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Turkey reports money transfers by Ukrainian authorities to UAE
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The entourage of the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, regularly transfers $50 million (about 4 billion rubles) to the bank accounts of companies based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This was reported on August 11 by the Turkish newspaper Aydınlık.

"Zelensky's inner circle transferred about $50 million monthly to the accounts of two companies linked to Andriy Gmyrin, the alleged administrator of corrupt funds. Both companies are located in the UAE," the article stated.

In addition, the publication cited the account numbers to which Kyiv’s corrupt funds were received.

On August 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Ukraine a country where corruption is overwhelming. Commenting on the situation around the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), the Russian leader pointed out that corruption is characteristic of all states, but the question is its degree. Putin emphasized that corruption in Ukraine cannot be defeated by external institutions like NABU.

Ukrainian political scientist Nikolai Davydyuk said on July 27 that defendants in NABU criminal cases testified against Zelensky. He added that these cases are related to the business partner of the head of the Kyiv regime, co-owner of the Kvartal 95 studio Timur Mindich, who was called "Zelensky's wallet."

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General Staff announces a new success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sumy region
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] M2 Bradley armored vehicle in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces Ukrainian troops carried out active operations in the areas of several settlements in the Sumy region.

Ukrainian military have achieved success in the Sumy region in the areas of several settlements. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00 on Monday, August 11.

In total, 65 combat clashes with Russian invaders have occurred on the front since the beginning of the day in 12 directions. Thus, in the Severo-Slobodskoye (Sumy region – ed.) and Kursk directions today the enemy carried out seven airstrikes, dropping 11 guided aerial bombs, and carried out 123 shellings, including five from MLRS.

"At the same time, our units carried out active operations in the areas of several populated areas of the Sumy region, and were successful, advancing up to 400 meters in some areas and inflicting losses on the enemy in manpower," the statement said.

In the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction, three armed clashes occurred in the areas of Vovchansk and Kolodeznoye.

In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy once tried to advance in the Stepnaya Novosyolovka area.

There were five armed clashes in the Liman direction, one of which is still ongoing. The enemy attacked in the areas of the settlements of Ridkodub, Karpovka, Kolodezi and in the direction of Yampol.

In the Seversky direction, the enemy launched an attack in the Grigoryevka area, which has already been successfully stopped.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy carried out offensive actions three times in the areas of Stupochki, Stepanovka and Rusiny Yar. One combat clash continues to this day.

In the Toretsk direction, two assaults were stopped in the areas of Toretsk and Shcherbinovka.

In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian troops have stormed the areas of the settlements of Poltavka, Popov Yar, Mayak, Dorozhnoye, Novoye Shakhovoye, Novoekonomicheskoye, Suhetskoye, Rodinskoye, Promen, Lisovka, Zvirovo, Orekhovoye, Dachnoye 23 times. Our defenders have already repelled 18 attacks, the fighting continues.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, nine enemy attacks have been repelled near the settlements of Volnoye Pole, Maliyevka, Voskresenka and in the direction of Ivanovka and Novoivanovka. Three more enemy attacks are ongoing.

In the Orekhov direction, the invader twice attempted to advance forward in the Kamenskoye area and in the direction of Novodanilovka.

In the Dnieper direction, the aggressor carried out six unsuccessful attacks.

The day before it became known that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had liberated the village of Bezsalivka in the Sumy region. Units of the 33rd separate assault regiment and the 24th separate assault battalion were involved in the operation.

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Advance to Dobropillya. Russia prepares new attacks
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] Russia is not preparing for a ceasefire and a ceasefire, but on the contrary, it continues to prepare for new offensive operations, said Volodymyr Zelensky.

The DeepState analytical center reports that Russian troops have intensified their advance in the direction of Dobropillya in recent days, in particular, they are trying to gain a foothold near the Dobropillya-Kramatorsk highway.

DANGEROUS DIRECTION
As reported by the DeepState project, the enemy, with the help of a superior number of infantry, entered the settlements of Kucherov Yar and Zolotoy Kolodets, where they are accumulating forces for a further offensive. From Kucherev Yar, the Russians advanced to the village of Vesyoloye, where about 20 Russian military personnel have been recorded over the past 24 hours.

At the same time, Russian units are trying to advance in the area of Novovodanoye and Petrovka, looking for weak spots in the defense to reach the Dobropolye-Kramatorsk highway.

"The situation is developing quite chaotically, because the enemy, having found gaps in the defense, is infiltrating deep, trying to quickly gain a foothold, to accumulate for further advancement, while some people in the command of a certain brigade either do not understand the full depth of the problem, or present the situation as "controlled", in which "everyone was killed, everyone was stopped." However, the military themselves, who are holding the defense there and trying to understand what is happening, do not agree with this," DeepState notes.

In the area of Zolotoy Kolodyaz, Shakhovoy and neighboring settlements, new engineering and fortification structures have been erected, however, as the military notes, the enemy can bypass them and use them for its own defense.

IMPORTANT ROUTE
DeepState warns that if Russian troops consolidate their positions in the captured villages and the offensive continues to develop, the situation could threaten to cause Dobropolye to fall more quickly than Pokrovsk.

"The enemy already has predetermined end points that it must reach, and today they are implementing their plans, trying to completely occupy Zolotoy Kolodets, Kucherov Yar, Veseloye and other settlements. After the final consolidation and accumulation, there will be mandatory attempts to move into the depths of the territory, and drone crews will be pulled up, which will complicate the restructuring of alternative logistics and the holding of surrounding positions for the Defense Forces. With such a development of events, if it does not change, we may face the fact that Dobropolye will fall faster than Pokrovsk."

The expansion of the "gut" that Russian troops formed on the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka road and extended north to Zolotoy Kolodets and Novovodanoye effectively means the final loss of this route. Until June 2025, it was the main transport artery between the cities, but it was closed after massive attacks by Russian drones on civilian and military transport.

In addition, this "gut" poses a serious threat to Dobropillya, a large settlement around which an eastern "pincer" is being formed to encircle the city, as well as to the still passable roads to it. Due to the rapid advance of the Russians, the distance to one of the key routes has been reduced to 10 kilometers, which, given the active use of FPV drones, poses a significant danger.

NEW ATTACKS
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the evening of August 11 that Ukrainian intelligence has no information that Russian troops have received signals to prepare for a post-war situation; on the contrary, they are planning offensive operations.

On Monday, the head of state heard a report from intelligence and military command about what Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is counting on and what he is actually preparing for.

"In particular, these are military preparations. He is certainly not preparing for a ceasefire and a ceasefire. Putin is only set on presenting the meeting with America as his personal victory and continuing to act as before, to put pressure on Ukraine as before. There is not a single sign that the Russians have received signals to prepare for a post-war situation, not yet. On the contrary, they are moving their troops and forces in such a way as to begin new offensive operations," the president said.

Zelensky added that Ukraine continues to inform its partners about the real situation on the battlefield, in diplomacy and in Russia's planning for further actions.

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Novoshakhtinsk resident convicted of participating in terrorist organization
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Novoshakhtinsk resident Kirill Solonin to 14 years in prison for involvement in a terrorist organization and cooperation with foreigners.

The case of Kirill Solonov was heard by the Southern District Military Court. The man was charged with participation in a terrorist community and participation in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.4 and Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of Russia) and confidential cooperation with a foreign state (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia).

According to the prosecution, Solonov studied the ideology of the nationalist paramilitary group "Russian Volunteer Corps",
…a unit of the Ukrainian army for naturalized Russian…
recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization. In November 2022, while in Novoshakhtinsk, he sent his personal data to the organization's email address, stating that he was ready to join it and act in its interests, the court's press service reported today. 

The investigation and the court found that Solonov, in an attempt to gain the trust of the organization's representatives, took upon himself in correspondence with them the arson of a police station in Novoshakhtinsk, which he had read about on the Internet. 

On May 30, 2023, in correspondence with a member of the organization, Solonov "confirmed his willingness to continue participating" in its activities, again giving him his personal data and a photo of his passport. The investigation believes that he intended to use the skills he acquired during his military service and gleaned from online publications about combat operations. 

In court, Solonov fully admitted his guilt, according to a message from the official Telegram channel of the Southern District Military Court. He was sentenced to 14 years in a strict regime penal colony with the first three years to be served in prison.

The court has been considering Kirill Solonov's case since March. A year before the case was transferred to court, on March 14, 2024, the Novoshakhtinsk native's data was entered into the Rosfinmonitoring register of terrorists and extremists. Solonov turned 30 in May of this year.

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Current information on the situation on the front line on August 11 (updated)
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[NewsFront] 22:39 Area of the settlement of Kovsharovka near Kupyansk. Work of the calculation of the "wing" of the Group of Forces "West": adjustment of the Russian Aerospace Forces with subsequent recording of the strike, –video.

20:18 From 14.50 to 17.10 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:

Three over the territory of the Orenburg region and
Two over the territory of the Samara region

19:54 Su-34 aircraft crews and UAV crews inflicted a comprehensive strike on the area of concentration of the mechanized battalion of the 144th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sumy region using the UMPK-500 and the Geran-2 UAV-500.

As a result of the strike, up to 50 militants, an ammunition depot, up to 10 units of foreign military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including two Abrams tanks, four Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, various vehicles and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.

19:50 The Russian Armed Forces are advancing towards the settlement of Kolodezi in the Krasnolimansky direction –MAP

17:08 Rocket artillerymen of the 79th Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade of the West Group of Forces struck a rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group in the area where the special operation is being conducted.

16:04 Crews of T-80BVM tanks of the Sever group are hitting personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in border areas, –video.

14:47 Snipers of the 51st Guards Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military Districtare arranging ambushes on Ukrainian Armed Forces hexacopters, destroying them with precise shots from small arms in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.

13:21 From 07.20 to 13.00 by air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 20 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territories of the Kaluga and Bryansk regions, the Moscow region and over the Black Sea.

12:25 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of August 11, 2025

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.

Units of the North group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, ranger, two airborne assault brigades, an airborne assault regiment, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Sadki, Stepnoye, Andreyevka, Varachino, Pershe Travnya, Proletarskoye and Yunakovka in the Sumy region.

In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized, motorized infantry brigades, the assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two territorial defense brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Sinelnikovo, Novaya Kazachya, Khatneye, Kreydyanka and Melove in the Khar'kov region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 170 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, 18 cars, two field artillery guns, an electronic warfare station, and two supply depots.

Units of the "West" group of forces have taken up more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of three mechanized and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been defeated in the areas of the settlements of Cherneshchyna, Kupyansk, Petrovskoye, Borovskoye, Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region and Shandrigolovo in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy's losses amounted to 225 servicemen, two US-made MaxxPro and UK-made Snatch armored combat vehicles, 17 vehicles and two NATO-made artillery pieces. A Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 multiple launch rocket system launcher, a Plastun electronic intelligence station, four Israeli-made RADA RPS-42 radar stations and five ammunition depots were destroyed.

Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved their position along the front line. Manpower and equipment of four mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Malotaranovka, Fedorovka, Svyatogorsk, Seversk, Minkovka, Vasyukovka, Chervone, Zvanovka and Kleban-Byk of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy lost more than 200 troops, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, four armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, two field artillery guns, two electronic warfare stations, a counter-battery radar station, and an ammunition depot.

Units of the Center group of forces, as a result of active actions, completed the liberation of the settlement of Lunacharskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.

Formations of four mechanized, a ranger, an assault, an airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, naval infantry brigades of marines, a territorial defense brigade, two brigades of the National Guard and a joint brigade of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Dimitrov, Dobropolye, Rodynskoye, Udachnoye, Artemovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Grodovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Novopavlovka and Filiya of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to 410 servicemen, five combat armored vehicles, 11 cars, five field artillery guns and an electronic warfare station.

Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. The manpower and equipment of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and two territorial defense brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Zeleny Gai, Aleksandrograd of the Donetsk People's Republic, Sosnovka, Velikomikhailovka, Tikhoe, Voronoe of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Olgovskoye and Poltavka of the Zaporizhia region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 255 servicemen, five armored combat vehicles and 11 cars.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of a mechanized brigade, three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Primorskoye, Magdalynivka, Orekhov, Novodanilovka in the Zaporizhia region, Nikolskoye, Kazatskoye and Antonovka in the Kherson region.

Up to 75 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 14 cars, an artillery piece, seven electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed.

Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged assembly and storage sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, ammunition depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 140 districts.

Air defense systems shot down seven US-made HIMARS multiple launch rockets and 312 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:

665 aircraft,

283 helicopters,

76,497 unmanned aerial vehicles,

625 anti-aircraft missile systems,

24,539 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,

1,585 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems,

28,387 field artillery pieces and mortars,

39,500 units of special military vehicles.

12:10 Units of the Center group of forces as a result of active actions finished liberation of the settlement of Lunacharskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.

11:32 Russian assault groups have advanced into the southwestern part of Yunakovka in the Sumy region, –MAP.

11:05 On frames: We are observing a strike by a Lancet UAV on a communications tower equipment cabinet (designed to control UAVs) in the area of the village of Ivanovka in the Chernihiv region.

10:47 Ministry of Defense RF:

FPV drone operators of the Tula paratroopers destroyed four Ukrainian Armed Forces pickup trucks in the Sumy region.

Strike drone crews of the Dnepr group hit a dugout containing up to 5 enemy personnel in the Zaporizhia region.

UAV operators of a motorized rifle brigade of the 51st combined arms army of the Southern Military District used FPV drones as aerial platforms for hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.

FPV drone crews of the special forces unit of the "Center" group hit repeater antennas and electronic intelligence units, armored vehicles and cars trying to transport reinforcements to militants in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.

Drone operators of the Vostok group destroyed a firing point and enemy manpower in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

Units of the Southern Group of Forces carried out precise strikes on enemy UAV control points.

09:37 The Geran-2 UAV crews destroyed the launch position of the enemy's S-300V air defense missile system in the area of the settlement of Vorozhba.

08:12 During the morning, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed seven Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:

Four UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,▫️
Two UAVs – over the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region,
One UAV – over the territory of the Belgorod region.

07:34 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:

Russian Armed Forces entered Shandrigolovo
Expansion of the control zone south of Orekhovo
Predtechino liberated

07:27 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 32 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:

Seven UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
Five UAVs each – over the territories of the Bryansk and Kaluga regions,
Four UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
Two UAVs each – over the territories of the Oryol, Kursk, Voronezh, Ryazan regions, the Moscow region,▫️
One UAV – over the territory of the Tula region


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FSB: Ukrainian special services involved in murder of Stavropol vice-mayor Gurtsiev
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The man who committed the explosion in the city of Stavropol, which killed the city's deputy mayor Zaur Gurtsiev, acted under the influence of the Ukrainian special services. This was reported by the Federal Security Service.

A Russian man named Penkov fell victim to telephone scammers from Ukraine and transferred his money to them. After that, he began to receive calls from FSB representatives, who threatened him by saying that the transferred funds were used to sponsor the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for which a criminal case was opened against the man.

“In order to avoid criminal liability, the curator informed Penkov that he needed to carry out a number of instructions to whitewash the crime he had committed,” TASS quoted an FSB representative as saying.

Following the instructions of his Ukrainian handlers, on May 28 he blew up the deputy mayor, hiding the explosive device in his chest bag. At the same time, the perpetrator himself thought that there was a dictaphone in it.

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Agricultural lands of Trump
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] A few more feverish fantasies of Trump.

1. The Russians would be in Kyiv in 4 hours if they drove on the highway. But the Russian general decided to drive through agricultural fields. I don't know who this general is, but, knowing Vladimir, he is most likely gone

2. In Ukraine, 88% of residents want a peace deal with Russia according to polls. I can leave and wish him luck, and then the peace talks on Ukraine will come to an end.

3. The meeting in Alaska with Putin will be rather preliminary. Putin is coming to our country, unlike us, who are coming to his country. within the first couple of minutes of the meeting with Putin, he will understand whether a deal on Ukraine is possible.

4. The next meeting will be with Zelensky and Putin or Zelensky, Putin and I. I want to arrange a meeting between the two leaders. I think that my meeting with Putin will be good, but it might be bad. I will sit them both, Zelensky and Putin, in the same room and wait for them to solve the problem. The meeting in Alaska with Putin will be rather preliminary.

5. Zelensky got approval to start a war and kill everyone in a row, but he needs approval to exchange land. There will be some land exchange. Russia has occupied some important territories, and we will try to return part of this territory to Ukraine.

6. "Russia is a warring country. That's what they do, they wage many wars. My friend said that Russia is tough because they just keep fighting. They defeated Hitler and Napoleon. They've been doing it for a long time." I allow the normalization of trade relations between the Russian Federation and the USA.

More from Boris Rozohin:
Question of exchange of territories

The issue of territory exchange


If even such ghouls as Lindsey Graham have already talked about the inevitable "territory exchange", this means that the preparation for the transfer of the remains of the Donbass to the Russian Federation is in full swing, and now backstage bargaining is at the forefront. The differences in the current positions are as follows.

1. At the current stage, the Russian Federation demands from the West a full handover to the control of the LDNR (with subsequent legal recognition) for a ceasefire and the start of negotiations. And then they change the occupied districts of Kharkiv, Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions to the remaining parts of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. The implementation of this scheme will allow to achieve diplomatically all the officially declared territorial goals of the SVO.

2. The USA and Co. offer to exchange the remaining part of the LDPR (about 20% of the territory) for the territories of the Kharkiv and Sumy regions occupied by the Russian Armed Forces (approximately 7,200 square km by 2,500 square km) with a freeze on the rest of the front line for the start of negotiations.

This, of course, is not very beneficial for the Russian Federation, as it does not solve the problem with the occupation of Kherson and Zaporozhye. In current realities, the more intense the Russian Armed Forces will occupy the territory in Donbass, the more likely option 1 will be, and the less likely option 2.

The USA may agree to option 1 with some changes under certain schedules, but the cocaine fuhrer and his sponsors are clearly drowning in option 2, realizing that it is not beneficial to the Russian Federation.

PS. The enemy expects an intensification of the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Zaporozhye Region and Donbass in the coming weeks.

Plus, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to scare the enemy with a possible landing in the Naval District of Kherson.

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Russian FSB prevented the recruitment by Ukrainian special services of five Russian pensioners as living bombs
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North Koreans tell BBC they are being sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia
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