Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:35 The Russian Defense Ministry reported that Ukrainian militants had equipped a stronghold in the ambulance building in Cherkassy. Approaches to it are mined, civilians were not warned about this.
Also, the ministry added that the units of the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were located in the building of a tuberculosis dispensary in the Nikolaev region. Everyone in the sick was expelled from the medical institution. The dispensary was equipped with a warehouse of weapons and ammunition.
19:23 The settlements of the Nikolaev region, which came under the control of the Russian military as a result of a special military operation, will be administratively attached to the Kherson region, said the deputy head of the temporary administration of the Kherson region, Ekaterina Gubareva.
18:20 According to the latest data, as a result of explosions in Novofedorovka, one person was killed and five people were injured.
18:01 Five people, including a child, were injured as a result of an emergency in the Saki region of Crimea. All had minor cuts from broken glass. After providing assistance, they were sent home, TASS reports with reference to the head of the Crimean Ministry of Health.
17:39 Smoke from a strong fire in Nikolaev. A few hours ago, local resources reported the sounds of an explosion in the city.
17:12 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Crimea reported that three people were injured in the explosions in Novofedorovka.
17:10 Aksenov: About 30 people have been evacuated in Novofedorovka from houses adjacent to the airfield, they will be settled in boarding houses and hotels. No one from the civilian population has yet turned to medical institutions for help.
17:03 A monument to Soviet soldiers at the Paulus cemetery in Estonian Tartu was desecrated by vandals. The monument is smeared with red spray paint.
17:00 Aksyonov announced that a five-kilometer perimeter had been formed around the airfield in Novofedorovka, from where evacuation would be carried out. A reasonable measure, given that after the secondary detonation of ammunition, they could be scattered around the district. To date, there are no confirmed reports of deaths or injuries.
16:52 Russian Ministry of Defense - about explosions in Crimea:
"August 9, at about 15.20, on the territory of the Saki airfield near the Novofedorovka settlement, several aviation ammunition detonated on a bunded storage site. No one was injured in the explosion. Aviation equipment at the airport was not damaged. Measures are being taken to extinguish the fire and find out the causes of the explosion. According to the report from the site, there was no fire impact on the bunded ammunition storage area at the airfield."
16:45 APU received 50 Turkish Kirpi armored personnel carriers, another 150 units of such military vehicles are expected.
15:56 Eyewitnesses report at least seven rocket attacks on objects in Crimea.
15:46 Arrivals in Crimea. According to military facilities in the Saki region. From the Ukrainian side.
15:20 Arestovich confessed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are hiding behind civilians. And that they are not going to go out into the fields to fight, since they will be killed there!
15:12 Neighbors of Ukraine decided to "pump" around the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. While Kyiv is shelling the ZNPP, Bucharest and Chisinau are scaring the population with radioactive contamination:
▪️The Romanian Ministry of Health is distributing free potassium iodide tablets to all citizens under 40 years of age. Those who are older obviously do not mind
▪️there are calls in Moldova to carry out explanatory work with the population and explain what needs to be done in the event of a nuclear catastrophe
15:07 The construction of a plant for the production of Bayraktar drones in Ukraine will take several months, the launch is possible before the end of 2023 - Ukrainian ambassador to Turkey.
13:50 Statements about the counteroffensive of Ukrainian troops on Kherson were part of an information and psychological operation, said Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky's office.
13:46 About 2/3 of the world community are neutral or pro-Russian positions on the conflict in Ukraine, said adviser to the head of Zelensky's office Podolyak
13:40 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine as of August 9, 2022. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
As a result of strikes by high-precision long-range air-launched missiles in the area of the village of VORONOVITSA, Vinnytsia region, the operating buried command post of the Ukrainian air forces was destroyed.
Long-range high-precision sea-based weapons struck a large ammunition depot near the village of UMAN, Cherkasy region. More than three hundred rockets for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems were destroyed, as well as a large amount of ammunition for American M777 howitzers.
As a result of active offensive operations by Russian troops, the 2nd mechanized battalion of the 14th Mechanized Brigade lost its combat capability. Having lost more than 340 people killed and wounded, the remaining personnel left their positions without permission.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery continue to strike at military facilities on the territory of Ukraine.
A total of 17 missiles of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system were intercepted near the cities of KHERSON, NOVAYA KAHOVKA, Kherson region, and MELITOPOL, Zaporozhye region.
Three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were also shot down near the village of PETROVSKOE, the RUTCHENKOVO railway station of the Donetsk People's Republic, and also MOSPANOVO in the Kharkiv region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 264 aircraft, 145 helicopters, 1,711 unmanned aerial vehicles, 363 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,278 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 794 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,284 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 4,785 units of special military vehicles.
Another 389 militants independently left the territory of Ukraine. In terms of the rate of loss of mercenaries in Ukraine, Poland is still leading. Destroyed 99, left - 146 militants. In addition, over the past four weeks, 36 mercenaries from Canada, 33 from Romania, 21 from the United States have been destroyed.
13:10 Since the beginning of the special operation, 7282 foreign mercenaries have arrived in Ukraine. 2,682 of them have already been destroyed by the RF Armed Forces, and 2,408 have left the country, according to the RF Ministry of Defense. Mercenaries are less and less eager for Ukraine. This was influenced, among other things, by the lack of organization of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the devastating strikes that are regularly inflicted on the bases of mercenaries of the RF Armed Forces.
From July 8 to August 9, only 175 new volunteers arrived in the war zone. During the same period, the number of warring foreign citizens decreased by 549 people.
13:08 The command post of the air forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the Vinnitsa region by a strike of high-precision missiles - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
13:05 There are reports that air defense systems are operating in Nova Kakhovka.
11:58 Against the backdrop of a Russian special operation, attempts by Ukrainian special services to persuade young Russians to commit terrorist attacks have intensified - National Anti-Terrorism Committee.
11:55 Law enforcement officers detained in the Kherson region a member of the group involved in the assassination attempt on the head of the penitentiary department, they found grenade launchers in him - Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the region.
11:03 Ukrainian sources report deliveries from Turkey for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of armored vehicles BMC Kirpi 4×4. Similar MRAPs could be seen during joint Russian-Turkish patrols in Syria. It is alleged that the Ukrainian army has already received 50 Turkish armored vehicles, and another 150 "dear friend" Erdogan will deliver in the near future.
09:25 Medvedev: Chief Ukrainian clown proposed "to call to account the entire population of Russia." The last time Adolf Hitler tried to implement such ideas in relation to an entire nation. Do you have any more questions about the nature of Ukrainian power?
09:05 The United States believes that Ukraine already has enough lost western HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems. Therefore, only ammunition for the remaining systems will be supplied, the White House said.
08:16 Ukrainian military Vitaly Markus about the real losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Literally, "Half of the people I fought with in 2014 are either killed or wounded now."
08:10 Zelensky called on Western countries to close entry for all Russians. The Ukrainian president believes that this measure should also apply to those who left the country in protest.