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[Korrespondent] 21:59 In Belozerka, Kherson region, Russians dropped a munition from a UAV on a 12-year-old boy who was on the street - he is in moderate condition, OVA reported. Also, as a result of the enemy drone strike, three people were wounded in Antonovka. When medics arrived at the scene, the Russians struck again with a drone - a car was damaged, the medical team was not hurt. In addition, one person was wounded as a result of the Russian attack on the village of Zimovnik, another - in the village of Sadovoe, and another - in the Dniprovsky district of Kherson.
21:44 Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets reported that he urgently contacted the ICRC and the UN regarding the murder of a Ukrainian prisoner of war by Russians. According to him, a photo appeared online, probably of the body of a Ukrainian prisoner of war, whose head and limbs were cut off by Russians. "I would like to note separately that the current war is a hybrid one. By distributing similar photos and videos on social networks and committing such actions, Russia wants to intimidate Ukrainians - both civilians and soldiers," Lubinets noted.
The Office of the Prosecutor General reported that they had begun a pre-trial investigation into the violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder.
17:17 Romania plans to develop Neptune anti-ship missiles together with Ukraine after the war, the defense publication Army Recognition reports. Journalists note that Romania seeks to have Ukraine as an ally to control the waters of the Black Sea from its territory.
16:52 The Ukrainian Defense Forces have struck a submarine and an S-400 anti-aircraft missile system of the enemy in Crimea , the General Staff reported. According to confirmed information, on August 2, units of the missile forces, in cooperation with units of the Navy, significantly damaged four launchers of the Triumf SAM system. In addition, the submarine of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Rostov-on-Don was successfully hit in the port of Sevastopol. As a result of the hit, the submarine sank on the spot.
The B-237 Rostov-on-Don submarine is one of four Kilo-class submarines capable of using Kalibr missiles. The boat was commissioned on December 26, 2014, and on September 13, 2023, it was significantly damaged as a result of a Ukrainian missile attack. After that, the Russians carried out repairs to it in the waters of the Sevastopol harbor.
15:58 Russians attacked Pokrovsk in Donetsk region twice during the day - at least one person was killed and two were wounded, said the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
14:50 Eight more children have been evacuated from the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, the OVA reported. Since the beginning of the year, 162 children have already been returned from the Kherson region to the territory controlled by Ukraine. In total, more than 20 thousand Ukrainian children have ended up in the occupied territories.
14:26 Russians attacked Antonovka in the Kherson region with drones, four people are known to have been injured, OVA reported. Another person was injured in Kindiyka. In addition, a resident of Belozerka, who was injured during Russian shelling yesterday evening, asked for help today.
14:13 In the Zaporizhia direction, SBU soldiers destroyed a Russian heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A Solntsepek. The special service reported that during reconnaissance, the position of the system was recorded, equipped with a full set of ammunition and ready to strike. "After a bright fireworks display, the crew disappeared along with the entire installation," the SBU noted and showed a video.
11:49 GUR attacked a fuel and lubricants warehouse on the territory of the Atlas plant near the village of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in the Rostov region using 15 Obsidian-type UAVs of the Nayan project, Ukrainian media reported, citing intelligence sources. This warehouse supplied fuel and lubricants to Russian military units and subdivisions stationed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
10:27 The General Staff confirmed a Ukrainian strike on the Morozovsk airfield in the Rostov region. A hit was recorded on ammunition depots, where, among other things, guided air bombs were stored. Information about the destruction of enemy air defense systems and aircraft is being clarified. The Defense Forces also attacked a number of oil depots and fuel and lubricant storage facilities in the Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov regions. There is information about a hit and subsequent fire on at least two oil product storage tanks.
09:35 The General Staff reported that over the past 24 hours, the enemy attempted to penetrate the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defenses in the Toretsk direction 24 times in the areas of the settlements of Pivnichnoye, Toretsk, New York and Zaliznoye. A total of 123 combat clashes were recorded over the past 24 hours. Of these, 36 were in the Pokrovsk direction in the areas of Novoaleksandrivka, Zhelannoye, Vozdvizhenka, Ivanovka, Novoselovka Pervaya and Kalinovo, where the enemy attempted to displace Ukrainian units from the occupied lines.
08:58 Three people were killed in Donetsk Oblast as a result of Russian shelling on August 2: two in Yekaterinovka and one in Novogrodovka. Another eight people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:44 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and two were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:27 In the Zaporizhia region, over the past day, two people were injured as a result of Russian attacks on the Vasilievsky district, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
08:12 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 3:
- personnel - about 581,760 (+1170) people,
- tanks - 8406 (+4),
- combat armored vehicles - 16,238 (+27),
- artillery systems - 16,217 (+56),
- MLRS - 1135 (+1),
- air defense systems - 908 (+1),
- aircraft - 363 (+0),
- helicopters - 326 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 13,057 (+52),
- cruise missiles - 2410 (+3),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 21,926 (+54),
- special equipment - 2723 (+4).
07:43 Drones attacked different regions of Russia at night. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that air defense systems allegedly intercepted and destroyed a total of 75 drones, including 36 over Rostov, eight over Kursk, nine over Belgorod, 17 over Oryol, two over Ryazan regions, one UAV each over Voronezh Region, the Sea of ​​Azov, and Krasnodar Krai.
Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported that as a result of the attack, a tank at an oil depot caught fire. In the Kamensky District of the Rostov Region, the Atlas Rosrezerva plant was attacked, which specializes in storing oil products and, among other things, supplies oil products to the Russian army, Russian publics write. Rostov Region Governor Vasily Golubev stated that as a result of the massive UAV attack, "a number of warehouse facilities in the Kamensky and Morozovsky Districts were damaged."
In the Morozovsky district of the Rostov region, according to local residents, the Morozovsk military airfield was attacked. Judging by the detonation, an ammunition depot or fuel tanks are burning, Telegram channels report. In the Oryol region, two drones hit a residential building in the Bolkhovsky microdistrict, said Governor Andrei Klychkov.
07:24 Air defense destroyed 24 out of 29 Shahed-type attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. The drones were shot down within the Kherson, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr regions. In addition, at night the enemy struck with two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the occupied territory of the Donetsk region and two Kh-31P anti-radar missiles.
04:56 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Russian troops have achieved their long-standing tactical goal of reaching the O-0532 highway to cut off the Ukrainian land line of communication connecting Vuhledar and Konstantinovka in Donetsk Oblast. Russian troops have also advanced in New York and Zalizne, and an attempt to tactically encircle the Ukrainian Armed Forces is possible.
The Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the enemy has tactical successes in Zaliznoye and may already be trying to enter Toretsk itself, which is only 100 meters away.
03:58 In Vinnytsia region, during a night attack, a hit was recorded on an infrastructure facility, reported the first deputy head of the OVA Natalia Zabolotnaya.