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23:08 The Ministry of Economy of Germany announced the expansion of the program of state investment guarantees for German enterprises that decide to invest in Ukraine. The decision provides that the German government will now cover not only property losses up to the complete loss of investments, but also conversion and transfer risks for interest payments on investment-like loans.
22:55 The Russians attacked residential buildings in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, with Iskander missiles, Zelensky said in an evening video message.
22:17 The number of those injured as a result of Russian strikes on Pokrovsk has risen to 31 - of which 19 are police officers, five rescuers and one child. Five people were killed, the rubble is being cleared , the National Police said.
21:43 The Russians fired four guided bombs at the village of Kruglyakovka, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region, hit private houses. According to preliminary data, two people were killed and five were injured, the President's Office said.
21:38 As a result of two Russian strikes on residential buildings in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, at least five people were killed and 18 injured , Interior Minister Igor Klimenko said. As of 9:20 p.m., four people were killed and three injured as a result of the first strike. And during the repeated shelling, the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in the Donetsk region was killed, four more rescuers, eight policemen and three civilians were injured. Search and rescue work continues.
21:19 The first batch of American Abrams tanks will leave for Ukraine next weekend and arrive by the beginning of autumn, said the head of the procurement department of the ground forces, Doug Bush. He specified that spare parts for them, fuel equipment and a repair base would be sent along with the tanks. We are talking about 31 tanks - they were being repaired and prepared for shipment for several months.
20:46 In the area of the village of Robotino, Zaporozhye region, soldiers of the 47th brigade shot down a Russian Ka-52 helicopter, Alexander Tarnavsky, commander of the Tavria group of troops, said.
20:43 Kuleba had a conversation with Blinken, urged him to contribute to the provision of ATACMS missiles to strengthen Ukraine's long-range capabilities.
20:31 The Russians launched two missile attacks on Pokrovsk, Donetsk region - they hit a residential building, there are victims, Zelensky said.
19:59 The participating states of the summit in Saudi Arabia did not agree on all the points of the Zelensky Peace Formula, the dialogue on controversial issues continues, Yermak said: "There are points on which there are no objections at all, and there are those on which the dialogue continues." According to the head of the Presidential Office, the point on the territorial integrity of Ukraine is indisputable: "There can be no compromises regarding the territorial integrity, independence and sovereignty, and many countries have emphasized this."
As for the problematic points, this is justice, which provides for the punishment of the Russian political leadership, those guilty of aggression, war crimes, etc., and compensation to Ukraine. “We still need to work with the countries of the Global South on difficult issues, such as responsibility. But not because they are against it, but because they need more explanation on how this will happen,” Yermak said. He added that a meeting of advisers will be held within a month, where they will discuss issues on which there is no final agreement.
19:03 The Russians have been shelling the Nikopol district of the Dnepropetrovsk region all day today, the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak, said. In addition to attacks on Nikopol itself, as a result of which one person died and one was injured, the enemy hit the Marganets community, where the shells caused a fire, as well as the Velikomikhaylovskaya community of the Sinelnikovsky district.
In addition to two downed drones, Ukrainian defenders shot down an enemy missile today. Debris fell in the Dnieper region, one person was injured.
18:44 Zaluzhny said that he had a telephone conversation with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley: "He spoke about the operational situation at the front. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct defensive and offensive operations."
According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the defense is stable, in a number of areas the enemy is conducting active assault operations, but is not successful. In particular, this is due to an attempt to divert Ukrainian forces from certain sectors of the front. As for the offensive, there are heavy battles, the Ukrainian troops, step by step, continue to create the conditions for moving forward. The initiative is on the side of Ukraine. The parties also discussed the current needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in weapons and ammunition.
18:20 After the meeting in Jeddah, Ukraine plans to hold two Peace Formula summits, one of them with the involvement of Russia, Yermak said: "The first summit is a founding one, at which participants must approve Zelensky's ten-point Peace Formula as a basis... The second summit - the final one - will have to fix the end of the war."
The head of the Presidential Office emphasized that this plan is impossible without the implementation of the point on the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine: “And we were supported in this ... In particular, the representative of Germany clearly said: we cannot even allow the thought of a frozen conflict and that troops".
17:43 Zelensky said in an interview with Latin American media that Ukraine is not going to continue the war on the territory of Russia: “We liberate only our own territories. They have somewhere to return, but we don’t. They have somewhere to go, but we don’t. Because this is ours the only land.
17:27 The defense forces continue the offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions, had tactical success in the direction of Malaya Tokmachka, Robotino, Zaporizhia region, are fixed on the achieved lines, Anna Malyar said. At the same time, the enemy is seriously strengthening his defensive lines, which significantly complicates the advance.
16:49 Zelensky, in an interview with Latin American media, criticized Brazilian President Lulu da Silva for the idea of providing security guarantees to the Russian Federation: "It is strange to talk about Russia's security. Only Russia, Putin and Lula talk about Russia's security, about the guarantees that should be given for Russia's security. I just think he has his own opinion, I don't think it's necessary for your thoughts to be the same as Putin's... If President Lula wants to tell me something, let him sit down and say it, and I think we'll be done with this. To be honest, I thought he had a broader understanding of the world."
16:33 Zelensky said in an interview with Latin American media that Ukraine will attack Russian ships if the Kremlin continues to shell ports: "If Russia continues to dominate the Black Sea and block it by firing rockets, then Ukraine will do the same, which is fair protection of our capabilities. If they continue to shoot, we do not have many weapons, but if they continue to shoot, then until the end of the war they may be left without ships. And this is what we want to show them."
16:06 Russian troops are deliberately exacerbating public tension in certain areas on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in order to encourage the local population to leave for the Russian Federation. According to Anna Malyar, the number of cases of rude and disdainful attitude of Russian military personnel towards the local population has increased. At the checkpoints, the displaced persons are threatened with weapons and demanded to give them funds and other material values.
15:55 Russians have been shelling Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region from heavy artillery since the very morning - one person was killed, another one was wounded. Private houses, outbuildings, cars, a gas pipeline and power lines were damaged, said Serhiy Lysak, head of the OVA.
15:47 In July, Ukraine produced twice as many mortar and artillery ammunition as last year. In addition, before the end of the year, the country will produce NATO-standard 155-mm ammunition, said Alexander Kamyshin, Minister for Strategic Industries, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
At the same time, he clarified that the July production results rather indicate not how much Ukraine produces now, but how little was produced a year ago. According to the minister, Ukraine will need years before it can produce enough ammunition to meet current needs. In the year prior to the invasion, the country produced no munitions at all.
15:14 In the area of Novodanilovka, Zaporozhye region, the Russian army the day before made two artillery shellings from MLRS with ammunition containing a chemical substance (probably chloropicrin). People were not injured, the command of the Tavria troops said.
14:51 Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Hossein again claims that Tehran allegedly does not supply drones to the Russian Federation: "During the conflict in Ukraine, we never supplied Iranian drones or weapons to Russia. It is the supply of weapons by Europe and America that leads to further destruction and slaughter."
14:49 Key parliamentary factions of the Bundestag have reached a consensus on the transfer of Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine, Yegor Chernev, deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, head of the permanent delegation of Ukraine to the NATO PA, said citing his sources. "For a long time we worked with German parliamentarians to form a support group, and now, finally, the ice has broken. We are waiting for an official decision," he wrote.
14:38 China at the summit on Ukraine in Saudi Arabia made it clear that it is ready to participate in further international negotiations to resolve the war, writes the Financial Times, citing European officials. One European diplomat said that Beijing "looked constructive" and "wanted to show that it is not Russia." "The very presence of China shows that Russia is becoming more and more isolated," the source said. Another European official said that China "has been actively involved and positive about the idea of a third meeting at this level."
13:51 One of the most difficult issues on the sidelines of the summit in Saudi Arabia was to convey to all participants that Russia should leave the territory of Ukraine, Podolyak said: "Some countries continue to think that this is a matter of some territorial nuances. It is understood that the Russian Federation is attacking for the sake of this territory - we are talking about the east of Ukraine. Leaving something to the Russian Federation, even a small piece, will mean that the war is simply postponed to the next stages."
13:23 Zelensky said that at the daily conference call, they listened, in particular, to Zaluzhny's reports on the situation at the front and intelligence reports on data received from Russia. The head of the SBU reported on the fight against traitors in Ukraine. "We are also preparing for implementation some decisions of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on the continuation of the work of the grain corridor," the president added.
12:50 The speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yury Ignat Ignat denied the information about the launch of Daggers from Belarus during a massive attack on August 5. According to him, Kinzhal missiles were launched from a MiG-31K aircraft near Tambov, and their flight path passed through Belarus. It was from this side that they entered the airspace of Ukraine in the direction of the Khmelnitsky region.
12:39 Poland will hold the largest military parade in 30 years and the first after a three-year break, Polskie Radio reports. The parade will take place on August 15, the Day of the Polish Army, which is celebrated in honor of the victory of the Polish troops over the Red Army in 1920. It is expected that about 2,000 military personnel, 200 vehicles, 92 aircraft will take part in the parade. Soldiers of the allied countries - the USA, Great Britain, Croatia and Romania will also participate in it.
12:31 Russia expects that the BRICS countries participating in the meeting in Jeddah on Ukraine will inform Moscow about the progress of the consultations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. According to her, without the participation of Russia and taking into account its interests, "no meetings on Ukraine have the slightest added value." Zakharova also stressed that a "fair settlement" is possible only if "Kyiv stops hostilities and terrorist attacks, and the West stops pumping Ukraine with weapons."
12:06 Ukraine returned 22 defenders from Russian captivity , Yermak said. These are fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, among them two officers, privates and sergeants. They participated in battles in different directions, among the liberated there are wounded.
11:48 On May 4, Russia wanted to avenge the drone attack on the Kremlin and fired a Kinzhal missile in the direction of the government quarter of Kiev, writes The Times, citing a lieutenant colonel of the Kiev air defense. A Russian MiG-31 took off from the Savasleyka airbase and "the pilot was ordered to take revenge." The missile was fired, but it was shot down with the help of Patriot air defense systems.
"We have a tablet to control the air situation, and when there is an approaching ballistic missile, the computer immediately registers this and draws the area that it should hit. It calculated the target based on the trajectory. The system drew a circle with the center over the Maidan - they were aiming exactly at the government quarter ", - said the source of the publication.
11:19 The alleged meeting between Erdogan and Putin may take place in the last week of August, writes the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.
11:03 The Russians fired at the village of Kucherivka, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region: they hit a residential building, it is known about two dead and three wounded, the OP reported.
10:56 The Russians were preparing a strike on the Nikolaev region when Zelensky was there on a working visit. The SBU said it had detained a Russian informant who was preparing an air strike. In particular, she tried to establish the time and list of locations of the president's approximate route in the region, as well as to identify the location of electronic warfare systems and ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Ochakov area. Russia planned to use this information to prepare a new massive air strike on the Nikolaev region.
The attacker turned out to be a resident of Ochakovo, a former saleswoman in a military store on the territory of a military unit in the region. She faces up to 12 years in prison.
10:35 The situation in southern Ukraine remained difficult last week, the key task for the Ukrainian military is to weaken the enemy, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said. According to her, the enemy "mines positions even in three layers, and mines not only positions, but in general all possible directions of movement." In addition, the Russian Federation strengthens and concretes the dominant key heights.
Meanwhile, in the East, the Russian army is trying to regain lost positions, Malyar said: “The enemy is desperately trying to cordon off Avdiivka, but they can’t get in. They don’t take risks because they don’t want to get involved with our soldiers in street battles and don’t want to lose. they can't move." In addition, the enemy is trying to take control of Maryinka, but he does not succeed.
10:28 In the occupied territory of the Kherson region, the death toll as a result of the explosion by the Russians of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station has grown to 57 - the bodies of two more people have been found, the emergency services of the Russian Federation reported.
10:17 British intelligence notes that the Russian Aerospace Forces continue to spend significant resources to support ground operations in the war against Ukraine, but without a decisive operational effect. So, during the summer, Russian tactical combat aviation usually made more than 100 sorties a day, but mainly over Russian-controlled territory - because of the threat from Ukrainian air defense.
Since the beginning of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in June 2023, Russian attack helicopters have been working effectively. In recent weeks, however, Russia appears to be less able to provide an effective tactical air force in the south.
09:38 The Russians fired on the village of Sadovoye - as a result of a blow to a residential building, one person was injured, the OVA reported.
09:24 Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Naev met with the commander of the Operational Command of the Armed Forces of Poland Tomasz Piotrowski - they discussed, in particular, possible threats due to the deployment of Wagner PMC mercenaries in Belarus.
08:49 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed, four were injured, the OVA reported.
08:21 The Russians fired at the central part of Kherson at night, hit several residential buildings. One person died and ten were injured. In addition, during the extinguishing of the fire, two rescuers were injured, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Over the previous day in the Kherson region, four people were injured as a result of Russian shelling.
08:13 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 7:
- personnel - about 250,240 (+540) people liquidated,
- tanks - 4244 (+7),
- armored combat vehicles - 8270 (+8),
- artillery systems - 4977 (+12),
- MLRS - 709 (+4),
- air defense systems - 467 (+1),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 311 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 4154 (+28),
- cruise missiles - 1377 (+18),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 7451 (+10),
- special equipment - 735 (+1).
07:48 At night, the Russians hit the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region with a rocket, a fire broke out, which the rescuers have already extinguished. People were not hurt. In the morning, the Russian army fired heavy artillery at the Mirovskaya community in the Nikopol region, the information is being specified, the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak, said.
07:35 During the day, 50 clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in the morning report . In particular, in the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the area east of Petropavlovka, Kharkiv region, in the Bakhmutsky direction they are holding back the enemy in the area northeast of Dilievka, in Avdeevsky, they repelled attacks of Russian troops in the Avdeevka area.
In the Maryinsky direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the advance of Russian troops in the areas of Maryinka and Krasnogorovka, and in the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the Robotino region of the Zaporozhye region.
01:01 The total amount of aid allocated by the United States to Ukraine has already exceeded the amount of aid to any other country, writes The Washington Post. According to the newspaper's calculations, this amount has reached $66.2 billion, of which $43.1 billion is military aid, $20.5 billion is economic support, and another $2.6 billion is humanitarian aid. "This is actually a US investment in an ally, the likes of which have not been seen since the Marshall Plan. Moreover, then the volume of assistance, adjusted for inflation, was about $ 150 billion over three years," the newspaper writes.
00:12 There are now about 6.2 million people outside Ukraine who have left since the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, said Deputy Economy Minister Tatyana Berezhnaya. In addition, more than 5 million internally displaced persons are registered in Ukraine. Berezhnaya suggested that the real figure could be higher, since not everyone is registered when leaving the war zone.