The missile Russia used in its strike on Sumy has been identified as a Zircon, according to Defense Express. This marks the 14th use of the hypersonic missile in the war, once again showing poor accuracy and a weak warhead. The launch was carried out from occupied Crimea, likely from the underground "Object-100" complex near Rezervne.
Same as all "hypersonic" weapons Russia uses. Cold war ballistic missiles fired sidewise and to make that happen they have to make engineering changes, like lighten the warhead.
What has China to do with any of this? Being Russia’s supplier is not enough to earn it a place at President Trump’s table.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Ukraine peace talks were in disarray on Wednesday after Russia effectively demanded Moscow and Beijing get a veto on any security guarantees.
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said Vladimir Putin had agreed to 'game-changing Article 5-like protections' for Kyiv when they met in Alaska last Friday.
European leaders raced to build on the momentum and hammer out the details – with Britain and France considering putting boots on the ground while America would protect the skies.
But yesterday serious questions arose over what exactly Mr Witkoff had secured as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow must be part of the security guarantees.
Putin's man also said these 'should be provided on an equal basis with the participation of countries such as China, the United States, the UK and France'.
Lavrov added: 'I'm sure in the West they understand that seriously discussing security issues without Russia is a utopia, it's a road to nowhere.'
He claimed the terms are based on those Moscow tried to force Kyiv into signing in Istanbul in April 2022, two months after their invasion. Those terms effectively meant none of the guarantors would be allowed to defend Ukraine from Russia unless they all agreed, including China and Russia.
Lavrov took aim at what he called Europe's 'clumsy attempts to change the position of the US President' in recent days.
He said: 'We cannot agree with the fact that it is now proposed to resolve collective security issues without the Russian Federation. This will not work.
'We will firmly and strictly protect our legitimate interests.'
That suggests the Kremlin has not moved at all on its maximalist position, with experts questioning what exactly Donald Trump's diplomacy had achieved.
John Foreman, ex-UK defence attaché to Moscow and Kyiv, said Mr Witkoff has been left looking 'inexperienced' and 'naive'.
He added: 'Trump and Witkoff misunderstood the Russians in Moscow and Alaska. They raised hopes about security guarantees and further talks, confused everyone, and the whole thing fell apart with Lavrov's intervention.
'Russia avoids sanctions for now. Putin remains immovable. Trump gave up his leverage and this is the result. What a fiasco.'
Marko Mihkelson, head of the Estonian foreign affairs committee, posted: 'Russia wants to be a security guarantor for Ukraine. Seriously? Russia can only be stopped by force, not by red-carpet summits.'
The development came as Mr Trump said Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky were 'in the process' of setting up a bilateral meeting but said: 'If necessary, I'll go.'
He added: 'I think it would be better if they met without me'.
Russia is pushing for Budapest as a location for a trilateral meeting with Mr Trump present – the venue where Ukraine agreed to give up nuclear weapons in 1994.
A White House official last night said: 'President Trump and his national security team continue to engage with Russian and Ukrainian officials towards a bilateral meeting to stop the killing and end the war.'
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With British and French troops on his border, Putin might be forgiven for wanting to know who will guarantee his security.
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Putin might be forgiven for wanting to know who will guarantee his security.
That would be Mr Geography. After getting punked by the Minsk Agreements, which Frau Merkel admitted were just a delaying tactic, the Russians are going to want something more defensible than words on paper or a line on a map.
Unfortunately for Ukraine, the two best spots are the narrow region over by Poland in the west, and the Dnipr river. An alternative would be a completely demilitarized Ukraine, a situation that seems unlikely.
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[LB] In total, 175 combat clashes took place at the front.
by Tetyana Boyarchuk
The 1274th day of the Russian Federation's large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun. In total, 175 combat clashes took place over the past day.
The General Staff reported this.
The enemy launched four missile and 82 air strikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements, using ten missiles and dropping 153 guided aerial bombs. In addition, it carried out 5,611 attacks, including 66 from multiple launch rocket systems, and used 5,610 kamikaze drones to destroy them.
Air strikes were carried out, in particular, on the areas of the settlements of Gremyach in Chernihiv region; Nova Sloboda, Chernatske in Sumy region; Kostyantynivka, Dobropillya, Ivanopillya in Donetsk region; Bilogirya, Prymorske in Zaporizhia region; and Odradokamyanka in Kherson region.
Over the past day, the Defense Forces' aviation, missile forces, and artillery have struck nine areas of concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment, two artillery systems, and one other important facility of the Russian invaders.
Seven combat engagements took place in the North Slobozhansk and Kursk directions over the past 24 hours. In addition, the enemy carried out 12 air strikes, dropping 26 guided bombs, and carried out 218 shelling of the positions of our troops and settlements, including nine from multiple launch rocket systems.
In the South Slobozhansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled five enemy attacks near the settlements of Vovchansk and Kamyanka.
There were six attacks by the invaders in the Kupyansk direction. The defense forces repelled the enemy's assault actions in the areas of Kindrashivka, Synkivka, Zagryzove and Stepova Novoselivka.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 33 times, trying to advance in the areas of the settlements of Zelena Dolyna, Kolodyazhi, Myrne, Torske, and towards Yampol and Hryhorivka.
In the Siversky direction, our defenders repelled two assaults by occupation troops near Pereizne and towards Fedorivka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, two clashes were recorded near the settlement of Oleksandro-Shultyne.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out ten attacks in the areas of Toretsk, Shcherbinivka, Yablunivka, and Poltavka.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 50 assaults by the aggressor in the areas of the settlements of Volodymyrivka, Mayak, Nykanorivka, Novoekonomichne, Chervonyi Lyman, Rodynske, Promin, Grodivka, Lysivka, Zvirovo, Udachnoe, Novomykolaivka, Horikhove, and Novoukrainka.
In the Novopavlivka direction, the Defense Forces stopped 28 enemy attempts to break through the defensive lines in the areas of the settlements of Hrushivka, Zeleny Hai, Temyrivka, Voskresenka, Zelenye Pole and towards Komyshuvakha.
Four clashes with the enemy took place in the Dnieper direction.
The enemy did not conduct active operations in the Hulyaipil and Orikhiv directions.
No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Polissya directions.
Our soldiers inflict significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupation forces and actively undermine the enemy's offensive potential in the rear.
In total, over the past day, the losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 920 people. Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized a tank, four armored combat vehicles, 50 artillery systems, 260 unmanned aerial vehicles of the operational-tactical level, seven missiles and 142 units of automotive equipment of the Russian occupiers.
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[NewsFront] 21:39 In the village of Rogovka, the launch site of the HIMARS MLRS was covered with “Geraniums,”video. 21:38 Posted footage of the destruction of the 122mm 2S1 self-propelled howitzer "Gvozdika" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Konstantinovka, DPR.
20:45 Flag of the Russian Federation fixed in liberated Novogeorgievka.
20:11 Footage of FPV crews working on Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment has been published, –video.
19:33 FPV drones calculations of the North group of forces destroyed camouflaged shelters and concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the Khar'kov direction.
18:55 Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee will investigating further crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which resulted in the death and injury of civilians in the Kherson, Bryansk and Belgorod regions, as well as in the Lugansk People's Republic
– According to information from executive authorities, three civilians were killed and another person was wounded in the village of Novaya Zburyevka in the Kherson region as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
– In the Bryansk region, as a result of Ukrainian aggression using FPV drones in the village of Novy Varin in the Klimovsky district, one civilian was killed and another man was injured.
– As a result of a strike by a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone in the village of Novostroevka-Pervaya in the Graivoronsky District of the Belgorod Region, a civilian was injured.
– In the city of Kremennaya, LPR, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV, the driver of a civilian car was killed and a passenger was injured.
18:20 Artillerymen of the "Center" group of forces provided advance of attack aircraft in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, destroying the enemy's UAV crew.
Direct hits from 152mm shells killed the drone operators and completely destroyed the enemy's shelters.
17:28 City of Novy Oskol was subjected to attack by a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone. There are no preliminary casualties.
As a result of the drone's detonation, a truck caught fire - the fire was quickly extinguished by the fire brigade. Information about the consequences is being clarified.
16:59 On the night of August 19-20, the Armed Forces of Ukraine undertook an attempt to carry out a sabotage operation in the Black Sea using landing craft in the direction from Odessa towards the Crimean Cape Tarkhankut.
The enemy's attempted sabotage operation was thwarted with the assistance of the Rubicon Center crews. At a distance of 72 kilometers from the Crimean coast, one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces boats was hit by a crew of the Lancet loitering munition. Reconnaissance and objective control were carried out by a crew of the Zala reconnaissance UAV.
16:24 Iskander OTRK calculation inflicted an attack on the temporary deployment point of the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Slavyansk region of the DPR.
15:20 UAV crews of the 56th Separate Special Purpose Battalion struck automotive equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
UAV operators of the "East" force group carried out precise strikes on an enemy tank and vehicles in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
Operators of strike UAVs of the special forces unit of the "Center" group of forces destroyed the infrastructure of unmanned aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
FPV drone crews from the Rubicon Center burned an enemy tank near the village of Novopavlovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
FPV drone crews from the Rubicon Center shot down high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the aircraft type in the SVO zone.
FPV drone crews from the Rubicon Center hit automobile and armored vehicles, elements of communication systems, positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and also rammed an enemy UAV in the SVO zone.
14:17 Around 12:40 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed one Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle of the airplane type over the territory of the Kursk region.
12:55 Summary of Ministry of Defense on the progress of the Special Military Operation as of 08/20/2025
Units of the North group of forces improved their tactical position. Manpower and equipment of the mechanized, airborne assault, ranger brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade and the border detachment of the border service of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Gavrilovo, Zhovtnevoe, Rudnevka, Sadki and Staraya Guta in Sumy Oblast.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Melovoe, Sinelnikovo and Udy in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 155 servicemen, a tank, five combat armored vehicles, 18 cars, and four artillery pieces. An ammunition depot and a supply depot were destroyed.
Units of the "West" group of troops have taken up more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of two mechanized, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defense brigade and a national guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Doroshovka, Novosergeevka, Olgovka and Senkovo in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 245 servicemen, a Leopard tank made in Germany, three Western-made combat armored vehicles, 18 cars and two artillery pieces. Six electronic warfare stations and six ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved the position along the front line, inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of three mechanized, airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Vasyukovka, Dronovka, Minkovka, Nelepovka, Fedorovka and Chervone of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 210 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, six cars, two artillery pieces, and an electronic warfare station. A warehouse of materiel was destroyed.
The formations of the mechanized, three airborne assault, and Jaeger brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two brigades of naval infantry, a territorial defense brigade, and a national guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volnoye, Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Kutuzovka, Lysovka, Rubezhnoye, Toretskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic and Filiya of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to more than 405 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, seven cars and three artillery pieces, including one of Western manufacture.
The manpower and equipment of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Dorozhnyanka, Zeleny Gai, Poltavka in the Zaporizhia region, Voronoe in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Aleksandrograd in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 220 servicemen, two tanks, ten vehicles, a Western-made multiple launch rocket system, a field artillery gun and two electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and three territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Belogorie, Primorskoye in the Zaporizhia region, Otradokamenka and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.
The enemy's losses amounted to 65 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 13 cars, four artillery pieces and eight electronic warfare stations. An ammunition depot and three supply depots were destroyed.
In the northwestern part of the Black Sea, the Black Sea Fleet destroyed two small-sized high-speed enemy boats.
12:15 Ministry of Defense RF:
– Units of the "Center" group of troops liberated the settlements of Suhetskoye and Pankovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
– Units of the "East" group of troops liberated the settlement of Novogeorgievka of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
11:01 Crews of the 122mm D-30 artillery gun of the Dnepr group of forces beat the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian stronghold was discovered by aerial reconnaissance. Its destruction allowed the attack aircraft to advance.
10:30 Information about the strikes carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Belgorod region over the past 24 hours:
In the Belgorod district, 10 drones attacked the villages of Dubovoye, Malinovka and Oktyabrsky, and the villages of Nechayevka, Otradnoye, Tolokonnoye, Chaiki, Cheremoshnoye and Yasnye Zori, of which four were shot down.
In the village of Cheremoshnoye, a communications infrastructure facility was damaged, and in the villages of Nechayevka and Chaiki, one private home was damaged.
In the Borisovsky district, the villages of Baytsury, Berezovka and Gruzskoye were attacked by 10 drones, one of which was shot down.
In the village of Baytsury, a private house and a commercial facility were damaged, in the village of Berezovka - a private house
In the village of Gruzskoye - a KamAZ, an outbuilding and two private houses, one of which was destroyed by fire.
In the Valuysky Municipal District, 16 drones struck the village of Urazovo, the villages of Borki, Dvuluchnoye, Dolgoe, Znamenka, Orekhovo, Sukharevo and Tulyanka, five of which were suppressed.
In the village of Dolgoe, a non-residential building was damaged, in the village of Znamenka - an outbuilding and a private house.
In the village of Urazovo - a commercial facility, in the village of Dvuluchnoye - two outbuildings and a car.
In the village of Tulyanka - a private house and an outbuilding.
In the Grayvoronsky municipal district, six munitions were fired during two artillery attacks and 12 drones were attacked, two of which were shot down in the villages of Dunaika, Zamostye, Lugovka, Mokraya Orlovka, Novostroyevka-Pervaya, Novostroyevka-Vtoraya and Spodaryushino.
In the village of Mokraya Orlovka, a civilian was injured as a result of an explosive device dropped from a drone on agricultural machinery. The man was hospitalized in serious condition in Belgorod City Hospital No. 2. A private house was also damaged by a drone strike in the village.
In the village of Dunaika, a power line and an outbuilding were damaged.
In the village of Zamostye, an enterprise building was damaged.
In the village of Novostroyevka-Pervaya, a gas pipe on the territory of an enterprise was damaged.
In the Krasnoyarsk region, the settlements of Bytsenkov, Krasnaya Yaruga and Prilesye, the villages of Vyazovoe, Grafovka, Demidovka, Kolotilovka, Nadezhevka and the Pervomaysky farm were subjected to six attacks, during which 23 munitions were fired, and attacks by 21 drones, three of which were suppressed. Information about the consequences is being clarified.
In the Shebekinsky municipal district, four munitions were fired and 22 drones were attacked in the villages of Voznesenovka, Malomikhaylovka, Murom and Novaya Tavolzhanka, 11 of which were suppressed.
In the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, as a result of a drone attack on the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God, a woman who was on the territory was injured. The victim continues treatment in the regional clinical hospital. The church was damaged. In addition, a private house and a summer kitchen were damaged in the village.
In the village of Murom, a car and seven private houses were damaged, one of which caught fire.
9:36 UAV 68 crews reduce the mobility of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region, –video.
9:03 Assault units of the 299th Guards Parachute Regiment of the Ivanovo Guards Airborne Unit of the Yuzhnaya Group of Forces improved position along the front line, occupied and cleared out the Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold west of Chasov Yar in the DPR.
8:40 Russian Armed Forces drones in Izmail hit where fires broke out in the port infrastructure, the local administration reported.
As the State Emergency Service clarified, the fire engulfed a fuel and energy infrastructure facility.
8:20 During the night of August 20, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 42 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
– 14 – over the territory of the Voronezh region,
– Eight – over the territory of the Tambov region,
– Seven – over the territory of the Kursk region,
– Five – over the territory of the Rostov region,
– Two each over the territories of the Bryansk, Oryol and Smolensk regions,
– One each over the territories of the Krasnodar region and the Lipetsk region.
8:00 Crews of 152mm Giatsint-B towed guns in cooperation with Orlan-10 UAV operators of the Zapad group of forces destroyed ammunition depots and concentrations of manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the area of the special military operation.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] A powerful strike by "Iskander" in Odessa: the position of the German IRIS-T SLM air defense system was destroyed! In the evening of August 19, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a jewel strike against enemy air defense in Odessa, near the Hydroport. The destruction of the German anti-aircraft missile system IRIS-T SLM has been confirmed. On the footage from the scene, there is a large-scale fire, a powerful detonation, everything indicates a direct hit to the air defense system.
According to intelligence data, the strike hit the IRIS-T SLM combat unit covering the southern coast and the water area of the port. At the time of arrival, there were: a launcher, a TRML-4D radar, a control and communication machine, as well as ammunition machines.
The result: one IRIS-T launcher was completely destroyed, the radar and command and control vehicle were disabled. There was a detonation of anti-aircraft missiles on the launcher. The complex is out of order.
Losses of the enemy - to recovery.
This umbrella provided air defense of the southern zone, covered logistics, warehouses and port infrastructure. Such effective strikes became possible thanks to the coordinated work of our intelligence and sharply increased technical capabilities: accurate coordinates, confirmation of visual identification and tracking of the complex's radar operation.
The destruction of even one IRIS-T SLM is a very tactical success. The enemy has left one of the key elements of the air defense system provided by Germany. Now the Air Force will not be able to effectively cover the airspace over the port area, and the air defense density in the southern direction is significantly reduced.
This once again proves the high efficiency of our army in the coordination of reconnaissance and strikes even in difficult urban conditions and in the event of attempts by the Armed Forces to hide Western weapons. Let's keep working! UPD: Loyal sources suggest that the catch is much fatter than indicated, the Patriot air defense system was redeployed to the Iris position, and the secondary detonation heard by local residents was the detonation of its launcher. Well done Khokhly rotation, successfully.
Also, at night, they took out the oil depot in Izmail. It burned well there until morning.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics A TYPE OF RETALIATION FOR HACKING "AEROFLOT".
Hackers broke the Ukrainian GS. Ukraine lost 1.7 million servicemen in the course of the SVO - these are killed and missing. Information — from the database of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was hacked by our hackers — mass media Over the three years of the SVO, the Ukrainian army lost 1,721,000 people killed and missing. 118,500 in 2022, 405,400 in 2023, 595,000 in 2024 and a record 621,000 in 2025.
A total of 1.7 million files — with full names, a description of the circumstances and place of death/disappearance, personal data, contacts of the closest relatives, and photos. The information was obtained as a result of a complex hacking of the PC and local network of employees of the Ukrainian General Staff by hackers from Killnet, Palach Pro, User Sec, Beregini https://t.me/Viking_SpN/3225 - zinc
In Ukraine, on this occasion, they traditionally cry "You lie, there are no losses". It is also worth noting that the Russian WarTears project, which calculates enemy losses according to its model, gave about 750,000. irreversible losses of the Armed Forces. It is also worth noting that according to the calculations of "Lost Armor", during the exchange of dead since the beginning of World War II, the ratio of exchanged dead was 5.45 to 1 in our favor. The enemy was given conditionally 5.5 times more dead than he was giving us.
The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine refuses to acknowledge the veracity of the data that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the beginning of the special operation amounted to more than 1.7 million killed and missing. This was reported on August 20 by the Center for Countering Disinformation under the NSDC.
“This is an absolutely absurd fake, since Ukraine <…> has never had a regular army of 1.7 million people,” the center’s Telegram channel says in refutation of information about the large losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The article also referred to a statement by the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, that the number of the Ukrainian army in January 2025 was 880 thousand people.
Data on the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the amount of 1.7 million servicemen was posted online earlier on August 20. The information was obtained as a result of hacking the database of the General Staff of the Ukrainian army by Russian hackers. They provided personal data of the soldiers, photos of their documents and dog tags of the dead.
The hacker group KillNet, which carried out a cyberattack on the base of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reported that they gained access to information through the work computer of the head of the logistics department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. It is known that he is in hiding.
[WarZone] In a new video, Ukrainian first-person view (FPV) drones are seen dodging fire and attacking several Russian radar stations in Crimea. A Russian Navy vessel is also seen being attacked off the coast of the occupied peninsula. The FPVs were launched by uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) before flying low over the water to reach their targets. They were operated by the Defense Intelligence Directorate’s (GUR) "Phantom" drone unit, the directorate claimed. It was the latest in a series of such attacks launched from USVs, also known as drone boats, that began in March.
[ZeroHedge] A Russian general has been seriously injured near the Ukrainian border, officials in Russia's republic of Dagestan - which is where he's from - have said, which is consistent with earlier reports sourced to Ukrainian intelligence.
Dagestan’s leader, Sergei Melikov, announced on Telegram that Gen. Esedulla Abachev was critically wounded several days ago in a border region. Regional media says he holds the honorary government-awarded title of 'Hero of Russia'.
"He is currently receiving care at one of the country’s top military hospitals," Melikov wrote, nothing that the general's condition is serious but stable.
Ukraine’s military intelligence had previously claimed that 57-year-old Abachev lost both an arm and a leg after his convoy was attacked overnight in Russia’s Kursk region.
He was rushed to a hospital in the Moscow area, the reports said, where military doctors carried out the emergency amputations.
According to background via Reuters:
At least a dozen Russian generals have been killed in the war that started with Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Abachev graduated from the Higher Tank Command School in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991. He received the Gold Star of the Hero of Russia for his role in combat missions during the current war.
Dagestani leader Melikov said he was the pride of the region, describing him as "a combat general and a wise commander who always tries to protect his personnel, sometimes neglecting his own safety".
Ukrainian sources say that Abachev was serving as deputy commander of Russia’s “Sever” (North) group of forces at the time of the attack - although the Russian defense ministry has not confirmed such details.
Video allededly shows "The result of the Ukrainian strike on a Russian military column in the Kursk region where it is likely that this is where Russian Lieutenant General Abachev was seriously injured."
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[Regnum] The new frigate Admiral Amelko of the Russian Navy is keeping US strategists awake at night. This was reported on August 20 by military expert Brandon J. Weichert.
The recently launched frigate Admiral Amelko of Project 22 350 strengthens the Russian Federation's defense capability at sea and underlines its desire to improve naval technologies, he wrote in an article for The National Interest (NI).
"Frigates like Admiral Amelko play a vital role in fleet defense, supporting amphibious operations and carrying out strike missions," Weichert said.
He added that the frigate project was laid down back in April 2019, but faced a number of problems due to sanctions pressure. Russian specialists were forced to independently develop engines that surpassed their predecessors in power.
Weichert also drew attention to the fact that the creation of the vessel and its full commissioning into the Navy will strengthen Russia's presence in the Indo-Pacific region. This is important in light of tensions with NATO and regional powers.
After the ceremonial launch ceremony, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Alexander Moiseyev told journalists that the Russian Navy had begun developing a promising ship designed for service in remote ocean zones. The technical specifications for the design have already been handed over to specialists.
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Dagestan’s leader, Sergei Melikov, announced on Telegram that Gen. Esedulla Abachev was critically wounded several days ago in a border region. Regional media says he holds the honorary government-awarded title of 'Hero of Russia'.
