One missile strike was destroyed but probability of airstrikes remains high, says general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces
Russian troops launched five missile strikes today, killing at least one person, the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said in its daily roundup.
In addition to the missile strikes – one of which was destroyed – Russian troops conducted 24 airstrikes and fired about 37 shelling jets at Ukrainian troops and settlements, destroying residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.
“The probability of missile and airstrikes throughout Ukraine remains high,” the general staff said.
Russian troops launched five missile strikes today, killing at least one person, the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said in its daily roundup. In addition to the missile strikes – one of which was destroyed – Russian troops conducted 24 airstrikes and fired about 37 shelling jets at Ukrainian troops and settlements, destroying residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.
The US imposed new sanctions on Friday on four “prominent members of Russia’s financial elite”, the US treasury department said in a statement.All four have served on the supervisory board of the Alfa Group Consortium, one of the largest financial and investment conglomerates in Russia.
At least 499 children have been killed so far in Russia’s invasion Ukraine, with 1,097 injured, the Ukraine prosecutor general’s office said today. The prosecutor general’s office, which is tasked with tallying Russia’s war crimes, counted at least 81 new crimes registered this week alone, bringing the total to 102,849.
One child killed today was eight-year-old Volodia, who succumbed to his injuries after after Russian troops fired four Kinzhal missiles towards the airfield in the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. He was in the second grade at a local school, where his teacher described him as “a little comedian” for his cheerful demeanour and constant jokes.
Russian media is reporting that the Kremlin is considering closing some or all Moscow airports as Kyiv continues its drone attacks on the Russian capital.
Repairs to the Chonhar Bridge that links Crimea to Kherson will take at least a month, according to the Russian-imposed acting governor of the occupied portion of Kherson.
Russian authorities have taken Ukrainian teenagers from occupied territories of the country to a military education camp in Russia, where they received military training, Ukraine’s Centre of National Resistance said.
The State Border Guard Service have stopped a number of Ukrainian men attempting to leave the country, apparently to avoid conscription in the continuing war with Russia. In Odesa, border guards found two Ukrainian men of military age hiding in a secret compartment under the passenger seat of a vehicle. They had paid two Moldovan citizens $4,500 each to get them over the border to Moldova. In the Berehove district in the Zakarpattia oblast in the western part of the country, border guards stopped a vehicle in which four men had paid smugglers a fee of $4,000 each to cross the border into Romania.
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister, vowed that any Taurus cruise missile supplied to Kyiv would be used only within Ukrainian borders. This has been a point of contention between Kyiv and its western allies: Kyiv has been asking for Taurus cruise missiles, a missile with a range of more than 300 miles (500km), but nations such as Germany have balked at the request, fearful over the weapon’s long range.
Kyiv has been asking its western allies to provide Taurus cruise missiles, a missile with a range of more than 300 miles (500km) that is launched from fighter jets such as the Tornado, the F-15 and the F-18.
Nations such as Germany have balked at the request, fearful over the weapon’s long range. Today, Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister, vowed that any Taurus cruise missile supplied to Kyiv would be used only within Ukrainian borders.
Long-range missiles have proved crucial. This is why Taurus and ATACMS are essential for Ukraine's success, and we ask partners to provide them as soon as possible. Both will be used solely inside our borders. The longer the missile range, the shorter the war.
At least 499 children have been killed so far in Russia’s invasion Ukraine, with 1,097 injured, the Ukraine prosecutor general’s office said today.
The prosecutor general’s office, which is tasked with tallying Russia’s war crimes, counted at least 81 new crimes registered this week alone, bringing the total to 102,849.
#RussianWarCrimes statistics for the past week: August 4 – 11, 2023. 1 081 new crimes registered. At least 499 children killed, 1 097 injured (the data without full consideration of places of active hostilities). pic.twitter.com/swfdkxAVrT
Russian media is reporting that the Kremlin is considering closing some or all Moscow airports as Kyiv continues its drone attacks on the Russian capital.
Russian media say that the Kremlin regime is thinking of closing some or even all Moscow airports "for several weeks with subsequent prolongation" due to the terrorist threat (drones and, allegedly, in the short term, the possibility of strikes by long-range missiles from Sumy…
Russian troops launched five missile strikes today, killing at least one person, the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said in its daily roundup.
In addition to the missile strikes – one of which was destroyed – Russian troops conducted 24 airstrikes and fired about 37 shelling jets at Ukrainian troops and settlements, destroying residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.
“The probability of missile and airstrikes throughout Ukraine remains high,” the general staff said.
The attacks on Zaporizhzhia this week killed two young musicians who organised street performances to raise funds for the Ukrainian armed forces.
“Our talented girls, Svitlana Siemieikina and Kristina Spitsyna, were killed as a result of a missile attack by Russian terrorists in Zaporizhzhia,” the Matviyivka Village Centre for Culture and Leisure said in a statement.
“Yesterday they were singing and playing together for people, and today none of them are there. A Russian missile mercilessly took their voice, their lives and, with it, a piece of the soul of each of us.”
"Yesterday they sang and played together for people, and today they are gone"…
Another painful loss for our country 💔.
Eternal memory to the young musicians.
The Humanitarian and Information Policy Committee pic.twitter.com/sxfquj2o9C
In Kyiv today, civilians took part in the final stage of a five-day national resistance training course, gaining rifle training as well as learning the basics of mine and explosive safety.
The US imposed new sanctions on Friday on four “prominent members of Russia’s financial elite”, the US treasury department said in a statement.
All four have served on the supervisory board of the Alfa Group Consortium, one of the largest financial and investment conglomerates in Russia.
Petr Olegovich Aven is the chair of the board of a Russia-based insurance company and is a member of the supervisory board of the Alfa Group. He was put under sanctions for operating or having operated in the financial services sector of the Russian Federation economy.
Mikhail Maratovich Fridman, founder of the Alfa Group and chair of a Russian Association of Employers the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) committee is being put under sanctions for operating or having operated in the financial services sector of the Russian Federation economy. Fridman is also under sanctions for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the RSPP, which is Russia-based organisation involved in the technology sector of the Russian Federation economy.
German Borisovich Khan, a member of the supervisory board of the Alfa Group chair of the board of a Russian company engaged in construction activities, is under sanctions for operating or having operated in the financial services sector of the Russian Federation economy. Khan was also under sanctions for operating or having operated in the construction sector of the Russian Federation economy.
Alexey Viktorovich Kuzmichev, a member of the supervisory board of the Alfa Group, was placed under sanctiions for operating or having operated in the financial services sector of the Russian Federation economy.
The eight-year-old boy killed today after Russian troops fired four Kinzhal missiles towards the airfield in the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast was named Volodia. He was in the second grade at a local school, where his teacher described him as “a little comedian” for his cheerful demeanour and constant jokes.
A spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force, Yurii Ihnat, said that Russian troops were targeting Ukrainian pilots going to Europe for training. Instead, they hit Volodia’s home, a civilian home where three children lived.
This is Volodia, 8, who died today as a result of a Russian missile attack on Ivano-Frankivsk. He received numerous shrapnel wounds and died in hospital. The boy was a second-grade student at a local school. His teacher called him a little comedian because he was cheerful and… pic.twitter.com/X9Mkitg4F1
The State Border Guard Service have stopped a number of Ukrainian men attempting to leave the country, apparently to avoid conscription in the continuing war with Russia.
In Odesa, border guards found two Ukrainian men of military age hiding in a secret compartment under the passenger seat of a vehicle. They had paid two Moldovan citizens $4,500 each to get them over the border to Moldova.
In the Berehove district in the Zakarpattia oblast in the western part of the country, border guards stopped a vehicle in which six men of military age were traveling. Two of the men told the border guards in an interview that they were acting as smugglers, and had agreed to help the other four cross the border into Romania for a fee of $4,000 each.
Men between the ages of 18 and 60 have been forbidden to leave Ukraine in case they are needed in the fight against the Russian invasion.
Russian authorities have taken Ukrainian teenagers from occupied territories of the country to a military education camp in Russia, where they received military training, Ukraine’s Centre of National Resistance said.
The Gvardeets military-patriotic camp opened in the Russian town of Penza on 1 August, the centre said. Since then, teenagers from Mariupol, Kirovske, Yenakieve, Horlivka, Shakhtarsk, Makiivka and Donetsk were taken here, where they participated in excursions to propaganda museums and attended performances by pro-Kremlin artists.
Working groups under the Donetsk regional military administration have come up with 324 steps needed for returning Ukrainian power to the regions that have been under Russian occupation since 2014, Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration said today.
The steps focus on security, mining, restoration of power and vitality systems, and information impact, to economic development.
Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014. Ukraine has been adamant that the peninsula remains a part of its territory.
The working groups developed their plan based on the work that took place when Ukraine retook other Russian-occupied territories in the north, Kyrylenko said. “We already have a strong foundation of the great work of returning Ukraine to our Russian-torn lands,” he said.
324 практичні кроки з повернення української влади на території, які з 2014 року перебувають під російською окупацією, напрацювали робочі групи Донецької обласної військової адміністрації.
Докладніше дивіться за посиланням: https://t.co/qeNCtIWar4 pic.twitter.com/0wr0QCyOUV
The Russian-imposed acting governor of the occupied portion of Kherson has said that repairs to the Chonhar Bridge that links Crimea to Kherson will take at least a month.
Interfax in Russia quotes Vladimir Saldo as saying on the Rossiya-24 TV channel: “The estimated recovery time is at least a month, or even up to two months, the work will continue.”
Saldo said there were technical difficulties in the repair process, and that both military and civilian engineers were looking for a faster solution, according to the report.
The bridge was damaged by a Ukrainian strike on 6 August.
Suspilne News reports on Telegram that the spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force, Yurii Ihnat, has said Russian troops fired four Kinzhal missiles towards the airfield in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, targeting Ukrainian pilots soon to go to Europe for training. An eight-year-old boy died in the attack.
Here are some of the latest images from the news wires from Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Moscow.
A spokesperson for Ukrainian military intelligence told Kyiv Post that people living in Moscow should expect more attacks and that Russia’s air defences appeared incapable of protecting the country’s citizens.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissed all regional heads of Ukrainian military recruitment during a meeting of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.
An eight-year-old boy has been killed in a Russian rocket attack in the Prykarpattia area of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast in western Ukraine. The rocket hit a civilian home where a family lived with three children.
The Russian defence ministry says 20 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in attacks in Kherson oblast.The claim comes after an artillery strike on the city of Kherson injured two civilians, a woman and a 44-year-old man, while a drone strike on Beryslav injured another man in the region. The regional governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said on Telegram that a 53-year-old man had been killed in the shelling of a high-rise building in the city of Kherson earlier on Friday.
The president of Belarus, a country that has been a staunch ally of Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, has said he wishes to maintain relations with EU countries – many of which have enacted sanctions against Belarusian officials and enterprises and industries.
Germany is in talks over the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, Reuters reports.
Kyiv has been pushing Berlin for some time to supply the Taurus, a missile with a range of more than 300 miles (500km) that is launched from fighter jets such as the Tornado, the F-15 and the F-18.
Berlin has expressed reluctance over the weapon’s long range and its potential use against targets inside Russia.
A German government spokesperson said Berlin had no update to its position, but a security source told Reuters that Germany was in talks with the manufacturer MBDA about supplying the missiles to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian State Border Guard Service has destroyed a Russian forest hideout near Bakhmut.
Video posted by the State Border Guard Service shows a Russian soldier returning to a Russian dugout hidden in the trees before the area is hit by Ukrainian ordnance.
“The enemy set up camouflaged positions in the forest on one of the Bakhmut flanks,” the agency said in a statement. “In order to clear the forest massif from the enemy’s fortifications, the mortar fire of the border guards received the firing task.”