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[NewsFrontInfo] 20:59 The UN is concerned about the continuation of "military operations" in the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The UN believes that the security perimeter around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant can be provided by the parties to the conflict in Ukraine themselves, the office of the Secretary General reports.
19:52 As a result of shelling suffere dfire station next to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.
18:55 The radiation background after the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant remains normal, said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region.
18:55 Five rockets flew into the area of the fire station near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the building of the Ministry of Emergency Situations was severely damaged, the authorities report.
18:02 The main thing from the statement of the head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region Yevhen Balitsky:
▪️The authorities of Zaporozhye have developed an action plan, up to the evacuation of residents, in the event of an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on a nuclear waste storage facility;
▪️The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant stores thousands of tons of radioactive waste;
▪️Authorities recorded at least three shell hits in the area of the radioactive isotope storage facility at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant per day;
▪️Kyiv deliberately aims at the nuclear waste storage facility at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in order to provoke the explosion of a "dirty bomb";
▪️Zaporozhye authorities are ready to receive the UN Secretary General and the IAEA mission, ensure their safety and present all the evidence.
18:00 Residents of Energodar report shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
17:49 Kyiv is trying to strike at concrete storage facilities at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, where thousands of tons of radioactive waste are stored - the head of the regional administration
17:24 Ukrainian troops strike at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant using MLRS and heavy artillery from the right bank of the Dnieper - the authorities of the region.
16:25 "Caliber" took off from the water area near the Crimea on targets in Ukraine
16:25 The Ukrainian authorities are going to announce the evacuation not only from Donetsk, but also from other regions.
"Mandatory evacuation from the Donetsk region is the first and so far the only one. But our forecasts and analyzes indicate that it will continue in other regions as well," said Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Irina Vereshchuk.
15:54 In the liberated Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region, regular Russian pensions will be paid instead of lump-sum benefits in August
Payments will amount to at least 10,000 rubles a month, that is, on average, twice as much as Ukrainian pensions, Oleksandr Saulenko, acting head of the civil administration of Berdyansk, told RIAN.
15:06 Ukraine copy the tactics of the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War -burns wheat fields in the south. This proves that the authorities have no plans to return to these territories. After all, they destroy everything - from food to infrastructure, just to worsen the lives of people in the liberated territories. Ukraine no longer considers their inhabitants to be their own.
14:04 In the territories controlled by Russia in the Kharkiv region, the Russian mobile communications operator MirTelecom, which had previously started working in southern Ukraine, has been launched.
13:59 Authorities of Zaporizhzhya expect to hold a referendum on joining Russia on September 11 - the head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky.
"Elections on September 11 are held in Russia on a single voting day, so far we are de jure not Russia. But we, of course, would like it very much," he said.
Balitsky also noted that holding a referendum in September depends on many factors.
13:59 The issuance of humanitarian aid will take place in the village of Terpenye, Melitopol district.
August 13, Saturday, volunteers of a public organization"South Young"with the support of the Ministry of Youth Policy of the Zaporizhzhya Regional State Administration, provisions and essential items will be distributed to disabled children, large families and single mothers.
In the near future, volunteers of the public organization "Yug Molodoy" will distribute humanitarian aid in other settlements of the liberated Zaporozhye region.
12:55 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:
▪️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation record mass desertion and unauthorized abandonment by nationalists in Ukraine of their positions;
▪️Aerospace Forces and artillery destroyed in a day a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons in the Kharkov region, a locator of the S-300 complex in the Kramatorsk region;
▪️Fighter aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter in the Dnepropetrovsk region;
▪️Aviation, rocket troops and artillery destroyed 20 brigade and battalion command posts, eight ammunition depots in a day;
▪️More than 50 percent of the personnel of two brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Artemivsk and Avdievsk directions were liquidated.
12:35 Kyiv's uncontrolled pumping of weapons has already led to a large-scale increase in their smuggling and appearance on the black market, including the shadow segment of the Internet, declared Ivan Nechaev.
He noted that, according to available information, law enforcement agencies in the EU countries “every month seize and return to Ukraine hundreds of automatic weapons and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition illegally coming from this country.”
The black market receives not only small arms, but also heavier weapons, such as missiles for the Javelin anti-tank system, Nechaev added.
11:26 The UK will give Ukraine three additional M270 MLRS in addition to the three already transferred, as well as a "significant" number of missiles for them, - the media, citing British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. He also said that Britain is very pleased with how Ukraine is using rocket launchers already provided by the West.
11:26 About 2,500 residents of Berdyansk in the Zaporozhye region received Russian passports, another 5,000 people are waiting for citizenship, said the head of the migration service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berdyansk Vasily Baranenko
10:34 One vessel with grain could not leave the Ukrainian Chernomorsk due to weather conditions. Loading operations in the ports of Ukraine continue. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of Turkey.
10:34 The Krasnoyarsk Territory is increasing assistance in the restoration of Sverdlovsk. It is planned to repair 51 objects by the end of autumn. According to State Duma deputy Viktor Zubarev, these are houses, schools, hospitals and other social facilities. The region will continue to provide assistance to Sverdlovsk and the Sverdlovsk region in the future.
09:06 In Novoalekseevka, Kherson region, near Crimea, hangars were on fire and equipment was blown up.
09:04 Consequences of shelling at Kushugum village near Zaporozhye.
09:01 Combat work of reconnaissance groups of the Airborne Forces in Ukraine.
During reconnaissance, the military discovered a stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The company commander decided to dismount from military vehicles and attack the nationalists. With fire from the BMVD and an anti-tank missile system, the paratroopers drove the radicals out of their positions /TK Zvezda/.
08:50 The Ministry of Defense showedpersonnelcombat work of the crews of Mi-28 multi-purpose attack helicopters of the army aviation of the Western Military District during a special military operation. In addition, on the eve of the Air Force Day, a festive concert was held at the airfield for the personnel. Video: Russian Ministry of Defense/TASS.
08:20 Summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
▪️Allied troops are concentrating their efforts on establishing full control over the territories of Donbass, holding the areas of Kherson, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions occupied by it.
▪️In the Kharkov, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk directions - shelling from artillery and tanks.
▪️The RF Armed Forces advanced near Grigorovka and Verkhnekamenskoye. Fighting continues in the area of Ivano-Daryevka, Vershina and Dacha. The Russians also conducted reconnaissance in combat near Yakovlevka and conducted assault operations near Bakhmutskoye and Zaitsevo.
▪️Russian troops are advancing in the directions of Maryinka and Pesok, the fighting continues.
▪️In the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions, shelling from cannon and rocket artillery, tanks was recorded. The RF Armed Forces are advancing near Pavlovka.
07:58 The West is spreading false information, passing off the movement of military equipment in the area of the Zaporizhzhya NPP as mining the facility - Vladimir Rogov, member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region
06:11 Farmers in the Zaporozhye region harvested 90 percent of grain crops. The harvested crop exceeds 1 million tons. Preparations for the sowing campaign are starting, the military-civilian administration of the region reported.
04:33 Missiles hit targets in Kharkiv and outside the city, the affected objects are burning
There were at least four explosions. The air defense forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine again failed to detect the approach of missiles and intercept them. The air raid roars in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions.
0:45 Explosions are thundering in Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region: powerful blows are being delivered to enemy targets and positions.