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2023-08-31 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: August 30th, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
23:28 Russia and the DPRK have "seriously advanced" on the issue of arms supplies, said John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council. According to him, representatives of the Russian Federation and the DPRK are constantly discussing possible agreements in the defense sphere - in particular, Moscow wants to receive from Pyongyang "raw materials that will help the Russian military-industrial complex."
23:17 The winner of the first round of debates between the contenders for the US presidency from the Republican Party unexpectedly became a relatively little-known candidate, a millionaire of Indian origin Vivek Ramaswami. Read more about him in the material Candidate v. Ukraine .
22:39 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Ukraine is negotiating the supply of new air defense systems: "Now is not the time to talk publicly about the details, but negotiations are underway with our various partners on additional air defense systems. Step by step we are bringing this success closer to Ukraine" .
22:14 "Head" of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov said that the air defense allegedly shot down a cruise missile in the eastern part of Crimea. Residents of Feodosia report explosions. And the governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said that two "Ukrainian UAVs" were shot down over the Bryansk region. Telegram channels write about a fire in the area of the television center.
20:56 Zaluzhny said that he had a telephone conversation with the Chief of the Danish Defense Staff Flemming Lentfer: "The focus is on the training of Ukrainian pilots and engineers on the F-16, which is taking place in Denmark. General Lentfer said that some of our pilots have already successfully completed preparatory measures and can begin flight training. In addition, we agreed with Danish partners to begin work on logistics to ensure the maintenance and repair of F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine."
20:52 During the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the police received more than 93,000 phone calls from Ukrainians who were sexually abused by the Russian military, Sergey Nezhinsky, adviser to the Office of Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishina, said in an interview with Ukrainian Radio. According to him, more than 200 cases were verified by the Office of the Prosecutor General and submitted to the court.
20:47 Germany has handed over another package of military assistance to Ukraine, which includes ten Leopard 1A5 tanks, one TRML-4D radar, 16 Vector unmanned reconnaissance systems, four HX81 tank transporters and more than 13 million small arms ammunition, the country's government said.
20:18 The talks about strengthening mobilization in Ukraine were followed by proposals with concrete steps. People's deputy and presidential representative in the Verkhovna Rada Fyodor Venislavsky believes that only those who receive a first higher education, and not a second or third, should receive a deferment from mobilization. Venislavsky also named the main abuses for evading mobilization. Read more in the material New changes in mobilization .
19:54 The Russians have installed barges south of the Kerch bridge, which should become a barrier against Ukrainian sea drones, Radio Liberty reports. The barges are not flooded, as previously thought, but are most likely anchored in one place.
19:29 More than 70 representatives of foreign states took part in the seventh meeting with diplomats on the Formula of Peace, the Office of the President reported. The meeting was dedicated to the item of the Formula "Food security" and was held on the territory of the enterprise - the manufacturer of bread in the Kyiv region, which suffered from one of the Russian rocket attacks.
19:23 A number of Ukrainian media outlets reported, citing sources in the SBU, that yesterday Ukrainian drones hit the "electoral district" in Kamenka-Dniprovska, Zaporizhia region, in several waves yesterday, at the moment when a meeting of "chairmen of precinct election commissions" was being held there. More than 30 collaborators, guarded by Kadyrov's men, gathered for the event, many of the wounded are known.
In Russia, the blow was confirmed: the "director" of the House of Children's Creativity Larisa Stelmashchuk told the propaganda media that during the attack by Ukrainian drones, "80 children who returned from Crimea" were supposed to be near the building.
19:11 743 people were evacuated from the dangerous communities of the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, including 170 children, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said. About 11 thousand people remain in Kupyansk and the surrounding communities, which are constantly under shelling. Among the priority tasks is the removal of families with children.
The Kupyansk District State Administration announced that from September 1, the curfew on the territory of the Dvurechenskaya village, Kondrashevskaya rural, Kupyanskaya city, Kurilovskaya rural, Petropavlovsk rural territorial communities will operate from 18:00 to 06:00, and on the territory of Veliko Burluks rural, Shevchenko village, Olkhovatskaya rural territorial communities - from 20:00 to 06:00.
19:05 Zelensky announced that he had held a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, the topic was military medical commissions. It was decided to conduct a comprehensive review of the validity of the decisions of the IHC regarding disability and unfitness for military service, which were taken in the period from February 24, 2022 and may be related to corruption violations. Based on the results of the check, conclusions will be drawn about those who, on the basis of falsified decisions of the VVK, went abroad during this time.
Also, according to the decision, in all regions of Ukraine, the full expansion of the work of the IHC to civilian medical institutions should be ensured. In addition, it is planned to complete the process of full digitalization of all the work of the IHC, to revise the system for determining fitness for military service in order to give commanders more opportunities to involve military personnel in the performance of tasks and make it impossible to manipulate the concept of limited fitness.
The Cabinet of Ministers was instructed to ensure an appropriate level of efficiency in the work of the VVK, the barrier-free nature of all components of its work and the involvement of professional personnel. Law enforcement officers will continue to check the IHC system and clear it "of those who use their positions against the security and defense of our state."
18:49 The Russian Foreign Ministry has proposed an "optimal" alternative to the grain agreement: to supply Turkey with 1 million tons of Russian grain for further processing and shipment to countries in need. Foreign Ministers of Russia and Turkey Sergey Lavrov and Hakan Fidan plan to discuss the details of the initiative and the possibility of its implementation at a meeting.
18:20 Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur called on the EU to expedite the supply of ammunition to Ukraine. According to him, out of the promised million, only 226,000 shells have been delivered so far. Pevkur noted that Ukraine produces about 6,000 rounds a day, while Russia produces 60,000 to 70,000 rounds on peak days.
17:51 Borrell proposed the creation of a fund to support Ukraine for the period 2024-2027 with a volume of 5 billion euros per year, "to ensure the reliability of our military assistance." According to the diplomat, this fund will be linked to the European Peace Fund and should become "a fundamental element of our long-term contribution to the security of Ukraine, as agreed by European leaders in June."
Borrell also said that this year the EU should train 40,000 Ukrainian troops. He noted that 25,000 Ukrainian soldiers had already been trained as part of the mission, and by the end of October their number would reach 30,000.
17:37 A batch of OTRK Iskander-M has arrived in Belarus from Russia, the monitoring group of Belaruska Gayun reports. According to her, a train with at least ten OTRK units arrived at the Osipovichi station in the Mogilev region from the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation. These missile systems have already entered service with the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, and this echelon is not the last to arrive in Belarus.
16:59 Poland will launch on its territory the production of components for American F-16 fighters, Janusz Zakretsky, director of the PZL Mielec plant, said. According to him, the company plans to produce 70-80% of the fighter hull structure by the end of next year.
16:26 Bild military analyst Yulian Repke claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine broke through the fortifications of the Surovikin Line near Rabotino in the Melitopol direction. We are talking about a line of concrete "dragon's teeth" in the direction of Verbovo. The analyst added that the “dragon's teeth” held back the Ukrainian military for only about a day.
16:17 The Netherlands and Romania have agreed on the creation of a training center for F-16 pilots and maintenance of these aircraft, the Dutch Ministry of Defense said. The base will be located on the territory of Romania. The American aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin will be involved in its work. First, instructors for pilots and technical personnel will be trained at the base, and then they will train the Ukrainian military.
15:35 Orban said that the West should conclude an agreement with Putin, which will not include the return of the occupied Crimea and Ukraine's membership in NATO. He also believes that the best way to achieve peace is to end military support for Ukraine. Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko reacted to this: “We don’t know how it is in Hungary, but Ukraine does not trade either its territories or its sovereignty. And the world will not trade. responsibility for all the evil done to Ukrainians."
14:56 More than 20,000 Ukrainian soldiers have already been trained at the British training grounds, the General Staff said. Before the exercises, everyone receives everything they need - from summer and winter uniforms and shoes to tactical glasses and gloves, first aid kits, sleeping bags, etc. The volume of support from the UK has already exceeded 2.3 billion pounds.
14:07 Kuleba, in his speech at the conference of French ambassadors, told how a group of 31 fighters made it possible to release Rabotino, the Foreign Ministry reports. According to Kuleba, for several months one Ukrainian unit conducted continuous assaults on this sector of the front, but due to exhaustion and losses, at some point it lost its combat capability, after which radical decisions were made - the leadership was changed in the unit.
The new commander asked to gather the most motivated fighters. A consolidated group of 31 fighters was created, a third of whom had no combat experience. In 18 hours, the group members “creeped literally on their stomachs kilometers of minefields, where the Russians laid six mines for every square meter. Finally, the unit reached the “landing”, drove the Russians out of there and held this position for two days until reinforcements arrived.
This group then walked another 10 km through the minefields. In total, in 40 days they carried out six assaults and two reconnaissance, doing the work of a whole battalion. Of the casualties, seven were wounded, of which only one was severe, who stepped on a mine. “In fact, the work of this group made it possible for an entire brigade to attack Rabotino and liberate it after weeks of assaults. After securing on its flanks, we open the way to Tokmak and, in the end, Melitopol and the border with Crimea,” the minister said.
13:23 Peskov said that Putin "constantly and promptly" receives all the information "about the special operation and massive drone attacks." Commenting on the attack on Pskov, the Kremlin speaker noted that military experts "are working, finding out routes to take measures to prevent such attacks."
12:36 On the night of August 30, Russia was massively attacked by unknown drones. The explosions took place at the Pskov airport, which is located 700 km from the border with Ukraine and much closer to Estonia and Latvia. UAVs also attacked the Moscow, Oryol, Bryansk, Ryazan and Kaluga regions, and the Crimea was attacked by sea drones. Read more about what was destroyed in the article The biggest drone attack on the Russian Federation .
12:07 The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate Andrei Yusov, in a comment to Babel, confirmed the destruction of four Il-76 transport aircraft during a night drone attack on Pskov. The number of damaged aircraft is being specified.
12:02 In Kiev, catering establishments from September 1 will extend their opening hours by one hour - until 23:00, the mayor's office said, citing the decision of the Capital Defense Council.
11:48 Crimean publics report explosions in Dzhankoy. Local "authorities" claim that "scheduled destruction of ammunition" is taking place in the village of Volnoe.
11:16 At night, the Russians fired artillery from the territory of the Russian Federation on the Shalygin community of the Shostka district of the Sumy region. One of the shells hit a private house in the village. Svarkovo, one person died, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
10:42 The Atesh partisan movement stated that their agent blew up the election headquarters of United Russia in Novaya Kakhovka at 14 Pervomaiskaya Street on the evening of August 29. Three servicemen of the RF Armed Forces, who were responsible for protecting this object, were also killed. As a result of the fire, all the documentation that the invaders brought to the "elections" scheduled for September 8-10 burned down.
10:37 At the Pskov airfield, as a result of an attack by drones, two Il-76 aircraft were destroyed, four more were damaged, according to the Russian telegram channel Baza.
10:34 At night, the Russians attacked the settlements of the Donetsk region, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. As a result of hits on residential areas of Kurakhovo, seven people were injured. In addition, the Russian army fired on with. Bogatyr of the Volnovakha district (probably from the S-300 complexes). At the epicenter of the explosions was the territory of the farm, where two people died.
10:28 Ukrainian troops were successful in two directions on the southern front: Novodanilovka - Novoprokopovka and Malaya Tokmachka - Verbovoye, spokesman of the General Staff Andrei Kovalev said. In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces continue their offensive south of Bakhmut.
10:03 Kiev has modified Neptune anti-ship missiles to hit ground targets, and now they will be able to reach Moscow and other remote points of the Russian Federation, writes The War Zone, citing a representative of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. For the use of missiles against ground targets, a new guidance system was required, which did not previously exist. According to the publication, Ukraine has developed a new guidance system based on GPS.
09:40 On the evening of August 29, the pre-election regional headquarters of United Russia was blown up in Nova Kakhovka, Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said. According to him, there were no victims, but "the demonstrative action of not accepting the elections was successful." The Russians are trying to hush up the incident.
09:28 Governor of the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation Alexander Bogomaz reported a "pop" in the building of the investigative committee in Bryansk, no one was injured. He also claims that two "Ukrainian drones" allegedly tried to attack the TV tower in Bryansk, the attack was stopped by air defense forces, there were no casualties or damage.
09:24 In the Kiev region, during a Russian night attack, three people were injured as a result of the fall of fragments of rockets and drones, said the head of the regional police Andrey Nebytov. Damaged private houses, garages, cars.
09:12 The situation on the Eastern Front remains difficult, said Alexander Syrsky, commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the Kupyansko-Limansky direction, the most fierce battles are taking place in the areas of the settlements of Raygorodok and Kovalevka, where the Russian army is trying to break through the Ukrainian defenses using assault squads on armored vehicles. At the same time, the enemy is regrouping, bringing in new units from the territory of Russia.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy is trying to regain lost positions at any cost, counterattacking units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine several times a day, but the Defense Forces are gradually moving forward. In particular, intense fighting is going on in the areas of Bakhmut, Kurdyumovka, Yagodnoye, Andreevka.
08:49 During the night, air defense forces shot down all 28 missiles and 15 out of 16 enemy drones , the Air Force command said. In particular, Russia fired 28 Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 air-launched missiles from 11 Tu-95ms strategic aircraft from the Caspian Sea and the Engels region. Also, 16 strike UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type were fired from the southern and northern directions (Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk). In total, 43 air targets were destroyed within the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Odessa and Nikolaev regions.
08:20 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed (in Bogatyr), eight more were injured. In the Kherson region, three people were killed, three were injured. In the Zaporozhye region, three people were injured as a result of artillery shelling of Kamensky. In the Kharkiv region in Kupyansk, as a result of the shelling of the building of a meat processing plant, one person was killed, one was injured, and another was wounded in the village. Druzhelyubovka of the Izyumsky district, according to the OVA.
07:53 In the Zhytomyr region, the enemy attacked one of the infrastructure facilities with kamikaze drones. Part of the UAV was shot down, the infrastructure object and the railway track were partially damaged by the wreckage of the downed UAV. There are no victims or injured, said the head of the OVA Vitaliy Bunechko.
07:49 In the Kiev region in one of the districts, as a result of falling rocket fragments, private houses were damaged, people were not injured. Also, debris fell on the territory of the local cemetery, the fire was quickly extinguished. In another settlement, a two-story building was damaged, rescuers are localizing the fire, the National Police reported.
07:34 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 30:
- personnel - about 262,410 (+570) people,
- tanks - 4423 (+9),
- armored combat vehicles - 8596 (+17),
- artillery systems - 5476 (+26),
- MLRS - 733 (+0),
- air defense systems - 500 (+0),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 4395 (+8),
- cruise missiles - 1419 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 7953 (+44),
- special equipment - 825 (+5).
07:19 Over the past day, 35 clashes took place at the front, the General Staff said in the morning summary. In particular, the Russian army unsuccessfully tried to advance in the areas of Novogorovka and Belogorovka in the Luhansk region, as well as Bogdanovka, Kurdyumovka, Ozaryanovka, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk region.
07:02 At night, the Russians massively attacked Kiev with drones and missiles. In total, more than 20 enemy targets were destroyed, said Sergey Popko, head of the KGVA. As a result of the fall of debris on the territory of the enterprise in the Shevchenko district, two people died, three were injured. There is also destruction and fires in the Darnitsky district - there the debris also fell on the territory of non-residential buildings.
The mayor's office clarified that in the Darnytskyi district a fire broke out due to the fall of debris on the roof of the commercial premises, in the Shevchenkovsky district - in the administrative building. In addition, another place where debris fell in the Shevchenkovsky district was discovered - there was a fire in an open area.
04:29 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced multiple attacks by drones. The department claims that the UAVs were destroyed over the Bryansk, Oryol, Kaluga, Ryazan, and Moscow regions. In addition, four high-speed military boats were allegedly destroyed in the Black Sea.
One of the UAVs shot down over Bryansk fell on the Kremniy EL plant - it is on the list of the largest Russian microelectronics enterprises. Previously, there is destruction, they write telegram channels.
02:34 A fire broke out at the Pskov airport after an UAV attack, Russian media reported, citing rescuers and regional authorities. Local publics also write that the Edelweiss plan has been introduced in Pskov, at least a dozen drones have attacked Kresty airport. It is also reported about getting into fuel tanks at the airport. The emergency services of the Russian Federation reported that as a result of a drone attack on a military airfield in Pskov, four Il-76 aircraft were damaged, and the Russian Defense Ministry later confirmed damage to two Il-76 military transport aircraft. In addition, the media report on a fire in the area of military unit 64044 in Pskov after a drone attack.
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