Recruitment campaigns are apparently underway in the self-proclaimed People's Republics.
Ukrainian forces shell a strategically important bridge: the situation in the news ticker.
New weapons:
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President Zelenskyj expects more heavy weapons.
In Ukraine, Russia is said to have fired on a nuclear power plant again: Russia is suspected of having misappropriated the area.
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Some of the information comes from warring factions in the Ukraine war and cannot be checked directly and independently.
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Ukrainian army troops are currently apparently shooting at a bridge in the occupied Cherson region.
This is reported by the Russian news
agency Interfax
, citing local officials.
The Ukrainian army fired at the bridge last week using US military “HIMARS” missiles, possibly in preparation for a counteroffensive.
The structure is one of two crossings of the Dnipro River.
The bridge is considered a strategically important connection for the Russian army.
The above information cannot be independently verified.
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A Ukrainian MSLR BM-21 "Grad", a multiple rocket launcher system, fires on Russian positions.
(archive photo)
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Mobilization actions are currently taking place in the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk.
These should primarily affect those who are unfit for service.
This is reported by the US think tank “Institute for the Study of War” in a status report.
The report refers to information from the Ukrainian secret service.
It is primarily about setting up new motorized rifle battalions.
This cannot be verified independently.
The Ukraine War in Pictures - Destruction, Resistance and Hope
The Ukraine War in Pictures - Destruction, Resistance and Hope
Update from Monday, August 8th, 7 a.m.:
According to a report by the
Kyiv Independent
news portal, the mayor of Kharkiv reported seven explosions in Kharkiv.
Ihor Terekhov said the city had been hit by Russian missiles.
No injuries were reported.
"It's very noisy in the city. I'm asking everyone to stay safe," Terekhov said.
The governor of the Sumy region reported more than 50 explosions.
Dmytro Zhyvytsky said that Russian troops shelled the north of the Sumy region.
The region bordering Russia is under constant fire, the governor reported.
Ukraine war: Selenskyj expects "good news" - nuclear authority warns after attack
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While heavy fighting continues to rage in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, announced “good news” in his daily video address on Sunday (August 7th).
"News from partners regarding the aid packages" is expected in the coming week.
This means new deliveries of arms from the West, which are a "key" for Ukraine's successful defense against Russia.
He also reiterated his accusations against Russia for shelling the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
He then called for a “principled response from the world community”.
The power plant came under fire again on Sunday.
Russia and Ukraine blame each other for the shelling.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is calling on both sides to allow international nuclear experts unhindered access to the facility.
Ukraine War: Russia moves equipment to Belarus and reports destroyed ammunition stores
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Russian soldiers are said to have destroyed tons of NATO military aid in targeted attacks on weapons depots in the south and east of Ukraine.
This is reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense, citing army information.
In the Mykolaiv region west of Cherson, for example, a warehouse with a total of 45,000 tons of ammunition was destroyed, and five other weapons warehouses, one of them in Donetsk, were hit.
The information could not be independently verified.
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According to the Ukrainian general staff, Russia continues to transfer significant amounts of war technology to Belarus.
Additional military forces would also be brought into the country, which shares around 1,000 kilometers of borders with each of the two warring states.
The development in the border area with the western Ukrainian region of Volhynia is particularly striking.
In addition to additional forces, air defense equipment would also be stationed here on Belarusian territory.
Although the former Soviet republic of Belarus is not an official party to the war under the authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, the first rocket launches from Belarusian territory were confirmed just a few days after the start of the war.
Belarusian opposition figures who have fled abroad accuse Lukashenko, a close partner of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, and his power apparatus in Belarus of collaboration.
Ukraine war: Nuclear authority warns of "nuclear catastrophe" - Zelenskyj asks for help
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According to the latest reports about the shelling of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has called for a stronger international reaction to Russia’s “nuclear terror”.
During a phone conversation with the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, Zelenskyy asks for help in the form of sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry.
This is what the Ukrainian head of state wrote on Twitter.
War in Ukraine: Russia fires on nuclear power plant again – “nuclear catastrophe” looming
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As the Ukrainian energy company Energoatom reports on Telegram, the Russian military is said to have fired on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant again last night.
During a rocket attack on the city of Enerhodar, the railings of the nuclear power plant were also hit.
An employee was injured by shrapnel and is now in hospital.
The explosions shattered the plant's windows over an area of 800 square meters.
Zaporizhia has been occupied by Russian troops since March.
Energoatom reports that about 500 Russians and Rosatom employees hid in bunkers before the attack.
"Their target was clearly the containers with spent fuel elements that are stored in the open near the hit facilities," writes the energy company on Telegram.
The missile hit destroyed three radiation monitoring sensors.
A possible worsening of the radiation situation is no longer recognizable in time.
Energoatom is therefore asking for a demilitarized zone to be set up around the nuclear power plant.
"We urgently need to stop the actions of Russian nuclear terrorists in order to protect Ukraine and the world from a nuclear catastrophe," the company writes.
Ukraine War: Russia War Engineering to Belarus
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According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russia is continuing to move war technology to neighboring Belarus.
Among other things, in the border area with the western Ukrainian region of Volhynia, additional air defense forces and equipment would be stationed on Belarusian territory, the general staff in Kyiv announced on Sunday.
This could not initially be verified independently.
The former Soviet Republic of Belarus has never officially entered Russia's war.
Ukraine-News: Russia starts "forced mobilization" of the civilian population
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Russia begins the military mobilization of the civilian population in the Donbass areas.
This is reported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on Telegram.
For example, two buses are said to have been filled with men and taken away from a market in Luhansk in less than 40 minutes.
Something similar happened in the city of Alchevsk.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine speaks of a "forced mobilization" that is increasingly aimed at those unfit for military service and those who had previously been "deferred".
Ukraine War: Zelenskyy praises his army's "strong results" - using Western weapons
Update from Sunday, August 7th, 6:30
a.m.: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has praised his armed forces for successful counterattacks - and emphasized the role of Western weapons.
In the past week, the Ukrainian army has achieved "strong results" in the destruction of Russian war logistics, Zelenskyj said in his video address on Sunday night.
"Any attack on the enemy's ammunition depots, on their command posts and on accumulations of Russian technology saves the lives of all of us, the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians."
Ukraine-News: Another attack on nuclear power plant – Zelenskyj sees “nuclear threat”
Update from Saturday, August 6th, 7:00 a.m.:
"Anyone who creates nuclear threats for other peoples is definitely not able to use nuclear technology safely," said Ukrainian President Selenskyj on Saturday night.
Specifically, he demanded punitive measures against the Russian state-owned company Rosatom.
He holds Russia responsible for the shelling of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia.
Meanwhile, Russian forces are said to have shelled a farm and a grain silo in Zaporizhia Oblast.
Russian shelling in the Novomykolaivsky district of the region destroyed grain silos with about 3,000 tons of grain, reports Ukrinform, citing the director of the silo.
Russian shelling also reportedly hit agricultural infrastructure, destroying a warehouse containing over 365 tons of sunflowers.
Ukraine war: Another attack on nuclear power plant – Russia blames Ukraine
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After the three artillery hits on the site of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, Russia has now spoken out.
As after the first attack, Russia blamed Ukraine for the artillery strike,
AFP
reports.
"Armed Ukrainian groups carried out three artillery strikes at the site of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (...) and in the city of Enerhodar," the Russian army statement said.
Previously, Ukraine had reported shelling from Russia.
Vladimir Putin's troops called on "international organizations to condemn the criminal actions of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's regime, which commits acts of nuclear terrorism".
The power plant has been under Russian occupation since the beginning of March.
Moscow was recently criticized for this from the ranks of the USA.
Foreign Minister Antony Blinken said that Russia "knows very well that Ukraine cannot and will not fire back because it could accidentally hit a nuclear reactor or high-level radioactive waste stored there".
News about the Ukraine war: concerns about nuclear power plants continue to grow
First report from Friday, August 5:
Zaporizhia - According to British intelligence services, actions by the Russian armed forces are highly likely to endanger the security of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhia.
Moscow's intentions regarding the largest nuclear power plant in Europe are "still unclear" five months after the start of the Ukraine war, the British Ministry of Defense said in an update on Friday (5 August).
Russia is said to be using artillery units in the areas adjacent to the power plant to attack Ukrainian regions west of the Dnipro River.
They may have used the high-security status of the power plant site to protect themselves and their equipment from Ukrainian counterattacks at night, sources said.
Ukraine War News: Nuclear Safety Principles “Violated”
With six blocks and an output of 6000 megawatts, the plant in the city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhia Oblast is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
Russian troops occupied the facility in early March.
After that, the nuclear power plant continued to be operated by Ukrainian personnel, but was monitored by Russian nuclear specialists.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has described the situation at the nuclear power plant as extremely unstable and fragile.
"All the principles of nuclear safety have been violated in one way or another," Rafael Grossi said in New York this week.
An IAEA inspection to check technical safety is urgently needed.
(nak/ska/luc/aa with dpa/AFP)
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