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Thursday, 28 November 2024, 19:33
Since the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia’s armed forces have seen an estimated 593,160 soldiers and officers killed or wounded in action in Ukraine, including 1,160 in the past day alone.
In the early hours of Tuesday, August 13, Ukraine’s Defense Forces intercepted 30 of the 38 Shahed-type kamikaze drones launched by Russia.
In the Vovchansk axis, air defense operators with the border guards’ Hart Brigade intercepted an incoming Russian killer drone of the Lancet type.
Over 900 days into the full-scale war, the Russian invasion army has attacked 1,646 Ukrainian healthcare facilities, fully destroying 215 of them.
The latest Russian strike on Chernihiv region targeted civil infrastructure sites.
Kyiv hosted a three-day training course organized by UNESCO and Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, dedicated to the protection of cultural heritage in the wake of Russia’s full-scale aggression.
The Security Service (SBU) detained an enemy informant in Donetsk region who is believed to have been tipping the Russians on the locations of Ukrainian defense lines in the Pokrovsk axis.
Ukrainian underground storage facilities are operating as usual with regard to the injection and withdrawal of natural gas, including by foreign traders.
The European Union is allocating EUR 2 million to finance a new humanitarian mine action initiative in Ukraine, which will be carried out by Ukrainian handlers with their highly trained dogs.
Russian invaders are transferring a large amount of military equipment from Crimea in the direction of the administrative border with the Kherson region.
Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsakhna, commenting on reports of a fire at the Zaporizhzhya NPP temporarily occupied by the Russians, said the risk of an accident at the site remains a “dire reality” until Ukraine regains control of the facility.
In the temporarily occupied city of Mariupol, 90% of buses are in poor technical condition, according to the National Resistance Center.
12 August 2024
Ukraine needs appropriate permits from international partners for the use of long-range weapons.
U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal from the Democratic Party and Lindsey Graham from the Republican Party have called on the White House to lift all restrictions on Ukraine's use of U.S.-made weapons for strikes deep inside Russia.
Russian forces have struck Toretsk and Kostiantynivka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, killing two people and leaving one wounded.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham from the Republican Party believes that Ukraine's operation in Russia's Kursk region is "bold, brilliant and beautiful."
One more civilian has been injured in a Russian attack on Kherson.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia brought war to other countries and now the war is coming home.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with a U.S. Senate delegation led by Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal and thanked the United States for supporting Ukraine's defense.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine discussed with representatives from the U.S. Office of Inspector General specific measures to increase the effectiveness of utilization of international security assistance to ensure the required capabilities of the Armed Forces.
During the second quarter of 2024, the state and state-guaranteed debt of Ukraine increased by UAH 243.7 billion in hryvnia equivalent, and by $1.1 billion in dollar equivalent. At the same time, since the beginning of the year, the cost of debt servicing has dropped by over 10%.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, where he heard a report from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, on the ongoing raid in Kursk region.
Russia has likely already spent up to $211 billion to directly finance the illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Currently, the Armed Forces of Ukraine control about 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory.
A mine action training course has been launched in Ukraine, engaging those affected by explosive items.
The Security Service of Ukraine warns that Russia’s security agencies may soon resort to staging war crimes, in particular, against the civilian population in Kursk region, in order to accuse the Ukrainian side.
Italy and Switzerland intend to cooperate in creating conditions for a second Peace Summit involving all parties, including Russia.
French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu had a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov to discuss, in particular, the latest battlefield developments.
During a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the acting governor of Russia’s Kursk region, Aleksey Smirnov, said the Armed Forces of Ukraine currently control 28 settlements in the region.