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[Korrespondent] 22:02 Russians may have set fire to car tires in the cooling tower of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, said the head of the Nikopol RVA Yevgeny Yevtushenko. According to him, this is unofficial information from sources on the opposite bank. The Zaporizhzhya NPP is currently operating in normal mode.
"Energodar. We are recording from Nikopol that Russian occupiers have started a fire on the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. So far, radiation levels are normal. But as long as Russian terrorists maintain control over the nuclear power plant, the situation is not and cannot be normal," Zelensky commented and showed a video:
21:57 Zelensky said in an evening video address that since the beginning of this summer alone, and only from the Kursk region, almost 2,000 strikes have been carried out on Sumy region: artillery, mortars, drones. "We are recording every missile strike. And each of these strikes deserves a fair response," the president emphasized.
He also confirmed that in the Kyiv region, two people - a father and a four-year-old son - were killed as a result of a Russian strike by a North Korean missile: "Our experts have clearly established what kind of missile it was, and we know exactly from which area of ​​Russian territory the launch took place. It would be entirely fair for the Ukrainians to respond to this terror in the way that is necessary to stop it. With appropriate long-range strikes on missile launch sites from Russia, and the appropriate destruction of Russian military logistics. And we will also continue to talk about this with our partners - just as air defense protects life, lifting restrictions on long-range strikes will save thousands of human lives."
19:55 The monitoring channel Belaruski Gayun claims that on August 9, during the flight of the Belarusian aviation, no drones were detected, which Lukashenko had stated. According to analysts, no missiles were launched from the Su-30 fighter or the MI-24 helicopter.
17:28 A senior Ukrainian official told AFP that the goal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of the Kursk region is "to stretch the enemy's positions, inflict maximum losses and destabilize the situation in Russia." According to him, "thousands" of Ukrainian troops are taking part in the operation. At the same time, the agency's interlocutor assured that the Ukrainian side guarantees that it will not create problems for nuclear security, and that Ukrainian troops will comply with international humanitarian law and do not plan to annex the territories they currently control.
The Ukrainian official said that the intensity of Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine had somewhat decreased in the wake of the operation in Kursk Oblast, but the situation "has not changed much." He also noted that "judging by how actively Western weapons are being used, our Western partners were indirectly involved in the planning."
17:10 The number of wounded as a result of the morning Russian strike on Kramatorsk in Donetsk region has risen to eight, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin. 42 private houses, 19 multi-storey buildings, five public utilities, seven private enterprises and an infrastructure facility were damaged.
14:26 The Belarusian Defense Ministry stated that units of one of the mechanized units of the Belarusian army have been put on alert to perform their assigned tasks. In particular, Belarusian servicemen are allegedly loading military equipment onto rail transport and starting the march to the designated areas. State Border Service spokesman Andrei Demchenko, in turn, stated that as of Sunday, no movement of Belarusian equipment near the Ukrainian border has been recorded. According to him, the situation on the border remains unchanged.
12:22 Air defense destroyed 53 out of 57 Shahed attack UAVs in Mykolaiv, Odesa, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Kherson, Kyiv, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Rivne and Cherkasy regions at night. In addition, the enemy attacked with four KN-23 ballistic missiles from the Voronezh region, and also struck Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, probably with rocket artillery. "As for Russian strikes with North Korean missiles, I will say the following: ballistic KN-23s, although they rarely reach their desired targets, pose a serious threat to the population," said Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
11:45 In Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, the process of identifying and recognizing the bodies of those killed in the missile strike on a shopping center on August 9 has been completed, the prosecutor's office reported. According to the final data, 14 people were killed in the attack, including three children aged nine, 11 and 16. 44 people were injured.
10:39 In Sumy Oblast, over the past 24 hours, enemy troops opened fire on 35 border settlements more than 50 times, two people were injured, the National Police reported. The OVA added that one person was injured in the Velykopisarevska community as a result of explosives being dropped from a UAV.
09:08 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and 11 others were injured, including one child, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
09:00 Russians have again struck an infrastructure facility in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, in the morning; four people are known to have been wounded, OVA chief Vadim Filashkin reported. Three people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on August 10: in Kramatorsk, Grodovka, and Stenki. Three more people in the region were wounded in the past 24 hours.
08:57 On Saturday, August 10, Russians fired from MLRS at the village of Lesnaya Stenka in the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, one person was killed, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
08:53 The Times writes, citing Ukrainian sources, that the summer counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into Russian territory is Zelensky's riskiest decision, which has been planned for months. According to the publication, Zelensky has been secretly pressuring the military leadership for several months to launch an offensive. According to sources, Ukraine would have attacked Russia even if it had not received permission from the West. In this way, Kiev wants to change the narrative that "Ukraine is losing the war."
The newspaper writes that the forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces allocated for this operation amount to between 6,000 and 10,000 soldiers. "The military leadership is ready to risk valuable soldiers and equipment in order to achieve something in this direction," the journalists note.
08:45 At night, Russia attacked Kiev with ballistic missiles of the Iskander-M type or North Korean KN-23, as well as attack drones of the Shahed type, said the head of the KGVA, Sergey Popko. According to him, the missiles did not reach the capital and were shot down in the suburbs. About ten UAVs were shot down in the airspace of the capital. At this moment, there is no damage in Kiev, no information about casualties has been received.
08:34 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 11:
- personnel - about 590,920 (+1220) people,
- tanks - 8447 (+6),
- combat armored vehicles - 16,363 (+13),
- artillery systems - 16,663 (+58),
- MLRS - 1143 (+0),
- air defense systems - 918 (+0),
- aircraft - 366 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+1),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 13,399 (+27),
- cruise missiles - 2425 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 22,524 (+71),
- special equipment - 2800 (+11).
08:26 Drones attacked Voronezh at night - Governor Alexander Gusev said that "several private houses, an administrative building, and individual infrastructure facilities" were damaged. About 100 residents of Voronezh were left without power, no one was hurt.
The Russian Defense Ministry claims that overnight the air defense destroyed 14 Ukrainian drones and four Tochka-U tactical missiles over the Kursk region, 16 drones over the Voronezh region, three over the Belgorod region, and one each over the Bryansk and Oryol regions.
07:30 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's artillery shelling of Ochakov in the Nikolaev region has increased to four, reported the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
06:39 In the Kiev region, during a night rocket attack, as a result of debris falling on private residential buildings in the Brovarsky district, two people were killed, including a four-year-old child, and three were injured, including a 13-year-old child, the State Emergency Service reported.