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[Korrespondent] 22:43 A state of emergency has been declared in Kursk Oblast, said the head of the region, Alexey Smirnov. He noted that the "complicated operational situation" remains in the border areas of the region. The Russian Ministry of Health reports that 31 people, including six children, were injured as a result of shelling in Kursk Oblast.
21:49 The latest escalation on the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation initially looked like a routine attempt by a sabotage and reconnaissance group to break through, as happened last year. However, everything turned out to be much more serious. Ukraine has not officially commented on the events in the Kursk region, but foreign media and independent analysts are talking about the development of an offensive by regular units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For more details, see the article Breakthrough Deep into Russia .
21:25 State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the US is "in contact with Ukraine" regarding the situation in the Kursk region. He also stressed that Ukraine itself is making the decision on how to conduct its operations. Miller added that Kiev has not warned Washington about any actions on Russian territory.
20:17 European Commission spokesman Peter Stano, commenting on the events in the Kursk region, stated that Ukraine, in accordance with international law, "has the legal right to defend itself, including by striking the aggressor on its territory."
20:10 During the day, Russians attacked Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region with artillery and kamikaze drones, as well as the Pokrovsk and Mirovsk communities - two people were wounded, said the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
19:39 The Russians have transferred the Pantsir-S1 air defense system to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, the publication Important Stories reports with reference to the station’s employees .
19:18 Washington will contact Kiev to "understand a little better" the situation in the Kursk region, said White House National Security Advisor John Kirby. At the same time, he emphasized that the US has not changed its policy regarding strikes on Russian territory: Ukraine can only strike with American weapons at the border area, from where Russia attacks, in particular, the Kharkiv region.
18:34 More than 95% of Ukrainian soldiers were tortured in Russian captivity, while in Ukraine prison camps comply with humanitarian law, said the head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Daniel Bell. "Prisoners are tortured during the first interrogation. They are beaten with metal rods and sticks, stripped naked, harshly beaten with electric shocks. It is terrible. Certainly, this is the worst thing I have seen in my 20-year career visiting prisoners on behalf of the UN. This happened to more than 95% of Ukrainian prisoners of war. This amounts to a war crime," she stressed.
According to Bell, information about the captivity of Ukrainian prisoners of war is most often collected during conversations after their return, while the monitoring mission has direct access to Russian prisoners of war and can assess the place of detention. "The Ukrainian authorities provide us with access to camps and temporary prisons for prisoners of war. In the first days there were some problems, but over the past year and a half we have observed conditions of detention that comply with the norms of humanitarian law of war," the head of the monitoring mission added.
18:05 Mandatory evacuation is underway in Sumy Oblast from 23 populated areas, said Volodymyr Artyukh, head of the OVA. According to him, we are talking about approximately 6,000 people, including 425 children. Artyukh noted that the situation in the region is quite tense, an air raid alarm has lasted for more than a day. "The many explosions that residents of Sumy and the region are hearing today are the work of our air defense, effective. There has never been such cover in Sumy Oblast," he added.
17:29 Putin gathered Belousov, Shoigu, Bortnikov and Gerasimov to discuss the situation in Kursk Oblast. Gerasimov stated that the advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces deep into Russian territory has been stopped, "the operation in Kursk Oblast will be completed by defeating the enemy and reaching the state border."
16:37 Russian military publics write that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have captured the Sudzha gas metering station in the Kursk region, which is located near the border. Now it is the only transit point for gas from Russia to the European Union via Ukraine.
16:15 Putin stated regarding the events in the Kursk region that Ukraine has undertaken "another large-scale provocation, conducting indiscriminate shooting."
15:26 The United States has warned Turkey of consequences if Ankara does not stop exporting American equipment to Russia that could be used for military purposes, the Financial Times writes. The publication notes that since 2022, Turkey has increased trade with Russia, despite the sanctions imposed on Moscow. The United States is particularly concerned that Turkey has become a key hub through which Western-made electronics, including processors, memory cards and amplifiers, enter Russia, and are then found in Russian missiles and drones.
14:41 The cause of death of Ukrainian prisoner of war Alexander Ishchenko, who served as a driver in the Azov regiment and recently died in a pretrial detention center in Rostov-on-Don, was a closed blunt chest injury due to "contact with a blunt object," as well as shock and multiple rib fractures, said Deputy Commander of the Azov Brigade Svyatoslav Palamar, citing the results of a forensic medical examination and a certificate of Ishchenko's cause of death.
13:59 On Tuesday, August 6, soldiers from the SBU Special Operations Center "A" carried out a unique operation - they shot down a Russian Mi-28 helicopter using an FPV drone over the Kursk region, Ukrainian media write, citing sources. The video shows that the SBU drone hits the rear propeller of the Russian machine:
13:28 Budanov
| …every time I see his name I read it as our own badanov… |
Budanov also stated that a rebellion in the Russian Federation like Prigozhin's rebellion requires a local leader, and one of them is currently in Ukraine: "If we talk about conditional rebellions of ethnic groups, a local leader is needed for this. There is a good leader, he is with us, but is gaining strength. Then we can talk about something."
12:45 The Russian Defense Ministry reported that fighting in the border areas of the Kursk region continued all night, "the enemy's advancement deep into Russian territory was not allowed."
12:26 Russian publics write that there were 20 Russians on board the Russian National Guard Mi-8 helicopter destroyed near Donetsk on July 31, all of them died. Forbes reported at the time that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had probably managed to shoot down a Russian helicopter in the air for the first time using a drone.
11:54 Zelensky signed laws extending martial law and mobilization for 90 days - until November 9.
11:28 In the Kyiv region, during a night drone attack, one person was injured as a result of falling debris, reported the head of the OVA Ruslan Kravchenko. In two communities of the region, 22 private houses were damaged.
10:46 The Russian Ministry of Health stated that 24 people, including six children, were wounded and injured as a result of shelling in the Kursk region. Russian war correspondents write that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are present in 11 settlements of the Kursk region to a depth of 15 km, the width of the front is 10-11 km.
10:35 In the Khmelnytsky region, during a night attack, as a result of falling debris, storage tanks and workshop premises of one of the manufacturing enterprises were damaged, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Tyurin.
09:59 Air defense destroyed all 30 Shahed-type attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. The drones were shot down in the Kyiv, Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kharkiv and Cherkasy regions.
09:13 On the evening of August 6, Russians struck the village of Kazachya Lopan in the Kharkiv region with a drone, one person was injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:06 In Donetsk region on August 6, 12 people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling: eight in Mirnohrad, two in Toretsk, one each in Ukrainsk and Markovo, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
08:59 At night, Russian troops attacked a residential area of ​​Kherson, one person was injured as a result of a shell hitting a multi-story building, OVA reported. Over the past 24 hours, one person was killed and 15 were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
08:44 GUR confirmed the Ukrainian operation on Tendrovskaya Spit in the northern part of the Black Sea. According to intelligence, on the night of August 6, a special forces landing group landed on Tendrovskaya Spit and destroyed enemy armored vehicles, in particular the MT-LB, an enemy electronic warfare system, and also destroyed Russian fortifications. During the battle, Russian troops suffered losses among their personnel, the exact number is being clarified. Having completed the assigned task, including its secret part, the military intelligence officers withdrew without losses, the GUR claims.
07:51 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 7:
- personnel - about 586,370 (+1230) people,
- tanks - 8429 (+8),
- combat armored vehicles - 16,323 (+29),
- artillery systems - 16,451 (+67),
- MLRS - 1138 (+0),
- air defense systems - 910 (+0),
- aircraft - 365 (+0),
- helicopters - 326 (+0),
- UAVs of operational-tactical level -13 212 (+54),
- cruise missiles - 2421 (+1),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 22,226 (+78),
- special equipment - 2759 (+21).
07:34 All emergency services in the Kursk region have been switched to an enhanced mode of operation, medical institutions are replenishing their supply of donor blood, said the head of the region, Alexey Smirnov. Meanwhile, Z-publics write that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have occupied the settlements of Nikolayevo-Daryino, Darino and Sverdlikovo in the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that air defense forces allegedly destroyed and intercepted 11 drones over the Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh and Rostov regions overnight.
07:19 In the Zaporizhia region, as a result of enemy shelling of the Pologovsky district, two people were killed and one was wounded, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
05:23 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports, citing geolocation footage, that Russian troops have advanced to Dostoevsky Street in Pivnichnoye (east of Toretskaya) and Gagarin Street in New York, Donetsk Oblast. At the same time, ISW does not confirm the complete capture of New York. The Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the enemy has advanced near Nikolskoye, in New York and Zhelannoye.
01:55 Footage of the destroyed Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber at the Morozovsk airfield in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation on the night of August 3 appeared on social media .