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2024-08-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: August 16, 2024
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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.
[Korrespondent] 22:15 The Ukrainian Air Force lost a MiG-29 today, no one was hurt, reported Defense Ministry military correspondent Yuriy Ignat.
22:08 From August 19, entry to five settlements in the Belgorod Region will be closed, residents will be resettled, and help will be provided to remove property, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. He also said that residents of part of Shebekino and several villages in the Belgorod Region can go to temporary accommodation points or receive housing payments, the measure will be introduced for three months.
22:01 Russian military carried out an FPV drone strike on the Kutsurubskaya community of Mykolaiv region - three police officers who arrived to the village residents to document the consequences of the previous enemy attack by FPV drones were wounded, the National Police reported.
21:47 Zelensky said in an evening video address that the Verkhovna Rada "has been proposed a bill that can really guarantee that there will be no manipulation of the Ukrainian church from Moscow. This bill should work and should add conciliarity to Ukraine, our real spiritual unity."
20:59 Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk showed footage of the destruction of a bridge in the Kusk region:
19:38 Kursk Region Head Alexey Smirnov confirmed that the automobile bridge across the Seim River in the Glushkovsky District was destroyed as a result of a strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Meanwhile, Russian Telegram channels write that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are striking another bridge across the Seim - in the village of Zvannoye.
19:24 Ukrainian troops continue to advance in the Kursk region, today they have advanced 1-3 km in different areas, Syrsky reported to Zelensky. Also, according to him, the replenishment of the exchange fund continues, there are battles near the settlement of Malaya Loknya.
19:09 The Kursk operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been going on for ten days now, but so far one of its key tasks - to force Russia to redeploy troops from other parts of the front - has not been accomplished. The situation on the eastern front - in particular in the area of Krasnogorovka, Chasov Yar and other parts of Donbas - remains extremely difficult for Ukrainian forces. For more details, see the article The Ukrainian Armed Forces Are Having a Hard Time in Donbas .
17:52 The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a bridge over the Seim River in the Kursk region by firing several Himars missiles at the crossing, Russian publics write. According to them, one of the munitions hit a minibus with "volunteers" - two were killed, one was wounded. Telegram channels write that as a result of the destruction of the bridge, part of the Glushkovsky district is now cut off - this is Tetkino, Popovo-Lezhachi, Wolfino and about 27 other settlements. The civilian population can now only be evacuated by water.
17:31 Deputy Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh has again spoken about the possibility of "escalation" if Ukraine is given permission to strike long-range weapons on Russian territory. According to her, "the fact that Russia has not responded to something does not mean that it cannot or will not respond in the future."
At the same time, the Pentagon representative emphasized that it is not only the United States that provides weapons and defense capabilities to Ukraine, but also a coalition of partners. "We believe that the best way they can be effective on the battlefield is to combine these capabilities together and continue to push back Russian forces to retake their sovereign territory. That will not necessarily happen through long-range deep strikes inside Russia. And, of course, we are concerned about escalation," Singh explained.
17:18 In occupied Mariupol, they plan to place "refugees" from the Kursk region in "ownerless" housing, the city council reported. At the same time, thousands of families are still waiting for the compensation housing promised by the occupiers.
17:00 Russian troops are 6 km from Mirnohrad in Donetsk Oblast. 20,000 people remain in the city, said GVA Chief Yuriy Tretyak: "The line of combat engagement is currently approximately 6 km from the city of Mirnohrad. People are leaving, but not as quickly as we would like, as the situation requires. First of all, we are trying to organize the evacuation of children and elderly people who have difficulty taking care of themselves, who have problems with mobility." He noted that all people from Mirnohrad are planned to be evacuated by the end of August.
16:54 21 thousand people have already been evacuated from Sumy Oblast, the authorities are ready to evacuate another 25 thousand, said Interior Minister Igor Klimenko: "We are also talking about children. 70% have already been evacuated. We are currently taking a number of measures to explain to the population the need for evacuation. We are working together with the OVA, which determines the settlements and the number of people who need to be evacuated."
15:41 The "authorities" of occupied Donetsk announced an alleged Ukrainian attack on the Petrovsky district, where the Galaktika shopping center is located, 11 people were injured.
15:33 Journalists from the We-Ukraine TV channel visited Sudzha in the Kursk region and showed footage of a destroyed Gazprom gas distribution station. The journalists also spoke with local residents, who confirmed the good attitude of the Ukrainian military towards the Russians who remained in the city.
14:59 The head of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Markus Faber, called for increasing supplies of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, as well as starting supplies of Fuchs armored vehicles. Earlier, he stated that Ukraine could use weapons provided by Germany for its offensive on Russian territory.
13:21 The Russian Defense Ministry claims that Russian air defense allegedly repelled an attack by 12 ATACMS missiles on the Crimean Bridge tonight, "all missiles were destroyed."
13:16 The Cabinet of Ministers has clarified the requirements for summonses generated using the Unified State Register of Conscripts, Persons Liable for Military Service, and Reservists. In particular, assigning such summonses a unique electronic identifier in the form of a QR code. The mechanism for checking summonses, the status of summonses on a form and summonses generated electronically, and their legal force have also been defined.
12:29 Ukrenergo also warned of an energy deficit in the system next week: due to the heat, consumption may increase by 10-12%. "In order to cover such a level of consumption, it would be necessary to use an additional volume of capacity equal to the operation of several large power plants. Unfortunately, there is no additional capacity in the system. The Ukrainian energy system is still being restored after eight massive missile and drone attacks by the Russians, which they carried out from March to July 2024," the company noted and called for economical consumption throughout the day.
In the event of a significant increase in consumption, Ukrenergo will take all necessary measures to balance the energy system and compensate for the deficit, in particular, attract emergency assistance from European countries, and, if necessary, apply measures to limit consumption.
11:15 Ukraine may return to power outage schedules next week due to hot weather, Deputy Energy Minister Svetlana Grinchuk said.
10:48 As a result of the night attack on Crimea, a ferry crossing in the port of Kerch and a boat in Chornomorsk were damaged, reported the spokesman for the Ukrainian Volunteer Army South, Sergei Bratchuk.
10:34 Ukraine is free to use tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment donated by Canada at its own discretion, including on Russian territory, said the country's Defense Ministry spokesperson Andre-Anne Poulin: "Ukrainians know best how to defend their homeland, and we are committed to supporting their capabilities... Canada has no geographic restrictions on the use of the military equipment that we donate to Ukraine." According to her, Canada has donated eight Leopard 2A4 tanks, several dozen armored combat support vehicles and hundreds of armored patrol vehicles, as well as several M-777 howitzers to Ukraine.
09:22 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's Russian strike on the village of Prikolotnoye in the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region has grown to six, two people have died, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:17 In the morning, Russians shelled Tomina Balka in the Kherson region, one person was injured, OVA reported. Over the previous day, as a result of Russian shelling in the region, one person was killed, five were injured, including one child. Critical and transport infrastructure facilities, a humanitarian headquarters, a private enterprise, ten private houses, and a gas pipeline were damaged.
09:10 Z-publics write that another large column of the Russian Armed Forces has been destroyed near Korenev in the Kursk region. They claim that "exactly the same thing happened as near Rylsk" and blame the military command for this.
09:04 Three people were killed in Donetsk Oblast as a result of Russian shelling on August 15: two in Verkhnekamenskoye and one in Nikolaevka. Five more people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:56 At night, Russia attacked with three Iskander-M ballistic missiles, three Shahed-type attack UAVs and two unidentified drones. All drones were shot down in the Poltava, Zhitomir, Kirovohrad, Odessa and Nikolaev regions, the Air Force reported.
08:49 The General Staff showed the first hours of the operation in the Kursk region. "Demining, breaking through the border, destroying the enemy's defensive lines, the work of aviation, artillery, prisoners. The first hours of the offensive operation of the Defense Forces in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation on August 6, 2024. A day that will go down in the history of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Careful preparation, planning, surprise, fighting spirit and information silence became decisive at the initial stage of the operation," the General Staff said.
07:48 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 16:
- personnel - about 596,950 (+1330) people,
- tanks - 8496 (+12),
- combat armored vehicles - 16,461 (+35),
- artillery systems - 16,927 (+59),
- MLRS - 1159 (+5),
- air defense systems - 922 (+0),
- aircraft - 367 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 13,659 (+61),
- cruise missiles - 2429 (+1),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 22,848 (+73),
- special equipment - 2829 (+16).
07:07 The Russian Defense Ministry announced that air defense forces allegedly intercepted and destroyed five drones over the Black Sea overnight, and also destroyed two unmanned boats heading toward Crimea. Publics wrote at night about explosions and a fire in the area of Mount Mithridates in Kerch, and explosions were also reported in Simferopol. Some Russian monitoring channels claimed that eight missiles were shot down over the Crimean Bridge.
05:24 The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that Russian forces are maintaining a relatively high tempo of advance in the Donetsk region, demonstrating that the military command continues to prioritize advances in eastern Ukraine despite the Ukrainian Armed Forces' advance in the Kursk region. There is no sign of significant Russian forces being redeployed there.
01:58 The United States still does not want to give Ukraine permission to use long-range weapons in the Kursk region, but the reason is not a possible escalation, CNN reports, citing several officials. According to them, the issue is that the United States has a limited supply of long-range ATACMS missiles for delivery to Ukraine, so Washington believes that they are better used to continue attacks on Crimea.
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