[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Vladimir Putin's attack on the British Council building in Kyiv is a 'clear message of hostility', foreign affairs experts have warned.
Russia was just hours away from killing UK workers with a double-tap rocket strike on a British Council building and the European headquarters in Kyiv.
The two buildings were struck overnight as Russia unleashed a barrage of drones and hypersonic missiles on the Ukrainian capital leaving at least 19 dead including four children, the youngest of whom was just two.
Dramatic footage shows a missile exploding in a fireball explosion at around 5.40am before a second followed 20 seconds later leaving the building 'severely damaged'.
Former Tory MP Bob Seely, a foreign affairs expert, told the Daily Mail: ‘The attack on the British Council building was a deliberate and considered strike to send a clear message of hostility from Putin’s regime.
‘The question now is whether he will continue to strike UK targets inside and outside Ukraine.’
The British Council site, which offers educational courses and English language programmes, is run independently but receives sponsorship from the Foreign Office.
British nationals are recruited from the UK to teach at the centre, and many would likely have been inside had the strike occurred just a few hours later, after it opened at 9am.
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[Korrespondent] The most active fighting is currently ongoing in the area of the city of Liman. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are repelling Russian assaults in 10 locations.
Since the beginning of the current day, the total number of combat clashes along the front line is 60. Three quarters of the battles with the Russian army are concentrated in two directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report as of 16:00 on Thursday, August 28.
Thus, four armed clashes occurred in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions.
In the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction, Russians carried out two attacks in the areas of Glubokoye and Volchansk.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attempted to storm three times near Golubovka and Zagrizove. Two combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the aggressor attacked 19 times in the areas of the settlements of Grekovka, Novomikhaylovka, Karpovka, Zelenaya Dolina, Kolodyagi, Torskoye and in the direction of Yampol, Dronovka and Serebryanka. Currently, 10 armed clashes are ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy twice attempted to advance near Grigoryevka and Pereyezdnoye; all attempts by the enemy to advance on the positions of our units were repelled.
In the Kramatorsk direction, one attack in the direction of Stupochki was repelled.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked in the Shcherbinovka area.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy advanced 24 times in the areas of the settlements of Novoekonomicheskoe, Rodinskoe, Lisovka, Sukhoi Yar, Dachenskoe, Zvirovoe, Udachnoe, Orekhovoe and Novoukrainka. Fighting continues in two locations.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, our defenders are repelling three enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Voskresenka, Maliyevka and Zaporizhzhya.
One enemy assault was stopped in the Dnieper direction.
At the moment, no armed clashes have been recorded in the Gulyai-Polye and Orekhovo directions.
Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on August 28, Russia lost almost 900 servicemen killed and wounded. The total number of Russian losses will soon reach 1.1 million people.
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I think a lot of the current Ukraine effort is going into destroying Russia's fuel supply. Ukraine has achieved some success with this since their drone capability has improved.
Not sure how effective this will be on the front lines but certainly it will limit Russia's tank, APC units as well as massively messing up the Russian army's logistics.
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[NewsFront] 21:40 Seven people suffered as a result of shelling of the Dneprorudny Iron Ore Plant by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
At the time of the attack, a concert was taking place in the assembly hall of the plant, in which children and creative groups participated.
21:00 In the area of the village of Dvurechanskoye with FPV drones "Vit-40"destroyedBTR-4E "Bucephalus" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:10 Assault groups are advancing north of Novomykhaylovka in the northern part of the DPR –MAP
19:46 From 14.30 to 15.40 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
One – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,▫️
One – over the territory of the Belgorod region.
17:59 Special forces support the offensive beyond Chasov Yar, destroying UAV operators, equipment and enemy artillery –VIDEO
17:57 Objective control footage defeats the Ukrainian Navy's medium-sized reconnaissance ship Simferopol was attacked by a Russian high-speed unmanned boat at the mouth of the Danube River.
17:21 Mi-35m crew hit the control point and launch site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV in the area of responsibility of the North troop group.
16:10 Crews of the Molniya-2 aircraft-type UAV of the Zapad group of forcesdestroyedarmored vehicles, camouflaged artillery pieces and shelters with Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.
Thanks to its simplicity and mobility, the use of "Lightning" makes it possible to quickly respond to changing situations and effectively counter the enemy.
14:19 From 08.40 to 13.40 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
Two - over the territory of the Kursk region,
One - over the territory of the Belgorod region
. 12:21 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of August 28, 2025
Units of the North group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized, motorized infantry, ranger, assault brigades, an airborne assault and two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Golubovka, Varachino, Pavlovka, Stepnoye, Kondratovka, Novaya Sich, Maryino and Yunakovka in the Sumy region.💥
In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized and motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade and the border detachment of the border service of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Ivashki, Volchansk and Ambarnoye in the Khar'kov region.
The enemy lost over 180 servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, 12 cars, an artillery piece, two ammunition depots and seven supply depots.
Units of the "West" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Boguslavka, Borovskaya Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region, Stavka and Kirovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 235 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, 22 cars and an artillery piece. Four electronic warfare stations and two ammunition depots were destroyed.
As a result of decisive actions by units of the Southern Group of Forces, the settlement of Nelepovka in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
Formations of six mechanized, airmobile, mountain assault and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Fedorovka, Konstantinovka and Dronovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 205 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, five pickup trucks, two field artillery guns, two ammunition depots and a supply depot.
Units of the "Center" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, infantry, ranger, two assault, two airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade, a territorial defense brigade and three national guard brigades in the areas of the settlements of Krasnoarmeysk, Dimitrov, Dorozhnoye, Belitskoye and Rodinskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to more than 410 servicemen, a Leopard tank made in Germany, three armored combat vehicles, six cars and an artillery piece.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated formations of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Voronoe in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Kamyshevakha in the Donetsk People's Republic and Levadnoe in the Zaporizhia region.
The enemy lost up to 240 troops, seven vehicles and two field artillery pieces, including a US-made 155mm M-198 howitzer.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades, the coastal defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novoandriyevka, Pavlovka, Veselyanka, Primorskoye in the Zaporizhia region, Nikolskoye and Antonovka in the Kherson region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 55 servicemen, a US-made HMMWV armored vehicle, 12 vehicles, and five field artillery pieces. Eight electronic warfare stations, a counter-battery radar station, an ammunition depot, and four supply depots were destroyed.
12:12 Tonight the Armed Forces of the Russian Federationinflicteda group strike with long-range air-launched precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, and strike unmanned aerial vehicles against military-industrial complex enterprises and military air bases in Ukraine.
The strike targets were achieved, all designated objects were hit.
12:08 Sumy region. Correction of the front line in the area of the settlement of Maryino –MAP
11:25 Zaporizhia direction. Russian army fighters have liberated the settlement of Plavni. The first assault groups have entered the southern outskirts of Primorskoye –MAP
11:09 Kursk region. It has been clarified that the village of Otruba is controlled by the Russian army –MAP
10:30 Drone operators of the Sever Brigade continue to effectively control supply routes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Using airdrops and FPV drones, as well as artillery support, fighters strike enemy vehicles.
09:17 Russian Aerospace Forces smashed enemy UAV control center
Reconnaissance units in the area of the settlement of Petrovpavlovka in the Kupyansk direction discovered a control center for drones of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the abandoned buildings.
The Russian Aerospace Forces crew carried out an airstrike on a target using a light multi-purpose guided missile Kh-39. The enemy UAV control point was destroyed, which was confirmed by objective monitoring means in real time.🔹
Enemy drone activity in the area has significantly decreased.
08:16 Russian Aerospace Forces worked at the temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Krasnoarmeysk using FAB-250
In the industrial zone of the settlement, as a result of reconnaissance activities, a temporary deployment point of one of the units of the 155th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was discovered.
An airstrike was carried out on the identified target using FAB-250 aerial bombs from the UMPK.
The successful defeat of the air defense system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit was confirmed by means of objective control in real time.
07:34 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:➡️
Advance in the area of the settlement Zeleny Gai
Expansion of the control zone between the settlements of Shandrigolovo and Kolodezi➡️
Advance in Yunakovka
07:17 During the past night, from 23:00 Moscow time on August 27 to 07:00 Moscow time on August 28, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 102 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
22 UAVs – over the Black Sea,
21 UAVs each – over the territories of the Rostov and Samara regions,
18 UAVs – over the territory of Krasnodar Krai,▫️
11 UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,▫️
Three UAVs each – over the territories of the Voronezh and Saratov regions,
Two UAVs – over the territory of the Volgograd region,
One UAV – over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
05:04 Crews of 152mm towed howitzers "Msta-B" of the artillery unit of the "North" group of forces destroyed temporary deployment points with the Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower. This significantly facilitated the advancement of motorized rifle units for further offensive actions.
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[REGNUM] It is always with delight and admiration that you discover people who do something selflessly and for the sake of the future. Their life, their example is the natural Russian asceticism of our time.
The essence of this movement, although not massive, but stubbornly existing, is that everyone takes on their own shoulders a feasible part of the work, working on their small Motherland, and from such scraps of creation the huge fabric of modern Russia is formed.
People obsessed with love for their native land and the idea of preserving traditions - craftsmanship, spiritual and moral, military (although one does not exist without the other) - without waiting for a command, they themselves bring their wonderful ideas to life.
VILLAGE ON THE YENISEI
There is a small settlement Bakhta in the north of Krasnoyarsk Krai, in the huge taiga region of Turukhansk. On the bank of the Yenisei. There are a little over two hundred people. It was founded more than 400 years ago.
As usual, Bakhta was first just a winter hut, then a handful of huts, then it grew... It stands beautifully, as is customary in Siberia, at the mouth of a river. The river is magnificent - 500 miles of transparent Evenk water among the hills.
As for the name, there are only guesses. There are many names for "Bakhta" in Russia - in the south of our region, in the Kemerovo region, and in the Urals... In Vladimir Ivanovich Dal's dictionary, the word "bakhta" is defined as "Asian printed fabric", so the first thing that comes to mind is the Turkic origin of the name.
But in the Yenisei north there are no Turkic names - they are all in the south of Siberia.
In the taiga north - Selkups, Kets and Evenks. Therefore, there is also a Ket version of the origin of the word Bakhta. Bok tes : Bok - fire. Tes (tes', ses') - river. It seems like it's burnt... Maybe from forest fires? There is also a Ket word "deng" - translated as "people", "family". Boktedeng - people, family from "burnt", from the Gorela River... For example: Kasdeng, people from Kasa, Elukdeng - people from Eloguy (such a river).
Maybe Boktedeng or Bokteng really turned into Bakhta? One can only guess. When our ancestors came to Siberia, they often transformed local names, altered them in their own way. One of our hunters transformed the Evenki name of the river Yadokta into Yagodka. Or, for example, Ergene - in Evenki "winding river", our Transbaikal Cossacks turned it into Argun.
The village is small but significant. In the midst of deserted spaces, even one person - as if it seems larger, grows to a phenomenon, an event. As the neighbor said: "Some kind of concentration!" You can feel the elbow of this neighbor three hundred miles away. Therefore, the village has many things necessary for life - a kindergarten, a museum, a temple, a full school.
TELEPHONE TOWER.
And in the year of Viktor Astafyev's centenary, an initiative arose to organize a two-month School of Painting here, on the basis of the secondary school. The V. P. Astafyev Charitable Foundation was engaged in this, and financial support was provided by the Charitable Foundation for the Preservation of Ecological Systems of Siberia and the Far East. They invited a real artist - a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation Dmitry Plokhikh, who taught schoolchildren (and anyone else interested) the basics of painting.
I won't bother the reader with the program of classes, but I will say the main thing: there was no plan to make artists out of everyone - the task was to teach children to think artistically, to feel aesthetically and, of course, to try to discover, to see through painting the beauty of their native place. And, of course, to reread Astafyev.
With all the academic breadth of the program (drawing, modeling, oil painting), it was precisely the work with oil paints that rose up and reigned over everything, and this turned out to be an absolute miracle: painting in children's little hands is unusually luminous - what is the mystery of mixing paints worth alone! Or light in painting...
The vast world is the life of this light, the particularities of how it fills the surrounding objects with meaning, mood, intonation - no matter what they are - logs, bare larches, the distant Yenisei Ugor in the gray haze. The secret of conveying light and color, turning them into elements of a painting - all this turned out to be such an endless and fascinating matter that even some adult participants of the School left it completely "sick" with painting.
Taking on this hitherto unknown enterprise, we did not know how much it would captivate and interest us - perhaps after the very first lesson no one would want to go. But it was not so. Both children and adults went in almost their entire numbers - and this despite the rather serious workload at the school in general.
ASTAFIEV AND CHILDREN
Since the program began in the year of Viktor Petrovich Astafyev's centenary, the theme of the School of Painting became images from the works of this writer (and our amazing fellow countryman), a true ascetic and educator. And there was another sub-idea in this idea: to show the kinship of the arts, their great contiguity, which Astafyev felt like no one else - let's remember his holy, enthusiastic attitude to music and painting, his heightened sense of nature.
And, of course, the child’s soul from a distant village, so thirsty for beauty, glorified by the writer.
And let us remember ourselves in childhood, when painting or music was revealed through literature and vice versa, and how in this interweaving of births a lifelong impression arose. How this crossroad was filled with a special glow: to feel through Astafyev the composer Sviridov or the conductor Kolobov, through Bunin - Gogol, through Pushkin - Pugachev, Razin - through Shukshin...
I will never forget the heartbeat I felt when I first watched Kalina Krasnaya and in the pre-finale the prisoner sang a song based on Yesenin's poems. This episode struck me so much that for a long time it seemed as if the film began with that song. And the names of Shukshin and Yesenin forever entered my heart as a bright and sorrowful alloy.
Astafyev, with his passionate passion for music and painting, lived a difficult and tragic childhood and wrote a lot about orphanhood - both in the human kingdom, and in the animal kingdom, and in the bird kingdom. He grieved for his drowned mother, for the lost boy in the white shirt, for ruined nests, for snatched babies, for birds and animals that died for various reasons. And he was never afraid - ah! - to traumatize the child reader as if by cruelty - wounded himself from childhood, he carried his wound like a vaccination...
He didn't take care of himself or us.
The artistic image of the kapalukha (wood grouse, female wood grouse), which sometimes rushes about, leading the children away from the nest, and then sits amazingly steadfastly on the nest when a tractor passes over it, became a symbol of the mother's share and responsibility in several of his stories. This image of a mother bird - sometimes touching, sometimes powerful - is the theme of many of his works.
And so, in our School of Painting, we painted this very kapalukha. Adults, children, and hunters painted it, knowing this bird well, so inconspicuous in appearance, unlike the handsome wood grouse - its entire coloring seemed to be created in order to dissolve in the forest and grasses and mosses, to make this mother bird ( "mother bird and dragonfly" ) as invisible as possible.
But how detailed and beautiful are its speckles! Eyes, spots and sabres on ochre. Black on red... What extraordinary beauty in this variegation, in these filigree brackets on a strong field - as if before us is not a feather, but something cast and dense. Such perfection also occurs... in the skies... In light clouds... Thoughtful feathery ripples on the slope of the day in early autumn. Thus the earthly is reflected in the heavenly...
Of course, he tried, the master artist helped, and the brushes worked, and the children's eyes squinted. And the canvas was covered with paints. The mother-kapalukha came to life in the unbearable detail and complexity of the drawing, the long neck stretched out, and now a wary and curious brown eye was shining, a red eyebrow with a bright cranberry arch colored the picture...
And the child himself froze in amazement - how does an image emerge from a mess of colors?! Truly, "the will and labor of man create wondrous wonders!" And his own, close, forest-like - intertwined with great literature.
WE CANCEL THE CLASSICS
Once, one lady from the "cultural" and literary circles, who always takes interviews, gave a fantastic speech in one of her programs. About books and the Soviet era. She even started encouragingly: like, that's how we were, reading and bookish, and so it's right and good. But suddenly (don't fall!): it turns out that all this was forced !
This is from wretchedness and totalitarianism. A lousy life. Like, in bad (!) times you'll grab at any straw, you'll read under the blanket with a flashlight. Because in normal times, reading is not such an important thing. It goes through a comma, on par with everything else. An artist's testimony about his time - what is it for! In "free" eras, there are more interesting things. By normal eras, apparently, they mean times when a child can barely cope with the information trash and impositions like market morality that have fallen on him.
It turns out that the state of hermitage, spiritual autonomy, necessary for a thinking person, which is so valuable at any time and without which a real immersion in culture and history is impossible, is now called a mistake and a disaster. Poor Soviet intellectuals - how unlucky they were to have read so much!
Let's now deal with the impositions. The main one is from the area of overthrow: Pushkin is great, but now is a different time. The effect of that living water has ended. Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky - they are, of course, great - who argues! As well as Rasputin, Shukshin, Astafyev... But, as you understand, now everything is different. Therefore - under the hood! We will wipe the dust, receive money for storage, but we will not open the hood. We will not let you breathe the air alone.
At one time they suggested throwing everyone "over the ship of modernity", they suggested, they shouted, but in schools they studied "War and Peace"! And "The Captain's Daughter". Our "cultured lady", however, will say that it was for the sake of Pugachev's rebellion against autocracy. It may be "for the sake of", but they learned honor, courage and compassion. And now they have thrown everyone over the ship for real: culture must serve the market.
HONEST VILLAGE
Actually, the dispute is about time and the soul. For some in Russia, time is different, but for us it is always the same. That is why some say: "Astafyev wrote about this and that"... And we say - "writes". Astafyev writes about the village, about nature. They will immediately label him - a villager. They say that time has passed, there is no more village literature. And there is no literature about nature either. I wonder: there is a village, there is nature, but there is no literature? Dead. The topic is closed by a new culture, but the phenomenon remains. So who is dead?
By the way, I never liked the word "village dwellers". I imagined some old man from city dwellers' films about the village... Sitting on a bench with a cigarette... Honestly, the term somehow narrows, reduces the scale, stuffs the great into genre, into some specialty... Instead of cosmic... When both the way of life, and nature, and the stars, and calluses on the hands.
Just before the School of Painting, they held a regional competition, "Astafyev and Nature", junior schoolchildren wrote essays, middle and senior schoolchildren wrote essays and research papers. So all the best, all the honest works were from children from villages. Not quite so, of course: city dwellers, especially seniors, have many good works, but there are also many like the one from the girl from the second grade: "The concept of Astafyev's village prose consists in...". It consists in blowing from "sources" on daddy's computer!
And it turns out that the villagers, the backward ones, thought for themselves. So where is there more culture?
Therefore, we will study Shishkin and Surikov, read Belov and Shukshin, and draw a kapalukha. We will follow the example of those who build museums, work with children, give their lives for the future, and not for profit. After all, profit has no homeland, knows no past, and knows no future. It has no audacity of selflessness. And it believes in nothing.
And we believe.
And the creators of folk museums in Yeniseysk (the plane museum and the horse culture museum) and Turukhansk (the museum of spiritual culture of the Yenisey north). And Yuri Mikhailov, who created a birch bark culture museum and a beauty museum in Mariinsk (Kuzbass). And Nikolay Aleksandrov, a writer and publisher from Novosibirsk, who created a whole set of programs on spiritual, moral and patriotic education - and achieved the implementation of these programs in educational institutions of the region.
We believe that it is impossible to recode Russian music, Russian painting, Russian literature. The great Russian culture: deep, integral and highly spiritual. Which, like a high wind, saturated with mountain air, carries layers of oxygen from the past to the future.
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[Regnum] On August 28, the Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of objective control of the destruction of the Ukrainian ship Simferopol by a Russian unmanned boat at the mouth of the Danube.
The footage released shows a boat approaching the ship, followed by an explosion and smoke rising over the river.
“As a result of the attack, the Ukrainian Navy ship sank,” the statement said.
Earlier, the military department reported that a fast unmanned boat of the Russian forces sank a medium-sized reconnaissance ship of the Ukrainian Navy. The vessel was found in the mouth of the Danube and was attacked.
Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk admitted that Russian forces had destroyed a Ukrainian warship. He said the aftermath of the attack was still being dealt with, and that there were one dead and wounded among the ship's crew.
Unmanned aircraft expert Denis Fedutinov said that the Simferopol was the first Ukrainian naval ship that Russian troops were able to sink using an unmanned boat. Earlier, the expert recalled, the only high-profile episode of Russia using such boats was the explosion near one of the bridges across the Dnieper.
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[Regnum] The Russian fleet has been replenished with three new warships at once. This was reported on August 28 by the Russian Defense Ministry.
Warships Viktor Velikiy, Typhoon and Stavropol join the Russian Navy
The patrol ship Viktor Velikiy and the small missile ships Stavropol and Typhoon joined the Navy. The ceremony was held under the leadership of the Navy Commander-in-Chief Alexander Moiseyev. He gave the command to raise the St. Andrew's flags from the Main Admiralty in St. Petersburg.
"I congratulate the crews on the entry of the ships into the combat composition of the Navy! I wish them good service, successful and prompt preparation for the fulfillment of the assigned tasks," Moiseyev said.
The flags on the patrol ship Viktor Velikiy, built for the Black Sea Fleet, and the small missile ship Stavropol, which joined the Baltic Fleet, were raised in Baltiysk. The ceremony to accept the small missile ship Typhoon into the Black Sea Fleet was held in Makhachkala.
At the end of the ceremony, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy received reports on the raising of flags on the ships accepted into the Navy from the Commander of the Baltic Fleet Sergei Lipilin, the Commander of the Baltic Naval Base Aleksei Zhovtonozhko and the Commander of the Caspian Flotilla Oleg Zverev.
On August 14, the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center in Severodvinsk launched a Project 20 181 reinforced ice-class weapons transport ship. The ship, named Akademik Makeyev, is designed for loading, unloading and transporting weapons. At the same time, the Admiral Amelko frigate was launched in St. Petersburg.
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[Regnum] Moscow and Kiev have not reached any agreements on establishing an air truce, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on August 28.
"No agreements have been reached on this matter. I repeat once again: everything that can be discussed in the context of searching for ways to reach a settlement trajectory must be discussed in a discrete manner," said the official Kremlin spokesman.
On August 22, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko called on Russia and Ukraine to establish an air truce. This format of truce implies a complete renunciation of air strikes, including those using drones.
In early August, the agency reported on the possibility of an air truceBloomberg. Journalists claimed that Moscow was considering this option, but there was no talk of a complete halt to military action.
On August 16, an Economist journalist reported that a preliminary agreement had been reached on an aerial ceasefire in the Ukrainian conflict zone. The author of the article claimed that the agreement would remain in effect until a trilateral meeting between Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump with the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky.
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