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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:37 Ground-based high-precision weapons hit the temporary base of foreign mercenaries in Kharkov, more than 90 militants were killed, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
23:28 Since 22.50 Moscow time, Ukrainian troops have been conducting a massive shelling of Energodar (near the ZNPP) from heavy artillery, the authorities of the Zaporozhye region said.
21:50 "I am still not a supporter of collective responsibility," Arestovich told the newspaper. According to him, choosing those who need to be denied a visa, you need to be "more selective." As an example of those who should be denied entry, he named those who support Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the same time, Zelensky’s adviser himself admits that it will be "technically difficult" to determine this.
21:50 The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev:
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine are located in the hostel of the University of Kharkov, armored vehicles are placed nearby;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine placed ammunition depots in the music school of Toretsk DPR, installed MLRS nearby;
▪️The Russian military carried out six humanitarian actions in a day in the NVO zone in Ukraine;
▪️Sappers of the RF Armed Forces neutralized 550,000 explosive objects in the Donbass;
▪️More than 26,000 people were evacuated to the Russian Federation from the territories of Donbass and Ukraine per day.
21:50 Ukraine will not compromise with Russia, said Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and said that now there is an opportunity to "kill Russia's spine."
"On the question, to what extent is the restoration of borders the goal of Ukraine? Only complete de-occupation up to the borders of 1991," he wrote.
"Any territorial compromise with the Kremlin is a war postponed for the future. It is today that there is a chance to kill the spine of the Russian “colossus with feet of clay," Danilov emphasized.
21:50 Air defense system worked in Kerch, there is no danger to the city and the Crimean bridge, according to an adviser to the head of the Crimea.
20:55 In the Kherson region destroyed Georgian mercenary.
It became known about another Georgian mercenary killed in Ukraine. The militant Berdia Jokhadze was eliminated on August 12 in the Kherson region.
In total, during the period of the special military operation in Ukraine, at least 18 mercenaries from Georgia were killed.
19:00 The SBU announced that they had detained an official of the Lviv City Council, who organized a scheme for illegally transporting conscripts abroad. During the search, she has more than 8 million hryvnias in cash.
According to the SBU, the detainee was the head of one of the regional departments of social protection of the Department of Humanitarian Policy of the Lviv City Council, and her accomplices were employees of one of the medical institutions.
For 1,300 dollars, the official guaranteed the production of certificates included in the inspection report of the Medical and Social Expert Commission on the establishment of a disability group. Such "documents" are the basis for men of military age to travel abroad under martial law.
At the moment, the official has been informed of suspicion of illegal transfer of persons across the state border of Ukraine.
18:04 Russian military applied Kh-69 cruise missile at the Ukrainian Armed Forces facility
The use of high-precision aviation ammunition was shown at a briefing by the RF Ministry of Defense.
🔹The X-69 cruise missile was developed by specialists from the Tactical Missiles Corporation.
🔹Main characteristics: maximum flight range up to 290 km; speed from 700 to 1,000 km/h; warhead weight 300-310 kg.
🔹Precision-guided munitions can be placed both on external mounts and in internal weapons bays.
The Russian Kh-69 cruise missile is designed to destroy ground targets that may not have radar, infrared or optical contrast to the surrounding background, with coordinates known before launch.
18:04 Russian artillery spotter told RIA News about his work and showed a hit on the positions of the Ukrainian military in the Kharkiv region
18:04 Ukraine, with the support of the United States and a number of NATO countries, is preparing a new provocation around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant - the Russian delegation at the NPT conference.
16:50 Ukrainian militant set fire to residential building and boasted in social networks. Amnesty International, in rewriting its report, clearly does not intend to include the war crimes of this type of Ukrainian fighters.
15:52 All services are put on alert in Energodar in case of provocations by the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Zaporozhye NPP - the head of the CAA.
15:49 In the Zaporozhye region, they began to issue Russian license plates to motorists with the region code "185" - Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
14:20 Thanks to the destruction of call centers in Ukraine, IT crime has decreased during the special operation. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev.
"In the Russian Federation, every fourth crime is still committed using IT technologies. However, over the three months of this year, their number has significantly decreased - by 8.5 percent."
According to experts, this indicates that call centers located in Ukraine and neutralized during a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces were massively involved in this process, ”the minister was quoted in the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
14:19 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published footage of the transfer of three MiG-31 aircraft with hypersonic missiles "Dagger" to the Kaliningrad region
14:15 Three MiG-31s with Kinzhal missiles have been relocated to the Chkalovsk airfield in the Kaliningrad region, where round-the-clock combat duty will be organized as part of strategic deterrence, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
MiGs with Kinzhals worked out issues of interaction with fighters of the 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army, as well as naval aviation of the Baltic Fleet during the flight, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
13:16 Russian law enforcers detained two men in Kherson who were transmitting information to the Armed Forces of Ukraine about the movement and location of the RF Armed Forces. One of them fought near Mariupol on an artillery mount on the side of Kyiv, our correspondent reports.
"He [my former commander] asked me to identify the places of concentration of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the city of Kherson and give him the coordinates. I answered him: I agreed, tol done of the detainees, Petr Zhadan. In total, since March of this year, he handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine nine coordinates for the location of Russian troops in the city of Kherson.
12:18 The United States is transferring anti-radar missiles to Ukraine without advertising such deliveries, Business Insider reported.
According to the publication, the Ukrainian military is receiving AGM-88 HARM missiles. However, their use "will have only a limited impact" on combat operations: aviation in the conflict has not become a "decisive factor", since Ukraine lacks modern fighters, and Russia has something to counter American missiles, the newspaper notes.
12:17 New statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense about Kyiv preparing a provocation at the Zaporozhye NPP:
- The purpose of Kyiv's provocation at the Zaporozhye NPP is to create an exclusion zone of up to 30 kilometers, to bring in international forces and accuse Russia of nuclear terrorism;
- According to the forecast, in the event of an accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, radioactive substances will cover Poland, Germany, and Slovakia;
- The Ukrainian side, together with the curators from the United States, is trying to cause, in their opinion, a minor accident at the nuclear power plant and, thereby, disrupt the normal and safe operation of the nuclear power plant, blaming Russia for this;
- If the negative development of the situation with Ukrainian shelling continues, the issue of putting the 5th and 6th power units into cold reserve may be considered, which will lead to the shutdown of the Zaporizhzhya NPP;
- The Ukrainian military is systematically shelling the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, there were 12 shellings in a month, more than 50 shell explosions and 5 kamikaze drones were recorded.
11:59 Russian Defense Ministry briefing:
- More than 250 nationalists were liquidated as a result of Russian artillery strikes on the positions of the 95th Airborne Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
- In the Nikolaev region, about 60 nationalists were destroyed by a strike by the army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the point of temporary deployment of the 28th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed more than 60 percent of the personnel of the battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka area;
- The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed more than 80 nationalists with strikes in the areas of the villages of Belaya Krinitsa and Velikoye Artakovo;
- Russian air defense systems destroyed ten Ukrainian drones in the DPR, Kharkiv and Kherson regions in a day.
11:57 According to information from local residents, in Zaporozhye, the military is trying to take away the premises from the ninth maternity hospital, which is located in the Khortitsky district. They say that a military hospital should be organized in the building.
The employees of the maternity hospital several times managed to fend off the demands of the military. But in mid-August, they came with an order from the "governor" of the Zaporozhye region, Alexander Starukh.
At the same time, in other hospitals in Zaporozhye, in particular in the ninth and in the regional one, there are mothballed premises that can be used as military hospitals.
This story perfectly illustrates the approaches of the Zelensky regime, which deprives citizens of elementary benefits in the interests of continuing the war.
11:57 At the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declared about the readiness to present to the IAEA real pictures in good resolution, which show that weapons, especially heavy ones, are not placed on the territory of this station.
At the same time, the United States is hushing up objective data about the shelling and the situation at the nuclear power plant, thereby encouraging the impunity of the Kyiv regime and contributing to the possible development of a nuclear catastrophe in Europe, the department added.
10:56 Korchinsky calls hit the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to stop the advance of the Russian army. Like, it doesn’t matter that our own people suffer, the main thing is to stop Russia. In the zone of possible radiation contamination, there may be residents of large cities - Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrvsk, that is, several million people. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are already shooting at the ZNPP, that is, the Ukrainian army is essentially a terrorist organization, and the Ukrainian state is ready to bury itself along with its citizens.
10:56 One vessel with corn left Chornomorsk, - the Turkish Ministry of Defense. It is also reported that four ships will head to Ukraine for cargo.
10:55 At night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted three strikes with kamikaze drones on Energodar, the administration building was slightly damaged. This is reported by the authorities of the Zaporozhye region.
10:54 Ukrainian shelling of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station poses a threat to the cooling system of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The plan for the evacuation of residents in the event of an accident at the ZNPP has been worked out. This is reported by the head of the Regional State Administration.
09:20 Russian troops do not have heavy weapons either on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant or in the areas adjacent to it. There are only security units there - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
08:53 Consequences of fire damage by the Russian army of location of Ukrainian armed formations in the Saltovsky district of Kharkov.
08:06 Calculation of BM-21 122mm rocket artillery "Grad" in the Kharkiv direction suppressed the fire of the French self-propelled gun mount "Caesar", as well as smashed positions of Ukrainian security forces equipped in this area.
07:53 Fires in Kharkiv continue after morning strikes. Another place of temporary deployment of Ukrainian militants is on fire
07:10 The Ministry of Defense showed new personnel combat work of the crews of the BM-27 220mm rocket artillery "Hurricane" on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the special operation.
06:32 After the night shelling of Ukrainian facilities in Kharkiv, powerful strikes continued in the morning. The Gauleiter of the city reported at least five hits on the target.
03:49 The Energoatom company, which manages Ukrainian nuclear power plants, has created a crisis headquarters in case of an accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
03:19 Reported about five strikes on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zaporozhye.
01:07 Arestovich tried to explain why factories and infrastructure have not been built in Ukraine for 30 years: