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[Regnum] Fraudsters have developed a new scam. They're tricking people into giving away their banking app codes under the guise of updating their SIM cards. The FSB reported this on August 7.
According to the agency, residents of the Penza region
…in central Russia on the Sura River, 625 kilometers southeast of Moscow…
have begun receiving a large number of calls from scammers. The scammers pose as mobile operator employees and claim to need to update their SIM cards. To do so, they allegedly require a digital code via SMS. Using this code, the scammers gain access to the victims' banking apps and then transfer a small amount of money to their accounts.
After this, the second part of the fraudulent scheme begins. Another scammer calls the victims, posing as an FSB officer, and demands that they transfer the remaining funds to a supposedly secure account. He then offers to return the funds in exchange for participating in sabotage or providing information about major enterprises in the region. In an interview with TASS, an FSB representative noted that the scammers are likely working on behalf of Ukrainian nationalist armed groups.
Previously, the Ministry of Internal Affairs uncovered a scam tactic used on classifieds websites. The scammers demanded advance payment, missed delivery deadlines, and claimed their cards had been blocked. They then accused buyers of fraud to extort additional funds. A scam involving plastic cards left in ATMs was also reported. The scammer and his partner accused the person who found the card of stealing it and demanded money on the spot.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of @opersvodki
Commentary by RUssian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] FSB officers detained more than 20 employees of illegal cryptocurrency exchanges in Moscow, through which fraudulent Ukrainian call centers were transferring stolen funds abroad.
The FSB, in cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, disrupted nine foreign-coordinated channels for transferring funds abroad using cryptocurrency. More than 20 employees of unregistered cryptocurrency exchange offices were detained in the Moscow City business center in Moscow.
These offices were used by Ukrainian call centers to launder funds stolen from Russian citizens through remote fraud. These exchange offices sold cryptocurrency to individuals, including pensioners, who were under the influence of the scammers and transferred it to the accounts of Ukrainian handlers.
Young people with limited financial literacy, seeking easy money, were recruited from Russian regions to work remotely at the crypto exchanges. Also detained were accomplices of Ukrainian call centers, aged 18 to 25. They acted as couriers, receiving funds from defrauded citizens and transferring them to crypto exchangers for further transfer to Ukraine.
Criminal cases have been opened under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code (large-scale fraud). The crypto exchanger employees and couriers are charged with complicity in the crime and face up to 10 years in prison.
It is also reported that up to $2,000,000 per day could be transferred to Ukraine through them. Ten years seems a bit short. Those seeking easy money are clearly condemned to hard labor beyond the Arctic Circle. For 20-25 years. Spoken like a true Soviet, Borya
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[Korrespondent] 22.58 At the 425th assault regiment of Skel, the transfer of part of the military services to other units was confirmed for command decisions. They stated that the fighters would continue to conquer the battlefields on all important fronts. The regiment was informed about this by commentator Suspilny.
"Organizational decisions to divide the special warehouse between military units fall under the competence of the high military command and warehouse management of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the minds of the war. The regiment wins everything the orders that result in the movement of a special warehouse have been lifted,” Skeli said.
The regiment heard that their military service members had undergone extensive training on the basis of Skel’s regiment, obtained combat evidence and today’s valuable personnel resource of the Ukrainian army.
“As the command of the ZSU praises the decision to empower them with other brigades, we accept this as Skel’s contribution to the important defense of the state. Skel’s regiment and further prepared military servicemen, retired the military command of the commander-in-chief and for the needs put on the shoulders of other units of the Defense Forces,” the regiment said.
22.31 Russian troops attacked with a drone the territory of one of the doctors in Kherson, four medical doctors were injured. Women 53, 56, 65 and 67 years old suffered from mine-vibuchal injuries and contusions. After providing necessary medical assistance for stench, continue treatment on an outpatient basis.
20.59 Russian troops hit a Tornado-S volley fire rocket system at a logistics intersection in the Slovyansk Donetsk region, as a result of which a person died and five others were wounded. Three dozen private buildings were destroyed, and several cars were destroyed.
20.20 Over the course of the last 48 years, the forces of unmanned self-propelled gun systems, in cooperation with other warehouses of the Defense Forces, hit 10 electrical stations, six vessels of the “shadow fleet” of the Russian Federation, an FSB base and Russian warehouses occupiers. Zagalom 102 goals. The commander of the SBS ZSU, Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, told about this.
Amid the attacks on the targets, six vessels of Russia's "shadow fleet" landed in the waters of the Black and Azov seas, two tankers and several dry water vessels were captured. Around this, the drone strikes destroyed and damaged all the enemy deployment points, two warehouses with ammunition and burning materials, two radar systems, the Buk anti-aircraft missile system, fuel filling stations, locomotives, five connections and three relay stations with strike drones.
There was a new point of deployment of a special warehouse of the FSB of the Russian Federation under the name Benya House near the settlement of Shchaslivtsev in the Kherson region. Also affected were the repair bases of military equipment, warehouses for material and technical supplies and training grounds for occupiers near Novoozerny, Apricot and New Life in Crimea and Vovchansky Zaporizhzhya region.
Between the operation Crimean switch off for the remaining two additions, SBS units brought out 10 more energy nodes and power stations in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, and also on the territory of the hourly occupied Crimea.
19.53 In Russia, prices for the market for ritual services have risen to a record level. The production rate of corn on the cob imported into Ukraine jumped by 105%. Thus, for the 2026 year of the year, the average price in the Russian Federation was 9,167 rubles, compared to 4,469 rubles for the 2022 year.
According to Rosstat statistics, grave digging is more expensive: in the year of 2022, this service cost 7,849 rubles, in the year of 2025 - 12,576 rubles.
The demand for ritual services in Russia is growing due to the growing expenditure of the Russian army in Ukraine, which has become a record for all wars from the Other World.
19.21 The Uzhgorod Municipal Court of the Transcarpathian region issued two additional cases to one of the district TCCs and joint ventures. They were victorious on the illegal "write-off" of over 1000 people.
Journalist Vitaliy Glagola told us what to say about Evgen Pilguy, who favored the RTCC from Mukacheva from 2021 to 2024. Igor Godzinets took over the position of the protector of the Mukachivsky TCC until 2024. After being discharged, he worked as a shift supervisor at the mitnitsa.
18.47 Ukrainian naval drones attacked the town of Yalta in the instantly occupied Crimea just before the hour of high-ranking Russian military officers meeting at the restaurant. This was reported on the Crimean Wind Telegram channel.
18.20 The Ministry of Internal Affairs has received information to expand social services before repatriation visits are completed and 1210 dead Ukrainians are returned to Ukraine Zakhisnikiv. About this, having informed the Respect for the food of the people, who fell into obscurity for special circumstances, Arthur Dobroserdov.
In other words, information about the completed repatriation and early identification of several deceased military servicemen does not correspond to effectiveness.
"Such repatriation visits were not carried out. Information about the establishment of the identities of the surrounding military services also does not indicate effectiveness. Particularly cynical are those who are up to such fake “We will inform you with nicknames, photographs and some kind of “lists”, we will relive our homeland again and experience hope and hope again,” Dobroserdov said.
We note that the images that accompany similar posts in TikTok and other social networks show signs of generation behind the help of artificial intelligence. This, in other words, is confirmed by the results of verification using specialized software.
We voiced reassurance that, in addition to the war on the battlefield, Russia is waging an information war, one of the purposes of which is the psychological pressure on the homeland of those who have fallen into obscurity and captivity.
17.53 Two soldiers were injured as a result of the repeated attack of the Russians on the Zaporizhzhya region. The enemy took the fire from the burning car, when the ritualists extinguished the fire after the enemy’s first blow.
At the hour of the attack, the ruler's dispute in the territory of a private home with further occupation was crushed.
17.35 Russian aggressors massively attacked Ukrnafta facilities, striking seven oil and gas production facilities at the gathering of Ukraine during the night. Naftogaz informed about this.
17.11 The commander of an artillery division of one of the military units, which is concluding combat missions on the Kharkov direct, was informed about the suspicion of the presence of vibukhovs and components to ammunition. The Office of the Prosecutor General informs you about this.
As it turned out, military service personnel sold over 100 kg of TNT and fueled ammunition for cannon artillery, extinguishing 240 thousand. UAH
17.06 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin may try to test NATO’s readiness for collective defense by launching an attack on one of the countries of the Alliance between this fall and 2029. The Wall Street Journal writes about this, relying on US intelligence data.
Behind the words of the American soldiers, various scenarios can be seen - from cyber attacks and hybrid operations to a local invasion of the territory of powers similar to the flank of NATO.
17.01 Operators of the gas station Group 13 held a “marine parade” to preserve the timely recuperation of Crimea. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region reported this.
The special features renewed the long-standing Christmastide tradition that began and took hold in the city of Yalta, according to the intelligence agency.
16.47 Law enforcement authorities uncovered an interregional scheme in which military servicemen were helped to illegally deprive the local authorities of service and re-seat. The Office of the Prosecutor General was informed about this.
The scheme was organized by a military service member and three civilians. The stench was illegally suspended from service in parts and primary centers in the territory of Mykolayiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev and Zhytomyr regions.
The value of such “services” ranged from 2 to 8 thousand dollars per person.
16.40 Fifteen years of connection with the confiscation of the mine was traced by an agent of the Russian military intelligence (mostly known as the GRU), who carried out missile attacks on Kharkov in 2023.
The aim of hostile attacks was on recruiting Russians from the local robotic government. He was caught under the radar of the Russian intelligence service if he published anti-Ukrainian messages in various chats of Telegram channels.
After recruitment, the criminal gradually walked around the place in order to identify, record and transfer to the curator from the Russian Federation the geolocation of the points of the hourly base of the Ukrainian military. At the same time, the health resort is attempting to refurbish the technical equipment of defense production plants, salvage stations and car depots.
The SBU intelligence officers documented the agent’s misdeeds and caught him “in the heat” when they carried out additional reconnaissance near the military facility.
16.22 The European Union confirmed new sanctions against Russia in response to increased attacks on Ukraine. The new list includes five individuals associated with the Russian military-industrial complex and accountable for the outbreak of the outbreak.
16.11 Russia attacked the Chornomorets stadium in Odessa. In the arena in the center of the place they noticed the ruins of the walls, the slopes and the stands. Ulamkov's wounds were taken away by a 29-year-old woman. Victims are provided with all necessary assistance.
15.57 Representatives of the Russian elite are afraid that the Federal Security Service “has gone out of control”, since ruler Volodymyr Putin entrusts the special services with the control of his power in the ongoing war against Ukraine and internal problems. About this write Bloomberg with messages on spіvrozmovniki, known from their diet.
Spyrozmovniks say that earlier Putin tried to maintain a balance between the security forces with harsh views and officials oriented towards economical development. However, there will soon be an influx of groups in Russian rule that advocate strict control over the state. The FSB has actually become the key structure of the government of the region.
Of particular importance was another department of the FSB, which is responsible for the fight against terrorism and the protection of the political order of the Russian Federation. This has been undermined, as spivrozmovniks say, having effectively denied the ability to conduct investigations against anyone without significant control.
The atmosphere of repression is spreading both among the elite and among the Russian middle class. According to the experts, “everyone is afraid, because no one knows who to come for.”
15.22 President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed strengthening the defense of the Donetsk region with the head commander of the ZSU Mikhail Drapatim. The head of the state told about this on Telegram.
The meeting also spoke about personnel supply, “which will be required by the authorities,” the president said.
15.17 A new version of the Russian drone Gerber was discovered in Ukraine - it is significantly larger in front. Serhiy Flesh Beskrestnov, the adviser to the President of Ukraine, informed about this about the development of technological areas of defense.
The flash was ahead of the fact that a new version of Gerbury has appeared in the sky, which is significantly more expensive.
The military is asked to inform you about the discovery after the fall in order to trace the device.
15.15 At the Russian town of Bryansk on Friday, the 7th sickle, a moon broke out, after which a large-scale fire began. According to the latest information, fire has broken out near the warehouses and Bryansk mitnitsa. The statue of a black fire towered over the place.
Bryansk has a low level of strategic objectives in the Russian Federation. Among them are the Kremniy El microelectronics plant, a chemical plant, a machine and automobile plant, military plants, and a large railway station, which is used for the transfer of troops to the front in Ukraine.
15.01 As a result of the Russian shelling of the town of Izyum in the Kharkiv region, two people died and four more were injured. The military administration informed about this.
14.55 Most Ukrainians believe that the war may end no earlier than the other half of 2027. With 60% of the food, we are ready to endure as long as necessary. To compare the results of the study at the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS). According to the survey data, only 21% of Ukrainians believe that the war would like to end before the end. And even more than 15% will be expected by the end of the war in the first half of 2027. At the end of the war, 45% will occur in the other half of the year 2027 or later. As before, a significant portion (19%) do not have any special thoughts about this diet. Thus, it is important for Ukrainians to be attuned to those who have been facing war for a long time.
14.32 Riverman of the consolidated United Forces Viktor Tregubov, stating that Russian statements about the possibility of reaching the White Well on the Pivdenno-Slobozhansky direct line do not indicate effectiveness, fragments The military forces of the Russian Federation are lost at least 10 kilometers from the populated area. I talked about this on television.
According to Tregubov, it is clear that the new entry of Russian troops into Pivdenno-Slobozhanskoye was directly recorded at the exit from Vovchansky Khutoriv.
“There are so many titles directly to Bily Kolodyaz. The irony lies in the fact that there is actually no attempt to go to that same Bily Kolodyaz, because the Russians there simply went several kilometers deep,” Tregubov said.
“All Russian celebrities are giving absolutely schizophrenic data, even if it’s passed on to Pivdenno-Slobozhansky directly... Until that same White Kolodyaz, to such a stink they already came and took him again 10 kilometers less,” the riverman added.
14.22 Law enforcement blocked that new schemes for evasion of mobilization and affected many of the organizers of equipment in the Kharkiv, Kirovograd and Vinnytsia regions. The SBU reports this. It turns out that for a pittance they helped the military workers to win the prize in various ways, through subdivisions of medical equipment, fictitious practice and fake science. Some organizers transported their “clients” across the border, bypassing checkpoints.
13.48 Ukrainian drones attacked the port near the resort town of Yalta in the instantly occupied Crimea. Monitoring Telegram channels inform you about this.
13.26 A doctor died, who was wounded as a result of the massive shelling of Kiev by the 5th sickle. KMVA told about this. In this manner, two people died in the capital and another 26 were injured.
13.09 Russian troops with a stretch of doby attacked Kherson that region with drones. As a result of the enemy's blows, a 77-year-old woman died, and was still found to be injured. The results of the shelling were reported by the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin, and the press service of the Kherson OVA.
12.39 The Lipnya Sil defenses have destroyed over 5,300 airborne targets and destroyed over 48,000 tactical UAVs. The ZSU forces informed about this.
12.17 Russian troops hit the Zaporizhzhya region with an FPV drone. As a result of their injuries, a civilian died. The head of the OVA, Ivan Fedorov, told us about this.
“A Russian FPV drone hit the village of Kushugum. A 58-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman were injured,” Fedorov said immediately.
That year, the head of OVA reported that the woman died due to injuries suffered due to the attack of the Russian drone.
12.03 Russian military Sergiy Karpilovich was brought before the Ukrainian court for charges of sexual violence in the civilian village of Zoloty Kolodyaz, in the Donetsk region. About the price from the material Evidence.Info.
Around the turn of the year 2025, Russians decided to occupy the village of Zoloty Kolodyaz. Among the military forces who stormed the population center, the former 51-river Karpilovich of the Sverdlovsk region.
In the Fatherland, there was punishment for theft. Vyaznitsa vіdsidіv has close to 30 rokіv.
11.49 Defense forces hit a warehouse of attack drones near Krimu, alerting the ZSU General Staff. The presence of two ground repeaters for controlling attack UAVs in Crimea and the Kherson region was also confirmed.
11.41 Most Ukrainians do not support the end-of-war scenario, which involves the withdrawal of troops from Donbas-controlled areas and the transfer of these territories to Russia in exchange for security guarantees from the United States and Europe. To compare the results of the study of the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), carried out on 20 days - 3 days.
Thus, 60% of respondents called such a scenario categorically unpleasant. At the same time, 33% of those who eat are ready to praise him, wanting most of them to know that he would have a good mind. Another 7% were not tested positive.
11.25 On Friday in the village of Kobleve in the waters of the Black Sea, the moon broke. Having died, he told the resident of Mykolayivskaya OVA Georgiy Reshetilov. This tragedy could not have happened even if “the plot was fenced off and marked as a precaution against mine security,” meaning vin.
11.08 In the Transcarpathian region, during Operation Chesniy, the authorities of the RTCC and the Joint Venture, which illegally “wrote off” over a thousand people – perhaps an entire regiment, were vikritoly called upon. The DBR informed about this.
11.05 On the territory of the regional TCC and SP in the Zhytomyr region, a dangerous 46-year-old man, sent to the Military Medical Commission, died in a Swedish emergency vehicle. About the 7th sickle, we informed the Zhytomyr regional territorial center for recruitment and social support.
10.39 Two Russian agents were caught near the Mykolayiv region. They acted terribly, but they also conquered similar enemies - they launched missile and drone attacks on Mykolayiv. The SBU reported this.
10.26 Special forces fighters of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Group 13 on the territory of the instantly occupied Crimea burned down the Russian anti-aircraft missile-harmatt complex Pantsir-S1 and the military crane. The cost of a reduced air defense system is approximately 15 million dollars. This is reported by the GUR, who published a video. It is indicated that in order to attack the ground targets of the occupiers during the operation that took place on the head of the sickle in 2026, richly functional Magura marine platforms, which carry FPV drones.
10.19 On Friday, in 12 regions of Ukraine, electricity will be cut off due to Russian shelling and trouble. Ukrenergo reported about this. Emergency-response robots are already starting to work, where they allow a safe mind.
9.51 Last year, under Russian attacks, 21 settlements of the Kharkiv region were affected, two people died, and another 18 people were injured. The head of the regional sovereign administration, Oleg Sinegubov, announced the 7th sickle. It is reported that 53 and 50 people died near Lozova, 11 people were injured. In Balaklia, women aged 20, 77 and 53 years old and men aged 22 and 84 years were found to be injured. Dergachi has a wounded 74-year-old man. Near the village of Shevchenko, I recognized a 49-year-old man early.
9.30 The Russian military launched a combined strike with ceramic aerial bombs and drones on Sumy on the night of the 7th sickle. As a result of the shelling, two people felt wounded. Oleg Grigorov, a resident of the Sumy State University, told about this.
In other words, private residential buildings, non-residential premises, transport and infrastructure facilities are damaged.
Grigorov reported that during the 7th Serpent of the Russian Army, a drone attacked people at the market in the Bilopil community of the Sumy region, as a result of which 10 people were injured. Two of them are visiting an important man.
9.21 UN Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned Russia's massive missile and drone attacks on Kiev and other Ukrainian places, which left dozens of civilians dead and injured, as well as The civil infrastructure has been damaged. Please check with the relevant organization for details.
Guterres was also deeply concerned about the further escalation of the war, extending it to the territory of the Russian Federation. In this context we condemn the recent attacks by Ukrainian drones on a number of Russian regions.
9.16 Anti-aircraft defense forces eliminated 114 of the 147 drones that Russian fighters attacked Ukraine. The incident was recorded at 15 locations. The Command of the Air Defense Forces of the ZSU reported about the 7th sickle.
8.50 At the front, 233 military engagements were recorded along the way, the largest number of Russian troops attacked on Pokrovsky and Kostyantynivsky directly. The ZSU General Staff reports about the 7th sickle.
8.20 Drones attacked the Wildberries warehouse near Yekaterinburz (Sverdlovsk region of the Russian Federation). TG channels inform you about this. The French governor of the Sverdlovsk region declared a regime of insecurity in the region due to the threat of drones. Before you know, you can transfer the connection between your mobile phone and the Internet. As ASTRA writes, it hit the Wildberries logistics complex near Yekaterinburz.
I’ll burn about it in the warehouse, 2 thousand kilometers from the front line, also informing the Ukrainian Telegram channel Exilenova+. According to their data, it appeared in the first block of the Wildberries warehouse. Russ & Wildberries confirmed that as a result of the attack, the company’s logistics facility suffered a fire. The company reported that people from the facility were immediately evacuated. The new supplies that had been caught were promptly separated and redirected to other logistics facilities.
7.53 The military forces of the Russian Federation carried out 997 strikes on 56 settlements in the Zaporizhzhya region. Ten people were injured as a result of hostile attacks in Zaporizhia and Zaporizhzhya region. The head of Zaporizka OVA, Ivan Fedorov, told about this.
7.24 ZSU for the spoils deprived 1,210 Russian occupiers. The enemy's military losses from 02/24/22 to 08/07/26 amounted to approximately 1,455,420 individuals. I told the ZSU General Staff about the 7th sickle.
06.29 NATO member countries will give Ukraine €70 billion in military ownership, which will help with that beginning in 2026. They plan to see the same amount in 2027. I informed the ZSU General Staff about this.
05.31 The head of the Ministry of Health of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, called to discuss the possibility of Russian missiles being deposited over the territory of Ukraine, without considering their possible entry into the Polish airspace. This “requires serious discussion” and it is not wrong to become a “guarantor of party supernity” in relation to Poland’s internal political differences, Sikorski said.
04.29 In occupied Crimea, on the night before Friday, the 7th sickle, they reported an attack by drones and a series of collisions in several areas. In response to the attacks, the occupiers blocked the river with the Kerch Bridge. In the area of Feodosia, a large-scale fire will be recorded, according to the data of the monitoring devices, it will “arrive” using the purchased equipment in the area of the large 13th military town on the Kerch Highway. Near Kerch, Sevastopol and Alushti districts there are reports of vibrations.
03.05 Ukrainian business has begun to remove anonymous listings from the “Vlasnik Shaheds” in order to be able to pay a pittance so that their objects are not attacked by drones. The President's Adviser on the development of technological areas of defense, Sergiy "Flash" Beskrestnov, informed about this. You must not succumb to such manipulations by calling upon your entrepreneurs.
02.13 In Zaporizhzhya, as a result of the attack of a Russian drone on the night before Friday, the 7th sickle, the office will be damaged, after which the wine there will be destroyed. As soon as Ivan Fedorov, the head of the Zaporizkaya OVA, told me, I will burn localized. According to previous data, there were no casualties.
00.20 In the Izmail district of the Odessa region, as a result of the Russian attack on civil infrastructure, on Thursday, 6 sickles, a 16-year-old boy was injured. As soon as the head of Odesskaya OVA Oleg Kiper reported, the patient with shrapnel wounds was taken to the hospital. Doctors will give you any necessary help.
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[NewsFront] 20:53 Air defense assets for the day shot down 75 Ukrainian UAVs over regions of the Russian Federation, as well as over the waters of the Black and Azov Seas. 8:16 PM Ukrainian drone killed a civilian in the Belgorod region
In the village of Zamostye, Graivoron District, an FPV drone attacked a cyclist. The man died instantly as a result of injuries sustained.
19:20 Four civilians from the Kherson region died, another 25 have suffered from attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the beginning of the week.
According to the governor, two children from the village of Tendrovskoye were among the injured. A boy born in 2023 and a girl born in 2020 were hospitalized at the Skadovsk Central Regional Hospital in moderate condition.
Civilians were also injured in attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Aleshkinsky, Golopristansky, Gornostaevsky, Kalanchaksky, Kakhovka, Novaya Kakhovka, Skadovsky, Chaplinsky, and Henichesk districts. All victims received medical assistance.
18:28 As a result of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on Crimea damaged an apartment building in Kerch killed two people and injured another.
17:56 As a result of the strike, Ukraine's largest warehouse of Delta Plus products was completely destroyed, the company emphasized. Supplies of personal protective equipment have been lost, and product sales have been suspended.
17:32 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked a Turkish-flagged dry cargo ship off the coast of the port of Novorossiysk
17:05 Russian Armed Forces destroyed equipment that is critical to Naftogaz's operations
Russian military forces struck seven Ukrnafta facilities, resulting in the shutdown of several enterprises and the loss of significant production volumes. The strike last night was one of the most massive in recent memory.
16:47 In Dnepropetrovsk a warehouse for a logistics company was hit.
A large fire broke out at the landing site, and the surrounding area was covered in thick smoke.
15:52 Applied strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in Odessa
Another vessel was reportedly hit. Furthermore, Russian "Banderol" loitering munitions were detected over the city.
15:10 Hit three more dry cargo ships with Ukrainian Armed Forces cargo
Two ships were struck in the Black Sea, east and southeast of Odesa. Another bulk carrier was struck at its berth in the port of Chornomorsk in the Odesa region.
14:05 Soldiers of the 69th Motorized Rifle Division expanded their control zone around Vilcha in the Khar'kov region which has been completely cleared, and the town itself has been completely cleared. However, enemy groups sometimes even reach the south of Vovchansk, where they are detected and eliminated.
13:29 RF Armed Forces destroyed a mortar and ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Volchansky district
Formally, a significant number of settlements in the northeastern part of the Volchansky district are still under enemy control. However, the advance of our troops south of Volohovka, followed by the liberation of Zakharovka, as well as west of Artelny and the establishment of control over the village of Ustinovka, allowed the formation of a kind of semi-cauldron on this section of the front, in which Ukrainian Armed Forces units were deprived of supplies.
13:07 From August 1 to 7, the Russian Armed Forces inflicted two massive and 12 group strikes with high-precision weapons, as well as strike unmanned aerial vehicles, which resulted in the destruction of military industry enterprises, logistics centers, fuel and energy and transport infrastructure facilities used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, production workshops and storage sites for unmanned aerial vehicles and components for them, temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries.
12:33 Units of the North group of forces exerted control over the village of Aniskino in the Khar'kov region
12:05 Russian Armed Forces released Novodanilovka settlement.
They are also carrying out attacks in the direction of the western part of the village of Malaya Tokmachka.
11:26 Soldiers of the 50th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade "Varyag"destroyedGas stations and fuel tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
11:16 Ukrainian Armed Forces drone inflicted a strike on Belgorod injured three people.
A woman with multiple abrasions on her arm and two men, who were previously diagnosed with acubarotic injuries,
…I can’t find the definition with a quick internet search…
were transported to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2 for examination by an ambulance team.
The detonation caused a fire in the insulation on the façade of the administrative building, which was extinguished by the fire brigade. The glazing of the social facility was also damaged.
10:32 Russian Army liberated Aniskino, Khar'kov region
Assault units of the "North" group of forces, during fierce fighting, drove the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the village of Aniskino in the Kupyansky district and liberated the village.
10:05 Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Wildberries logistics center in Yekaterinburg
The Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attack caused a fire that has since been contained. The company reported that people were evacuated in advance and there were no injuries. Most of the goods were also undamaged.
9:37 Applied strikes on enemy logistics facilities in the Khar'kov and Dnipropetrovsk regions
In Izyum, Khar'kov Oblast, a strike was carried out on a facility belonging to the transport and logistics company Delivery, which was used for the delivery and storage of military cargo, UAVs, and their components.
The Erastovka railway station in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was damaged. A locomotive and railway infrastructure were damaged.
9:03 Hit three enemy dry cargo ships in the Black Sea
On the evening of August 6 and the morning of August 7, Russian forces continued to strike naval vessels deployed in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Three dry cargo ships carrying military cargo were hit by drones in the Black Sea.
8:24 During the past night, in the period from 20:00 Moscow time on August 6 to 8:00 Moscow time on August 7, air defense forces on duty intercepted and destroyed 203 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tula regions, Krasnodar Krai, Perm Krai, the Republic of Crimea, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Republic of Bashkortostan and the waters of the Black Sea.
8:07 During the evening of August 6 and the morning of August 7, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued striking at sea vessels deployed in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Three dry cargo ships carrying military cargo were hit in the Black Sea as a result of strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles.
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[REGNUM] The apartment is being renovated. The sound of a drill amuses two small children, a boy and a girl; they try to shout it down with cheerful squeals, glaring defiantly at their grandmother. She scolds them, but the grandchildren sense that she's not being serious. And it's true: a drill, of course, is a nuisance, but everything is relative. And these children have something to compare it to.
Vasya and Vasilisa spent a whole year in Rodinsky's basement; they can distinguish the sound of a flying "Baba Yaga" from all other drones. Their mother and father, who gave them these cheerful, similar-sounding names, were shot by Ukrainian soldiers last November.
Their paternal grandmother, Irina Gennadyevna, remained with them. Vasilisa's naturally light-brown curls—the ringlets framing her forehead—made her look like a little angel from a picture, as she was first shown on Russian news. The enormous, greasy bulletproof vest she was encased in during the evacuation seemed to emphasize the unreality of what was happening.
Now both Vasya and Vasilisa have shaved their heads, but a light fuzz has already appeared on their heads. In the basement where the children spent six months, they were bitten by earthworms and infested with lice. Although occasionally their grandmother would carry them up the stairs to the sun, picking bugs out of their hair, and wiping their hands and feet with water, only these drastic measures, once they were in the hospital, were able to help.
Vasya is only three years old, so he doesn’t worry about his hair, but Vasilisa is already five, so she asks in a businesslike tone: “So, will the curls come back by school?”
PEACEFUL LIFE
Vasya and Vasilisa's parents met in 2020 thanks to their mother's musical ear. Dasha overheard Ivan quietly whispering to his cousin that he liked her but didn't know how to approach her. It was his brother who insisted they approach her. Six years later, it would be he who would carry their little curly-haired daughter out of the ruined city.
Ivan was 28 and worked as a welder, and Dasha was 26, a piano teacher at the Grozny Music School. They never got to marry: marriage was only possible through the military registration and enlistment office, and Ivan was due for mobilization.
"We had everything done through the military registration and enlistment office. The registration, the registration, and the funeral. That's why many people lived like that, but my son had a serious relationship with Dasha," recalls Irina Gennadyevna.
When the Second World War began and the echoes of fighting in the Avdiivka industrial zone were already felt in the city, Irina Gennadyevna suggested that the children consider leaving for Ukraine, but Dasha categorically refused: she was born, raised, and educated in Donetsk, so she always knew she wanted to return home. But she didn't have much choice: the Ukrainian Armed Forces began forcibly evacuating families with children from the city at the end of 2024. Four armed militants arrived for the children and Darya and took them to Dobropillia.
But ten days later, when all the registrations for their stay in the city had been completed, Dasha packed up the children and returned. The trip hadn't been a burden for the children; they were traveling with other children. Vasilisa saw her peers for the first time, playing and laughing with them. The children were picked up a second time several months later, and this time, remembering their previous experience, they were sent much further—to Dnipro. But even from there, Dasha managed to devise a way to return. She asked a close friend to pick them up by car. They put the children in bags, covered them with rags in the trunk, and thus managed to bypass all the checkpoints.
They were simply lucky: the Ukrainian Armed Forces peered into the cabin, shining flashlights, but didn't ask them to take out their belongings, and the children, understanding that they had to sit quietly, didn't act up once during the entire journey. The family was reunited with their grandmother and father. Vasya and Vasilisa had a remote kindergarten. It sounds strange, but in reality, even this format was an opportunity for the children to communicate, at least through a computer screen.
Anxiety was growing in the city: the VS troops felt the frontline advancing inexorably toward them, and they took out their despair on civilians. For example, they would shamelessly tell an elderly saleswoman at a local store, "Oh, what a lovely town you have! So green! Too bad it'll have to be destroyed anyway."
DEATH OF PARENTS: "GRANDMA, I WANT TO GO TO MOM AND DAD"
After her mother's death, Irina Gennadyevna moved in with her children to help with the grandchildren. According to Irina Gennadyevna, they managed to give her mother a proper burial. However, even at the cemetery, an unpleasant incident occurred: employees of the Central Conservatory (TCC), known locally as "policemen," came after a neighbor who was digging a grave. They had been trying to catch him for a long time, and then this was their lucky break. In the fall of 2025, the family moved into the basement.
There was no longer any talk of walks: Irina Gennadyevna would simply lift the basement lid, place the children on the top step, and point to the clear autumn sky: "Look, children—the sun is up there! Look how bright it is! Breathe, little ones, in the fresh air !"
The city had been without power for two years, but people found a solution: they bought generators and battery-powered light bulbs. Water had been cut off back in 2014, but locals didn't give up: they installed wells in their yards. People were reluctant to leave their green city, and their hopes grew stronger with the liberation of Krasnoarmeysk and Dimitrov, which were just a stone's throw away.
But the opposite happened: after retreating from Krasnoarmeysk, the militants took up a point-blank defense in houses. Many civilians left their homes to run errands, only to return to find uninvited guests. At best, they were allowed to pack their things and leave immediately.
At the end of November 2025, Ukrainian Armed Forces militants came to them too. They settled in the neighboring yard, where the family had a well and a generator. There, Ivan also fed the neighbor's dog, which had been left behind after the owners left.
Ivan was the first to sense trouble was brewing, sharing his doubts with his mother: "This time, we've got some unusual people here, not just mobikes: they're dressed too well and speak strangely. They're wearing anti-drone cloaks and helmets. They even have walkie-talkies."
On November 22, 2025, a fire started in the courtyard of a house after a drone attack. Dasha became concerned that the fire might spread to the house and suggested trying to turn on the generator to start the well. Ivan agreed to try, saying he'd spoken with the military who had arrived at the house next door, and they seemed reasonable.
"And they went there, into the neighboring yard. I heard a burst of machine gun fire almost immediately; our basement lid was open. I knew something bad had happened. They'd been gone too long. And there was no sound of water coming out."
— How did you understand that the burst of machine gun fire wasn't shooting at drones, but rather an execution?
"I saw... I looked out the pantry window: first I noticed flashlights lying on the ground, and then the outlines of bodies. It was November, after all, already dusk. And the fire was still growing, but I couldn't do anything, I was paralyzed. And then a neighbor came running, shouting, 'You're burning! Grab your documents and run!'"
A neighbor picked up Vasya and carried him out of the burning house, through the blazing, collapsing walls. Irina was afraid to walk with her granddaughter through the flames: she squeezed the girl out through the pantry window, where a moment ago she had been looking at her dead son's body. The neighbor was already waiting on the other side; he grabbed Vasilisa, helped Irina out, and only then suddenly realized: "Where's Vanya? And Dasha?"
A neighbor took it upon himself to bury Dasha and Ivan's bodies. True, they couldn't actually bury them: drones were flying overhead, so he covered his dead friends in the shed with pieces of iron and firewood to keep the dogs from stealing the bodies. They also placed notes with their names in their pockets so the bodies could be identified and buried later. Vasya didn't fully comprehend what had happened, and Vasilisa immediately began crying and asking where her parents were and why they were leaving without them.
Irina remained silent at the time, and the neighbor decided to "calm her down": "They went to the store, all your things burned. Now they'll bring new ones."
"And then my nephew chided me: ' Why are you giving her hope? She'll be expecting them to come with their things.' Since she's almost five years old, she's grown up, I explained honestly: 'Vasilisa, I want to tell you something. Your mom and dad live in heaven. On a cloud. They love you, but they won't be with us anymore.' Sometimes she gets up in the morning, pensive, and says: 'Mom and Dad came to me in a dream. They apologize for not living with us.'"
Back in Donetsk, Vasilisa seriously scared her grandmother by saying, "I want to go to Mom and Dad." Irina Gennadyevna explained, "Honey, they haven't figured out a way there yet." The girl replied, "When I grow up, I'll definitely figure it out."
IN MY NEPHEW'S BASEMENT
In the morning, a neighbor helped Irina and her grandchildren get to her brother and nephew's house. The same one who introduced Dasha and Ivan:
"I knocked on the window. My nephew came out, still sleepy. 'What's wrong?' I said, 'Well, it looks like we burned to death. And Vanya and Dasha were killed.'"
Irina pauses as Vasilisa runs past. It seems she's engrossed in her game and not listening, but that's not the case. She easily gets into the conversation:
— Do you see the hallway in our apartment? This is the basement we had when we moved in with my uncle!
At first, a family of nine huddled in this small space: Irina and her grandchildren, her brother with his wife and youngest son, her nephew with his wife and 17-year-old daughter. The nephew arranged the basement so that the women and girls could lie down, while the men slept sitting up, partly due to lack of space and partly to be on guard at any moment.
Irina Gennadyevna even managed to find a small chair for her elderly brother in one of the neighboring houses—one that fit neatly into the corner of the cellar. Now her nephew took over the daily foraging trips, bringing pickles and jam.
There was little time for such activities—about 30 minutes at dusk, when no one was looking, and the drones were being replaced to recharge. Daughter Alisa kept asking her dad to take her with him: she was terrified that one day he might not return. Just like Vasya and Vasilisa's dad. The children in the basement became silent.
"I'd ask them something, and they'd be silent. I'd say to Vasilisa, 'Are we going to talk today?' and she'd shake her head," Irina Gennadyevna recalls, watching the children hop around the room. She doesn't want to stop the childhood seething within them, yearning to be unleashed, even though the neighbors have already come to complain about the noise:
"If only they understood... So, what was I saying? And Vasya started copying Vasilisa, too, and withdrew into himself. But we tried to teach him useful things in the basement, too: we drew, read, and counted with Vasilisa, and we just got Vasya potty trained there, since there were no diapers."
EASTER FIRE
Before Easter, rumors began circulating among the remaining residents of Rodinskoye that there would be a truce in honor of the Orthodox holiday, and that this would be a chance for them to leave the city and head towards Krasnoarmeysk.
Irina's brother and his family decided to go to the part of the city where evacuations to Russia were rumored to be taking place. Irina, her children, and her nephew decided against it: besides not being sure that the Russian army was evacuating people from there, the route to the mine itself was extremely dangerous: the Ukrainian Armed Forces were deploying Lepestok and Magnitka missiles from drones that were sensitive to any movement.
More and more often, neighbors grew tired of the tense, exhausting wait and abandoned their homes, heading into the unknown toward Russian positions. This uncertainty at least offered hope. The fate of many was tragic, but Irina Gennadyevna's brother and his family were lucky enough to reach Donetsk; now all they could do was wait for their loved ones.
A ceasefire was indeed declared for Easter, but the Ukrainian side did not cease fire. And on Easter night, a Ukrainian drone flew into the house. Russian military had already warned Irina Gennadyevna that UAVs react to heat and can fly through windows if they detect a heat signature. Especially since there were no windows left in the house:
"We sat there, not knowing whether we'd survive. All we could hear was the drone buzzing around the house, searching. We prayed to God for it to fly away and leave us alone. But it dropped a lighter, and a fire started. We started pouring water on the basement lid to keep from suffocating."
— What did you water it with?
"Well, with what was in the cellar: pickles and, excuse the expression, urine. We took turns peeing in a bottle and pouring it on the cellar lid to keep the smoke out. But the carbon monoxide got to us anyway—the children started losing consciousness. Vasya was still holding on, but Vasilisa passed out. We started slapping her cheeks, and she came to. My nephew, with the last of his strength, broke the lid off, and we crawled out through the burning remains of the house. The children gulped in some fresh air—we woke them up, they were already turning green."
Not far from their house, the nephew spotted another basement—the building there had also been destroyed, but the cellar had survived. They moved there, and now Vasilisa began asking a new question: "Grandma, are we going to die?"
EVACUATION: SOLDIERS CARRIED CHILDREN IN THEIR ARMS
Russian troops learned about the family with two small children just as they were approaching Rodinskoye, on New Year's Eve: a local grandfather in the village just outside the town asked the soldiers to "give Irinka's grandchildren a jar of honey from his apiary. There won't be any more bees, but let the children have some fun."
At first, the commanders didn't believe that children could remain among the ruins, but later, it became a tradition for the stormtroopers, when setting out on a combat mission toward the city, to pack a surprise for the children in their duffel bags: candy, cookies, juice. The decision to evacuate the family was difficult: the only way to get six people out of the city was to walk to Dimitrov, where they could be picked up by a car. But Dimitrov was a 10-kilometer walk.
"We walked through the plantings so we wouldn't be seen too much. But this time the Lord smiled, truly: only a few times did the trees buzz above us, and we hid behind the leaves, but otherwise we made it safely. The children were carried in their arms: Vasya by the soldiers, and Vasilisa by my nephew."
Ivan's brother kept his promise to his brother. When things were getting dangerous in Rodinskoye, he promised his brother that he would deliver his children to safety at any cost. And he kept his promise.
Irina Gennadyevna had the hardest time of it all. She lagged far behind the group, and had to tackle some dangerous "postcards" alone: her legs suddenly gave out. She'd never complained about her health, but suddenly she weakened. Back in Donetsk, doctors explained that the problem was due to prolonged inactivity and mental stress.
On the way, the children were quiet—they had already become accustomed to this fundamental norm of behavior in their world: to remain silent and not disturb adults. But in the Donetsk hospital, where they were brought from Dimitrov, Vasilisa began to change before our eyes.
First, Tatyana, who delivered food to the patients, won her trust: Vasilisa spoke to her first, and Tatyana turned out to be a native of Makeyevka, where the family had been given an apartment. Now the children wait for the kind woman for tea.
— What surprised the children most in Donetsk?
"They brought us to the Donetsk hospital when it was already dark, the light was still on in the ward. And Vasya was so surprised when he realized we were getting ready for bed. If it was light, they had to do something, how could they just sleep? What else? They'd never seen such a big store, of course; they were still walking around the Moloko supermarket with their mouths open.
Vasilisa is still terrified by the roar of motorcycles that occasionally whizz past her windows. She finds it hard to understand why grown-ups need entertainment whose sounds so strongly remind them of something scary. But, most importantly, the children have begun to regain their normal childhood dreams. For example, Vasilisa wants to get a cat. She promises her grandmother to take care of it and clean its litter box:
— Have you had cats before?
"We had a cat. We wanted to take him home with us, but he couldn't handle all the stress—he died. It's possible he even had a stroke. The vet explained to me that cats are sensitive to these things just like people. But of course, we told the kids the cat simply wandered off into the woods."
- So, maybe it really is worth getting a cat?
"The last thing we need is cats," Irina Gennadyevna rubs her tired eyes under her glasses, and her wrinkles, as if they'd just appeared after a difficult story, are smoothed out with a smile. "Let them go to kindergarten for now. Maybe that'll be enough of an experience. And then we'll see, maybe we'll get some. I love cats myself."
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