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The Pentagon will allocate Ukraine a new package of military assistance worth one billion dollars. It will include Javelin and ammunition for HIMARS MLRS and NASAMS air defense, medical armored vehicles and medicines. The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired more than 300 shells with Petal antipersonnel mines and 13 shells of 155 mm NATO caliber at the DPR. The SBU announced the prevention of the murder of the head of the Ministry of Defense, which Russia allegedly prepared. Deputy Chief of the People’s Militia of the DPR Eduard Basurin announced the irretrievable loss of 193 thousand fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Read the previous broadcast here.
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13:25 “Ukrtransnafta” stopped the transit of Russian oil.
13:22The main thing from the morning briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:
– The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the existing buried command post of the Air Forces of Ukraine near the Vinnytsia region;
– The battalion of the 14th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 340 people killed and wounded, the remaining military voluntarily left their positions;
– The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed more than 300 shells for MLRS HIMARS and M777 howitzers with precision weapons;
– Russian air defense shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft and three UAVs, and intercepted 17 HIMARS MLRS shells;
– In four weeks, as a result of the offensive of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the forces of the LPR and DPR, the number of mercenaries in Ukraine decreased from 2,741 to 2,192 people.Russian troops destroyed 335 foreign mercenaries from July 8 to August 5, and 389 more left the territory of Ukraine. In particular, almost 100 Polish mercenaries, 36 militants from Canada, 33 from Romania, 21 from the USA were killed.
– Over the past weeks, 175 more foreign mercenaries have arrived in Ukraine, including 81 militants from Georgia.
13:07 “Stop issuing tourist visas to Russians. Visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaya Kallas wrote on social networks.
12:47The Kremlin appreciated the possibility of a meeting between Putin and Zelensky at the G20.
12:22The Allied forces repulsed all the APU counterattacks on the Knauf plant in Soledar, Vitaly Kiselyov, Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), said on Tuesday in his Telegram channel.
11:53Two people were killed as a result of the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, according to the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR.
11:30The expert explained the US statement about a sufficient number of HIMARS in Kiev.
11:28The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk People’s Republic is negotiating the participation of builders from the DPRK in the restoration of DPR facilities. This was announced on Tuesday on the air of the TV channel “Solovyov Live” by the head of the republic Denis Pushilin.
11:06 The pro-Russian head who was in a coma, Vladimir Saldo, regained consciousness, but continues to be in the Skif on a ventilator. At the same time, doctors excluded from the diagnosis the point about “poisoning with an unknown substance”.
10:51 Chief of the Canadian General Staff Wayne Eyre refused to discuss the presence of the country’s military in Ukraine because of the sensitivity of the issue.
10:20 A young writer from Lugansk, Faina Savenkova, appealed to the international non-governmental organization Amnesty International with a request to investigate the murders of children by the Ukrainian army in Donetsk and other cities of the LPR and DPR.
09:15 Deputy Head of the regional administration Kirill Stremousov said that the Kherson region is ready to repel the attempts of the APU offensive if such an order is given to them by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky
08:48 State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that despite anti-Russian sanctions, 77.6% of foreign companies do not they began to close their business in Russia.