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[Korrespondent] 22.36 The United States is preparing to allow the Turkish region to transfer to Ukraine 70 M39 ATACMS ballistic missiles, 12 M270 MLRS rocket systems and tens of thousands of cluster munitions. This is stated in the documents of the US Government Department, published in the official protocol of the Congress of the 6th sickle. Since, within the established 15-day period, legislators did not praise the draft resolution on the defense, they allowed for the transfer of official power automatically.
21.45 In Sumy region, Russians attacked the locomotive of a passenger train. In parallel with the extinguishment, the fire officers of the community carried out the evacuation of the passengers of the train in full force with local authority. No people were harmed.
21.20 Russian troops hit Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk region, apparently two were wounded. First, two people were wounded - a 50-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman.
20.55 The Russians gathered three stakes near Moscow to protect the PPO. In order to create such a strong protection field, it was necessary to consolidate all software systems from all ends of the great territory: for Moscow and less for St. Petersburg. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about this on air at the United News telethon. The President of Ukraine said: after the stinks began to hit our logistics, we found another logistics operation and approved it.
17.05 President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine actually did not lose any unmaintained power plants as a result of Russian attacks.
16.40 Kherson OVA chief Oleksandr Prokudin on Saturday, informing about those that the Russian military was withdrawing orders in order to carry out the so-called “free fall” on vehicles from the standstill of UAVs. Russians are especially fond of cars that, behind external signs, can be identified as vehicles of the Defense Forces.
15.50 Russian troops near Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, attacked the bus, sinking in water.
Due to the attack, a regular bus burned down: having died in the water, its 48-year-old colleague was injured and was reported to the Dnpropetrovsk Police Department.
14.55 For the first time during the entire hour of the invasion of Ukraine, half of the citizens of the Russian Federation did not call the war “successful”. This was previously reported by The Mosow Times in its tribute to the Levada Center.
14.14 The United States is looking to deliver missiles to Ukraine for Patriot. About this, President Volodymyr Zelensky said about the hour of the meeting with representatives of the ZMI near Belgrade.
13.27 Forces of unmanned SPA systems with a length of 1-8 sickles hit another 12 vessels of the Russian dark fleet in the Black and Azov Seas. They told us about this on Saturday.
12.55 The court recognized in absentia the previous release of liberty to 11 Russian military forces for the shooting of six civilians near Dobropark and in Motyzhyn near the Kiev region in 2022. The Office of the Prosecutor General was informed about this.
11.34 On Saturday, the Ukrainian Defense Forces attacked the low importance of Russian facilities, including two oil refineries. I informed the ZSU General Staff about this.
10.56 More pressure is needed to disturb Putin’s Russia and force a war against Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote about this on Telegram, reacting to the Russian attack on Saturday night.
10.12 Russian aggressors attacked the locomotive of the Sumi-Kiev train, there were no casualties. Ukrzaliznytsia told about this. The train's locomotive crew evacuated the passengers to a safe stop, and there were no casualties.
09.45 As a result of a night attack by Russian aggressors near Kiev, one person died and many more were injured. In the Golosiivsky district, the rioters liquidated the fires that had been caused by the blows of the Russians.
09.25 On Saturday, Russian aggressors launched six Iskander-M ballistic missiles and S-400 anti-aircraft missiles, as well as 151 drones of various types, across Ukraine. The PPO units covered most of the enemy's targets and alerted the Ukrainian forces to the ZSU.
09.00 Odessa region is ranked first in Ukraine for the number of possible illegal activities on the part of the staff of territorial centers for staffing and social support (TCC and SP). Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets informed us about this in advance.
08.41 During the last battle, 223 combat engagements were recorded on 11 fronts. About this, having informed the General Staff of the ZSU at the rank station at 8:00 on Saturday. The most active enemy is acting directly on Pokrovsky. There, the ZSU squad repelled attacks in the areas of 14 settlements.
07.39 During the previous period, the occupation army of Russia lost 1,190 military servicemen killed and wounded at the front in Ukraine. About this, having informed the ZSU General Staff in an operational alert on Saturday.
The Ukrainian military produced over 2,100 units of Russian equipment, including one ship or boat, 58 aircraft, one RSZV and six PPO units.
04.45 Near the Russian Saratov region on the night before Saturday, 8th sickle, a series of booms appeared. Monitoring channels inform about the fire rate at the local oil refinery. Russian channels indicate that UAVs were flying there. According to the authorities, at night in the region there was a voice of both unmanned and missile safety. Misteva, the head of the Russian Federation, did not comment on the results of the attack at the time of publication.
There is also a notification from monitoring units about the attack on the Ilsky oil refinery plant in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation.
04.17 Ukraine is trying to negotiate with Elon Musk about the Starlink satellite for precise targeting of Russian ballistic missile launchers, but so far without success. As The Atlantic writes, Musk opposes using Starlink for such purposes, as he fears it could lead to further escalation of the war.
03.42 Kiev suddenly had a series of vibrations overnight on Saturday, 8th sickle. As Volodymyr Klitschko informed the measures of Kiev, according to the latest information, in the Golosiivsky district there was a fire in the territory of non-living oblivion. In the Obolonsky district, there was information about the fire of fire tanks. Emergency services should be directed to the locality.
02.44 Near the Brovary district of the Kiev region, as a result of the Russian attack on Saturday, the 8th sickle, three people died, among them a child. Three more people were injured, baby. According to the head of the Kiev OVA Timur Tkachenko, the remains of the attack were recorded in three locations. Through the fall of subtleties, private booths, government disputes and cars were damaged. There was also a fire in the non-living area.
01.15 Near Kiev and the Dnieper on the night before Saturday, the 8th of September, under the hour of high alarm, the moons swelled. Local media and Telegram channels inform you about this. Before this, the ZSU forces were alerted to the threat of stagnation of Russian attack drones.
00.49 Russian occupiers loom near Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region. The monitoring project DeepState reports about this evening on Friday, the 7th of September.
00.18 Russian ruler Volodymyr Putin, after the renewal of regional trips, is important to select territories of the Russian Federation for visits, which are rarely susceptible to attacks by Ukrainian drones. According to the Agency, from the beginning of 2026 Putin is important to Siberia and other regions. Moscow, St. Petersburg and Valdai will lose their place as Putin continues to advance. His main residence has been renovated there. Until this series of trips, Putin practically did not leave the regions of Russia from falling leaves until 2025.
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[NewsFront] 20:43 During the day from 8:00 Moscow time to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 360 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Ryazan, Oryol, Smolensk, Tver, Tula regions, the Moscow region, the Republic of Crimea, Krasnodar Krai and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas. 20:07 Russian Army approached Kramatorsk at 7.7 km, and to Slavyansk - at 12 km
19:42 In Kyiv, warehouses near the Far Eastern Railway Plant were lit up.
This is presumably the result of recent work by Geraniums.
18:58 In Kakhovka due to an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces where a wholesale warehouse was set afire within an area of approximately 800 square meters
Ukrainian forces have been intensifying their attacks on the Kakhovka District in recent days. Residential buildings, commercial establishments, vehicles, and energy infrastructure have come under fire.
In Kakhovka, a drone attack set fire to retail pavilions at a wholesale warehouse, destroying approximately 800 square meters of space. Private homes in Sofiyivka and Malokakhovka also burned as a result of Ukrainian Armed Forces strikes. Dry vegetation caught fire in several villages.
18:07 Civilian died as a result of an explosion of ammunition in Vasylivka in the Kherson region
That night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces planted a remote-controlled mine in the village. A man discovered a suspicious object and attempted to remove it, causing an explosion. The victim was taken to the hospital, but could not be saved.
17:52 Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked an ambulance in Novaya Mayachka: a patient died, two more people were injured
Ukrainian troops attacked an ambulance en route to a man suffering from a heart attack. The attack injured the paramedic and the driver. The patient died without receiving timely medical attention.
17:34 Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue attacks on port infrastructure and sea vessels of Ukraine deployed in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
During the day, the following were hit by high-precision air-launched weapons and attack drones:
- in the port of Odessa – military warehouses with communications equipment and electronic warfare equipment;
- in the port of Nikolaev - a dry cargo ship with military equipment, as well as a warehouse with weapons and military property;
- in the Black Sea – a dry cargo vessel that was delivering military equipment for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
16:44 Attack of seven drones on Moscow were shot down by the Ministry of Defense's air defense forces. Emergency services specialists are working at the site of the fallen debris.
16:17 In Ukraine, due to Russian strikes, there is almost no entire thermal power plants left.
15:23 Russian military, aviation, air defense and mobile fire groups in the morning hit two Ukrainian air strikes on Sevastopol. Thirty-five UAVs were shot down, primarily over the sea and offshore.
14:37 FPV interceptors of the Center arranged a showdown with enemy UAVs in the sky – video.
14:04 Investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate more crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces against civilians in several regions of the Russian Federation
According to reports from executive authorities, a civilian was killed and several others were injured in attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on populated areas in the Belgorod region.
In the Republic of Crimea, two people were killed and another was injured as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack on an apartment building in Kerch.
In the Kherson region, civilians were killed and injured as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Donetsk People's Republic, eleven civilians, including two children, were injured as a result of attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces attack drones.
Five people were injured in the Krasnodar region due to falling UAV debris.
In the Lipetsk region, two people were injured as a result of Kyiv's aggression.
13:21 Summary of the Ministry of Defense on the progress of the Special Military Operation as of 08/08/2028
Units of the North military group, as a result of active offensive operations, established control over the village of Ivanovka in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces defeated the personnel and equipment of four mechanized brigades, a motorized infantry brigade, two assault regiments, and a territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Vasylivka, Metallivka, Dergachi, Tsupovka, and Kupino in Khar'kov Oblast. In Sumy Oblast, the Ukrainian Armed Forces defeated formations of a mechanized brigade and two territorial defense brigades near the settlements of Kucherovka, Grunovka, and Pisarevka in Sumy Oblast.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 240 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, 10 cars, a Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 multiple launch rocket system launcher, and two electronic warfare stations.
Units of the "West" force grouping improved their tactical position. They defeated the personnel and equipment of four mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade, an assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and a territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Podliman, Nechvolodovka, and Beloe in the Khar'kov region, and Mayaki, Bogorodichnoye, Svyatogorsk, Sidorovo, and Stary Karavan in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 210 troops, an armored combat vehicle, and 21 vehicles. Four field artillery pieces were destroyed, two of which were Western-made, as well as a US-made AN/TPQ-53 counter-battery radar.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of four mechanized brigades, a motorized infantry brigade, an airmobile brigade, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and a territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Semenovka, Novoselovka, Kurtovka, Druzhkovka, Belokuzminovka, and Nikolaypolye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 210 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, 24 cars and an artillery piece.
Units of the Center Group of Forces improved their position along the forward edge. They defeated the personnel and equipment of a mechanized brigade, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and four National Guard brigades near the settlements of Petrovka, Gruzskoe, Dobropillya, Novogrishino, Svyatogorovka, Maryivka, and Matyashevo in the Donetsk People's Republic and Raipole in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Ukrainian armed forces suffered losses of over 335 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, and 10 vehicles. Two artillery pieces and an electronic warfare station were destroyed.
Units of the "East" force group advanced deep into the enemy's defenses. They defeated the personnel and equipment of an assault brigade, three airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a naval infantry brigade near the settlements of Kolomiytsy and Ulyanivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and Mirovka, Novoye Pole, Novosoloshino, Dolinka, Barvinovka, and Nikolskoye in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
The enemy lost more than 350 servicemen, four armored combat vehicles and nine cars.
Units of the Dnepr group and troops defeated formations of the mechanized and mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the National Guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kamyshevakha, Orekhov and Preobrazhenka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, 17 vehicles, an artillery piece and two electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
12:59 During aerial surveillance, our drone operators detected an enemy heavy drone of the Baba Yaga type. Operators of the Northern Group's attack drones engaged the target and destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces combat group.
12:18 Units of the North group of forces installed control over the settlement of Ivanovka in the Khar'kov region.
11:40 Military personnel in Sevastopol fended off an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, where air defense and mobile fire groups are operating.
Two UAVs were shot down in the Northern area over the sea.
11:06 Geranium-4 Seeker hit a dry cargo ship involved in the transportation of weapons and military equipment used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:20 The Armed Forces of Ukraine were able to shoot down a single missile fired at Ukraine tonight
9:45 Mobile fire teams cover the Kherson region from air threats around the clock, video.
9:22 During the morning of August 8, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 83 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of the Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Tula regions, the Moscow region, the Republic of Crimea and over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
9:00 AM Ukrainian Armed Forces continue attacks on civilian infrastructure on the left bank of the Kherson region
Yesterday afternoon, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 13 shells from barrel artillery at populated areas of the Kherson region of the Russian Federation:
Throughout the night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued their artillery bombardment of the Kherson region, firing a total of 13 shells from cannon artillery. The following towns were shelled: Kakhovka, Tavriysk, Nova Kakhovka, and Dniproyany.
8:50 Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a group strike with ground-based precision weapons on a military industrial plant and a fuel and lubricants warehouse in the city of Kyiv.
Affected in the city of Kyiv:
- the Kyiv-111 industrial enterprise (Fire Point LLC), which produces components and warheads for the FP-5 Flamingo ground-launched cruise missile. The facility also stores components for the manufacture of solid-fuel boosters;
- Kyiv-3 fuel and lubricants depot (Grandterminal LLC), which supplies petroleum products to the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the Novohrad-Volynskyi linear production and dispatch station. Fuel tankers heading east to supply Ukrainian troop groups are refueled at the facility daily.
- In addition, two dry cargo ships delivering weapons and military equipment to Ukrainian ports were hit by attack drones while crossing the sea south and east of Odessa.
8:21 During the past night, air defense forces on duty intercepted and destroyed 397 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Tambov, Tula regions, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Crimea and the waters of the Sea of Azov.
6:01 Calculation of the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS of the Vostok group destroyed a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region.
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[Regnum] Over the past 24 hours, Russian air defense systems destroyed a Vampire MLRS rocket and 828 Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAVs) drones in the special operation zone. This was reported on August 8 by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
"Air defense systems shot down four guided aerial bombs, a US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, a Czech-made Vampire multiple launch rocket system, eight Flamingo long-range cruise missiles, and 828 drones," the Defense Ministry clarified.
Since the beginning of the Second Military Operation, Russian forces have destroyed 30,489 enemy tanks and armored vehicles, 36,087 artillery pieces and mortars, 1,769 multiple launch rocket systems, 68,698 special vehicles, anti-aircraft missile systems, and over 200,000 Ukrainian drones. Over the past week alone, over 6,500 drones were shot down.
On August 6, in one day, Russian air defense assets destroyed 1,155 Ukrainian UAVs, 20 guided aerial bombs, and one HIMARS rocket in the SVO zone. On August 5, air defense forces shot down 10 aerial bombs, two HIMARS rockets, and 1,083 Ukrainian UAVs.
On August 4, Russian air defense assets destroyed 16 guided aerial bombs and 753 Ukrainian UAVs in one day. On August 3, the Russian Armed Forces shot down seven aerial bombs, five American-made HIMARS rockets, and 651 Ukrainian UAVs in the SVO zone.
[BBC] Inna Lytvynenko always puts on her bright orange body armour when she's out on an emergency call.
Last July, the paramedic was sent out in Kherson to treat a woman injured in a Russian drone attack, when an FPV drone smashed into her ambulance.
Seconds later, she heard a buzzing sound in the sky. Another drone was flying straight towards her, fast.
"I panicked. I grabbed my trauma bag and started running," she recalls. "I shouted and screamed. I knew that if I stopped, I would die."
After chasing her for about 10 minutes, the drone flew away. Lytvynenko was quickly picked up by police.
But what she called the "safari hunting" continued. Drones hit two more vehicles that arrived to take the injured woman to hospital. Hours later, a third police car finally managed to get her out.
After another "safari" attack earlier this week, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky called to put greater pressure on Russia in order to stop deliberate "hunting attacks" on civilians.
Hospitals and ambulances in Ukraine are increasingly coming under Russian drone and missile attack, even though, according to the international rules of war known as the Geneva Conventions, they must be protected by all parties to the conflict.
"This is a new normality, which should not be the normality," says Dr Jarno Habicht, the World Health Organization's (WHO) representative in Ukraine.
The WHO has registered 3,118 attacks on healthcare since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022. "That's two cases per day," Habicht says.
Since 2023 the number of attacks on healthcare has steadily grown. In 2024 it went up by 30%. Last year there was another 20% increase. This trend is expected to continue this year.
A recent Doctors Without Borders (MSF) report says that Russia systematically and often deliberately targets Ukrainian medical facilities. The frequency of attacks on healthcare suggests that they are "a sustained feature of the war rather than an episodic consequence of large scale offensives," the report said.
Last month Russian missiles hit a hospital in Kherson, badly damaging the building and killing one doctor.
Hospital director Olena Tymoshenko believes it was a targeted attack. "It wasn't just one missile, there were three missiles that hit the hospital within a few minutes from each other. It cannot be an accident," she told the BBC.
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