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[Korrespondent] 22:06 Zelensky said in an evening video address that he had signed several new sanctions decisions on the implementation of the NSDC sanctions: "Almost 150 entities - legal entities and individuals ensuring the operation of Russia's aviation infrastructure. Also another package of sanctions against collaborators... And the task for all representatives of Ukraine is to do everything to ensure that Ukrainian sanctions are synchronized with global ones."
21:35 The Kharkiv National University of the Air Force reported that a Mi-2 helicopter crashed during a training flight, the crew of two people died.
19:21 The number of casualties in the enemy attack on Kharkiv has risen to 44, including seven children. Medical assistance is being provided to another three-month-old boy, the Prosecutor General's Office reported. It has been established that the enemy used two Iskander-M ballistic missiles on a shopping center in the Saltovsky district, a direct hit by three Iskander-M missiles was recorded on the Sports Palace building in the Nemyshlyansky district, and three more hits by S-300/400 missiles were recorded on the adjacent territory.
19:02 The Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office clarified that three people were killed and 11 were wounded in Kurakhovo as a result of an enemy attack.
18:49 The enemy attacked two industrial enterprises in the city of Sumy with KABs - one person was wounded, the prosecutor's office reported.
18:23 During today's missile strike on Kharkov, one of the energy facilities was attacked, the Ministry of Energy reported.
17:07 In Kharkov, as a result of today's Russian strikes, more than 40 people have already been wounded, including five children, two medics and two rescuers, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
15:46 One of those wounded in the Russian strike on Kurakhovo in Donetsk Oblast has died in hospital, the prosecutor's office reported. Thus, as a result of the attack, four people were killed and eight were injured.
15:05 Russian troops fired from Uragans at Kurakhovo in Donetsk Oblast, hitting the private sector and high-rise buildings in the city center. At least three people were killed and nine were wounded, said OVA chief Vadim Filashkin.
14:59 Russians have launched about ten missile strikes on Kharkiv, including Iskanders. There are currently 29 known casualties, including two children and two medics, said OVA chief Oleg Sinegubov. The damaged infrastructure includes a shopping center, residential buildings, a Nova Poshta branch, stores, and a sports complex. The strikes were carried out on three locations: the Kharkiv Sports Palace, a shopping center in the Saltovsky district, and near Hydropark in the Kyivsky district.
12:13 Russians attacked Lyubotin in the Kharkiv region, three people are known to have been injured, a civilian enterprise was damaged, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
11:18 The prosecutor's office clarified that on the evening of August 31, the enemy launched a missile attack on a convoy of grain trucks on the Sumy-Kharkov highway near the village of Verkhnyaya Syrovatka in the Sumy region. As a result of the attack, one of the truck drivers was killed and four others were injured. One truck caught fire and about 20 were damaged.
10:01 In the Kherson region, over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and another was injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
09:52 In Donetsk Oblast, on August 31, one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling - in Shcherbinovka. Another six people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:49 Air defense destroyed eight of 11 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. The drones were destroyed within the Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad and Dnipropetrovsk regions. In addition, Russia used an Iskander-M ballistic missile for the attack. This time, the Russian Federation's target was Ukrainian grain and agricultural logistics, in particular in the Mykolaiv and Sumy regions, the Air Force noted.
09:45 At night, Russians shelled the village of Slatino in the Kharkiv district - six people were injured, including a pregnant woman. As a result of the repeated shelling, a utility room of an agricultural enterprise was on fire, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. He also specified that the number of victims as a result of yesterday's strike on the village of Cherkasskaya Lozovaya in the Kharkiv district has grown to 11, two people died, and as a result of the evening shelling of the Slobodsky district of Kharkiv, four people were injured, including one child.
In the village of Osinovo in the Kupyansky district, one person was injured as a result of shelling, another - in the village of Kamennaya Yaruga in the Chuguevsky district. Four people were also injured as a result of shelling in the village of Novoosinovo in the Kupyansky district. In addition, this morning the Russians struck a civilian enterprise in the Bogodukhovsky district, two people were injured.
The Kharkiv region police reported that on the evening of August 31 in the city of Kupyansk, a Russian FPV drone attacked a service vehicle in which there were three police officers. All of them were injured, one of the police officers died in the hospital.
09:16 Late in the evening of August 31, Russians launched a missile attack on the Verkhnesyrovatskaya community of the Sumy region - one person was killed, four were injured, the OVA reported. Grain trucks that were supposed to be used to collect and transport the harvest were damaged.
08:53 Drones attacked the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya at night, the fire was assigned the highest level of complexity, the regional emergency services reported. Later, emergency services clarified that the complexity level of the fire at the Kapotnya oil refinery was lowered from fifth to second. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that "the downed drone damaged a separate technical room of the Moscow Oil Refinery as a result of the fall", which caused the fire. Meanwhile, Moscow residents are sharing footage of a burning torch at the Kapotnya oil refinery.
Publics also write that the drone fell in the village of Durnikha, Ramensky urban district, Moscow region. According to some reports, the drones tried to attack Zhukovsky airport.
In the Tver region, drones attacked a state district power plant and the Konakovo gas distribution network located several kilometers away, causing fires. The governor of the Tver region, Igor Rudenya, announced that the fire in the Konakovo district had been localized. According to him, "there are no casualties, the district's gas and electricity supply is operating normally."
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 158 drones over regions of central Russia overnight, including nine over Moscow and the Moscow region.
08:17 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 1:
- personnel - about 616,300 (+1350) people,
- tanks - 8592 (+10),
- combat armored vehicles - 16,760 (+24),
- artillery systems - 17,636 (+22),
- MLRS - 1176 (+0),
- air defense systems - 940 (+0),
- aircraft - 368 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 14,507 (+36),
- cruise missiles - 2557 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 23,881 (+56),
- special equipment - 2991 (+14).
07:39 During the evening and night, Russian troops attacked the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region with Grad MLRS, heavy artillery and kamikaze drones, two people were injured, reported the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak. Infrastructure, an industrial enterprise, and a gas station were damaged in the district.
07:22 At night, Russians attacked a grain warehouse in the village of Limany, Galitsynovskaya community, Nikolaevsky district, with a drone; the fire was quickly extinguished, said the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim.