Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:31 During the defeat of the Ukrainian offensive, more than 1,200 enemy soldiers and officers and 48 tanks were destroyed, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
22:19 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of the workshop of the Intervzryvprom plant in Krivoy Rog, where they produced explosives for Ukrainian troops.
21:33 Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian UAV over Sevastopol near Cape Fiolent. In the past few days, cases of intrusions of enemy drones into the airspace of Crimea have increased significantly.
21:12 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, due to the situation at the front, is tightening the information policy. New requirements for the media on how to cover the fighting have been published:
An alternative interpretation of the operational situation at the front is unacceptable.
You can't make your own predictions.
Only the Armed Forces of Ukraine have the right to report on hostilities, their course, consequences and results.
To refrain from rumors and not to evaluate the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Defense Forces of Ukraine as a whole.
20:45 The IAEA mission and UN representatives are leaving Kyiv through the only checkpoint in Zaporozhye.
20:36 Near Kherson, according to various sources, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost from 500 to 1,500 people.
19:30 Today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at two districts of the Kursk region, Governor Startovoit said. A farm and a livestock complex were under attack. They got damaged. There are no casualties among the population. 20 animals died.
19:00 IAEA mission consisting of 14 people, which left Vienna on August 29, will arrive at the Zaporozhye NPP on August 31 - The New York Times.
18:53 Governor of the Kursk region: today two border villages of the Glushkovsky district - Alekseevka and Elizavetovka - came under mortar fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:16 Over the past few hours, Ukrainian formations have again fired at Kherson near the Antonovsky bridge, Tavriysk and New Kakhovka. Some of the shells were shot down by Russian air defense systems.
18:00 The IAEA mission travels through the only checkpoint in Zaporozhye. The IAEA delegation headed by Rafael Grossi is going to the ZNPP through the only checkpoint in the Zaporozhye region. At the checkpoint, members of the delegation saw a many-hour traffic jam on the exit from the territory controlled by Kyiv towards the liberated territories. Representatives of the IAEA have not yet commented on what they saw.
17:28 Modernized self-propelled artillery mounts 152mm 2S19 "Msta-S" were delivered to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. JSC "Uraltransmash" ahead of schedule supplied the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation with a batch of self-propelled guns that underwent major repairs and modernization. The modernized self-propelled guns were equipped with an automated guidance and fire control system, and they also overhauled all units.
17:14 Nord Stream will be stopped. The gas pipeline will be frozen from 4:00 am August 31 to 4:00 am September 3, Gazprom reported.
17:10 New equipment for the city hospital was delivered to Berdyansk. In the cardiology department, an angiograph was put into operation, with the help of which 2 operations have already been performed to stent the heart vessels. In addition, new ambulances will be delivered to the hospital in the near future.
16:37 Stocks of the German armed forces, from which weapons were sent to Ukraine, are running out - DPA agency, citing German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht
16:33 Explosion in Oleshky, Kherson region.
16:30 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are gathering strike forces at the front from Nikolaev to Krivoy Rog. It seems that in the coming days they will try to break through the front again. Ours are ready and waiting. Preparing strikes to pre-empt the columns.
15:15 In the Kursk region, the day before, the FSB border post was attacked from a drone in the area of the settlement. Anatolyevka. Earlier, an explosive device was dropped in the area of the settlement. Popovka.
14:35 The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched at least 20 strikes on the coastline of Energodar to interfere with the IAEA mission.
14:30 Head of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov reported to Vladimir Putin on the work of the agency’s subdivisions as part of the fulfillment of tasks during a special military operation in the Donbass.
14:04 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are shelling the coastline of the city of Energodar in order to disrupt the mission of the IAEA - the military-civilian administration.
13:45 The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that there is information about the US readiness to supply Kyiv with weapons with a firing range of 300 km - Ukrainian troops will have to be pushed back to this distance.
13:15 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation about the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during yesterday's offensive operations.
More than 1,200 Ukrainian servicemen died during the defeat of the offensive of Ukrainian troops in Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and other directions.
Also, effective actions of the Russian group of troops destroyed 48 tanks, 46 infantry fighting vehicles, 37 other armored fighting vehicles, eight pickup trucks with heavy machine guns in a day.
13:10 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation about the provocations of Kyiv in order to create a threat of a man-made disaster at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. On August 29, Ukrainian troops used four attack drones on the territory of the nuclear power plant.
All drones are intercepted by Russian means. One of the drones fell on the roof of the building of special building No. 1, which stores American-made nuclear fuel and solid radioactive waste. Destruction and casualties were avoided. In addition, over the past day, Ukrainian artillery fired two shells at the territory of the nuclear power plant, which exploded in the immediate vicinity of the special building No. 1.
The shelling was carried out from the firing positions of the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Marganets area of the Dnipropetrovsk region. The firepower of the enemy was suppressed by return fire from the Russian Armed Forces.
13:08 Losses of Ukrainian troops in an attempted offensive amounted to more than 1,200 soldiers, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Also, 48 tanks, 46 infantry fighting vehicles, 37 other armored vehicles and 8 pickup trucks with heavy machine guns of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the day. When repelling the offensive, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred from western Ukraine were also defeated: the 128th separate assault brigade. The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the production workshops of the Intervzryvprom plant in Krivoy Rog.
13:00 Less and less trust in the Ukrainian regime - Head of the DPR. During a meeting with foreign journalists, the Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin told how the next “counterattack” of the Ukrainian security forces in the Kherson direction ended:
“Ukraine is justifiably distrusted. The grandiose breakthroughs in the southern direction, which were announced yesterday, turned out for Ukraine in the form of losses of at least 560 servicemen and countless wounded soldiers, a large number of broken equipment. These are the results of another resounding victory "in the south."
12:38 The special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine continues in accordance with existing plans, and all its goals will be achieved - Peskov.
12:34 In Sevastopol, the air defense system worked again - the governor of the city Razvozhaev. According to preliminary data, an UAV was shot down in the Verkhnesadovoe area.
12:33 The IAEA mission to the Zaporozhye NPP included experts from Poland, Lithuania, Serbia, China, France, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Albania, North Macedonia, the group does not include representatives of Britain, the United States and Russia.
12:17 The IAEA mission arrived in Kyiv, - media.
12:16 Explosions are heard near the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson.
11:24 Battle for Kherson: the situation at the Posad-Pokrovsky and Aleksandrovsky sections as of 11:00 on August 30, 2022:
At night, the Russian Armed Forces managed to push the enemy back to the Blagodatnoye (Petrovskoye) - Pravdino line, just four km from Posad-Pokrovsky.
To the northeast, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reached the Red Banner (Lyubomirovka), but could not move further. According to preliminary information, Ternovye Pods are under the APU.
An Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down near Novogrigorivka: most likely, the enemy tried to work out the positions of the RF Armed Forces in the Red Banner (Lyubomirovka) from the machine guns installed on board.
Fighting continues in the area of farms in the village of Soldatskoye, three km southwest of Posad-Pokrovsky. All attempts to advance on Pravdino were repulsed, the airborne units held the line. Information about a breakthrough towards Chervony Podol (Mirne) was not confirmed.
On the part of the Tavriysky (Kirovo) Armed Forces of Ukraine, they tried to develop an offensive against Aleksandrovka, forcing the reclamation canal. At the same time, an attempt was made to advance across the dam to Aleksandrovka from the west. Both attempts were repulsed.
For a day and a half of fighting, the RF Armed Forces did not allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine to advance in the direction of Kherson and confidently entrenched themselves four km from Posad-Pokrovsky. In the event of the loss of the initiative by the Ukrainian side and the availability of forces, now would be an ideal moment to launch a counteroffensive and expand the buffer zone by capturing Posad-Pokrovsky and Stepova Dolina.
But the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has not yet ended, although the intensity is declining.
11:21 A source in the OP said that Zelensky set a condition for Zaluzhny - a counteroffensive or resignation. At Bankova, they are not satisfied with the position of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who often began to make decisions on his own, while hiding behind the support of the United States. After Johnson's visit, Ukraine was given two months for the Battle for Kherson operation, after which Western support will begin to change. Zaluzhny is forced to transfer reserves from the eastern front and withdraw troops near the border with Belarus in order to form shock groups until September 15.
11:18 Near Novogrigorovka of the Nikolaev area Russian fighters brought down Ukrainian Mi-8.
11:15 Western countries continue to kindle the fire of madness in Ukraine - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin. At a meeting with foreign journalists Head of the DPR commented shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant by the Ukrainian security forces, calling them the main goal of preventing the IAEA Mission from entering the ZNPP territory.
11:01 Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station continues its work, despite the ongoing missile strikes - the head of the administration of the Kakhovka district Vladimir Leontiev:
“Residential neighborhoods and civilians are suffering. Obviously, all this is aimed at sowing fear among the residents, but this only acts against the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ”added the head.
10:40 In most of Nova Kakhovka, electricity supply has been resumed, water supply has been restored after attacks from the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Vladimir Leontyev, head of the Kakhovka district administration.
10:21 Iran handed over to Russia the first batch of attack drones that the Russian army will use in Ukraine.
10:12 Several more were inflicted blows across Kharkov.
10:08 Air defense went off in Kherson. Shot down four missiles.
10:05 BAZA reports that in the Kherson region at about 8:00 a.m., the car of Major Sneshin, head of the traffic police on duty, was blown up. In the car was the policeman himself, as well as his wife and 7-year-old daughter. According to preliminary data, a radio-controlled explosive device stuffed with chopped nails went off. No one was injured in the explosion, only the car was damaged.
10:02 In the morning in Kherson, the fighters of the Russian Guard liquidated an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group that had entered the city.
09:50 Results of the night of August 29-30:
At night in Sumy, immediately after the air raid alarm, a fire broke out at one of the “enterprises”.
In Zaporozhye, at least five missile strikes were carried out on enemy targets.
In the Dnepropetrovsk region, the RF Armed Forces attacked targets in Krivoy Rog, Nikopol and Novomoskovsk.
09:11 In Kherson, a sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was liquidated, said the deputy head of the region, Kirill Stremousov. All militants were destroyed. Earlier, local social networks reported the sounds of gunfire on the outskirts of Kherson.
08:42 Russia trains schools of the Zaporozhye region for the new academic year.
About 160 educational institutions of the Zaporozhye region will receive almost 900,000 new textbooks from Russia. Well, each first-grader will receive a whole school backpack filled with everything you need: from pens to colored paper /TK Zvezda/.
08:19 Energodar under fire!
Today at 06:50 AM militants shelled the ZNPP territory and the coastline of the city. Large-caliber artillery was used. As a result, two ruptures were recorded near the spent fuel storage building.
The reason for the shelling is the deliberate intention of the Kyiv leadership to disrupt the IAEA mission led by Rafael Grossi. At the moment, the shelling continues. Reported by Vladimir Rogov.
08:02 Consequences yesterday's shelling at VFU pgt. Andreevka Berdyanskogo district.
07:41 More than 8,000 residents of the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region received passports of citizens of the Russian Federation, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
07:22 Howitzer "Hyacinth-B" denazifies Ukrainian militants
152mm gun 2A36 allows destroy APU at a distance of up to 28 km.
04:07 Nothing threatens the Kherson region, several lines have been built to protect against possible encroachments from Ukraine, said Stremousov, deputy head of the regional administration, RIA Novosti reports.
According to him, the more the region is shelled, the more its inhabitants demand a referendum.
03:38 Missile strikes were carried out on enemy targets in Zaporozhye: several explosions thundered.
03:02 Head of the Department of Education of the Administration of the Volchansky District of the Kharkiv Region Vera Sorokovaya told how the Kyiv regime threatens local teachers and how this has affected the work of schools. RIA Novosti reports.
01:43 New personnel work of the Ka-52 "Alligator" of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Ukraine.
0:46 So, the reconnaissance of the Airborne Forces together with the gunners destroyed armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the battles near Nikolaev.
The landing party accurately hits enemy targets, correcting the fire from the UAV in the Nikolaevsky direction.
0:11 They report on the work of air defense on the border of the Belgorod region with Ukraine. They hit some targets.
0:05 Missile attacks on Krivoy Rog are reported. High activity also continues at the front on the Ingulets River.