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22:07 PMC Wagner mercenaries have already tried to enter Poland from the territory of Belarus, Pavel Yablonsky, deputy head of the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs, said. According to him, "the threat from Belarus is very real" and Warsaw is considering various steps, including the complete closure of the border.
21:13 Zelensky in the evening video message thanked the SBU, the Navy "and every soldier who restores justice and accustoms Russia to losses."
20:48 Russia today again massively attacked Ukraine with missiles. Zelensky said in an evening video message that the enemy used daggers and calibers, hit Motor Sich and the Khmelnytsky region. Some of the missiles were shot down.
17:36 The attack on the port in Novorossiysk for the first time threatened the export of Russian oil, writes the Financial Times. Novorossiysk is the main oil port of the Russian Federation on the Black Sea, exporting about 600,000 barrels daily.
16:57 Forced evacuation of children has been announced in nine other settlements of the Donetsk region, the Ministry of Reintegration reported. We are talking about Yampol, Zarechny, Torskoy, Opehovatka, Nikonorovka, Malinovka, Tikhonovka, Vasyutinskiy and Ray-Aleksandrovka. Due to the difficult security situation and enemy shelling, 130 children will be forcibly evacuated from there.
The Coordinating Headquarters also considered the issue of the state of evacuation of the civilian population from the Sumy region. At present, 1,718 people, including 228 children, have already been evacuated from the five-kilometer danger zone there. There were no people left in 21 settlements. Evacuation activities continue.
16:18 All 11 helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces left Belarus, most of which have been in the country since January 8 this year. According to the Belaruska Gayun monitoring group, they all landed at the Sescha airfield in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation. In addition, nine Su-34 and Su-30SM fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces took off from the Belarusian airfield Baranovichi, most of which have been in the Republic of Belarus since January 15. The fighters proceeded through the Mogilev region and crossed the border between Belarus and the Russian Federation.
15:51 In Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), consultations on Ukraine have begun with the participation of representatives of 40 countries, Al Jazeera TV channel reports.
13:33 Since August 4, Ukraine has declared the Russian ports of the Black Sea a zone of military threat - a corresponding notice is published on the website of the State Hydrography. We are talking about the water area of the ports of Anapa, Novorossiysk, Gelendzhik, Tuapse, Sochi and Taman. According to the report, the order No. 5 of the Naval Forces of Ukraine dated August 4 became the basis.
11:19 British intelligence notes that the Russian ship Olenegorsky miner, attacked the day before in the port of Novorossiysk, became the most seriously damaged Russian warship after the sunken cruiser Moskva. The department recalled that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this ship often transported military and civilian cargo from Russia to the occupied Crimea after the damage to the Crimean bridge.
Analysts called the attack on this ship a serious blow to the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, which had previously redeployed most of its units to Novorossiysk due to the high threat in Sevastopol.
10:31 Ukraine has identified the first group of eight pilots who will be trained on F-16 fighters, writes Politico. According to the publication, they are fluent in English and are ready to join the courses as soon as the official training plan is ready. Another 20 pilots are preparing for a language course in Britain starting this month. A total of 32 pilots were selected to participate in the program.
09:26 The head of the SBU, Vasily Malyuk, called the recent attacks by surface drones on Russian ships “logical”: “Any “bavovna” that occurs with the ships of the Russian Federation or the Crimean bridge is an absolutely logical and effective step in relation to the enemy. Moreover, such special operations are held in the territorial waters of Ukraine and are completely legal.So if the Russians want the "bavovna" to stop, they should use the only opportunity for this - to leave the territorial waters of Ukraine and our land, and the sooner they do this, the better for them. Because we will absolutely defeat the enemy in this war."
08:55 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, four people were injured, in Donetsk - one, according to the OVA.
08:12 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 5:
- personnel - about 249,110 (+620) people liquidated,
- tanks - 4232 (+4),
- armored combat vehicles - 8251 (+2),
- artillery systems - 4943 (+32),
- MLRS - 704 (+0),
- air defense systems - 466 (+0),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 311 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 4116 (+12),
- cruise missiles - 1347 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 7422 (+30),
- special equipment - 730 (+6).
07:23 Over the past day, 36 clashes took place at the front, the General Staff said in the morning summary . In particular, in the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces are holding back the enemy in the areas of Kleshcheevka and Kurdyumovka, in Avdeevsky they repelled attacks by Russian troops in the Avdeevka area, in Maryinsky they continue to restrain the enemy’s advance in the areas of Maryinka, Staromikhaylovka and Krasnogorovka. On the Mining direction, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to restore the lost position in the area of Blagodatnoye, on the Zaporozhye, he conducted unsuccessful offensive operations near Novopokrovka.
07:11 At night, residents of Kerch heard explosions, the "authorities" of Crimea announced the threat of an attack. Later, Russian media reported, citing the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center, that the Russian tanker Sig received a hole after a drone attack near the Kerch Strait, "there is no threat of flooding the ship, the crew is on the ship, no one was hurt."
00:31 Russia is trying to destabilize the situation inside Ukraine, using all possible resources, including religious institutions, Danilov said. According to him, the church has been actively used by the enemy in the past two weeks: “There are huge campaigns of discrediting, special operations are underway in the information space not only on the territory of our country, but also in the West. Unfortunately, religious institutions that are subordinate to RF".