Text live broadcast – short and concise about the most important in the Ukrainian war on August 2. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion for more than a year.
14.26. At least 81 Russian oligarchs, included in the list of the 200 richest Russians created by the magazine “Forbes”, have openly participated in providing supplies to the Russian army, according to a study conducted by the publication “Projekt”.
“Projekt” data show that 80 of these oligarchs are currently subject to Western sanctions. However, only 14 of them are on the sanctions lists of all Ukraine’s allied countries, while 34 persons are subject to the sanctions applied only by Ukraine.
13.38 On Wednesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the start of naval maneuvers in the Baltic Sea.
12.43. Ukrainian troops have knocked out the enemy from positions south of Andrijivka in the Bakhmut district, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army announced on Wednesday. “In the direction of Bahmut, our troops continue to carry out offensive operations south of Bahmut,” the statement said.
11.32. Citing a source, the news agency “Reuters” reports that the Russian drone strike in Izmail, near the Danube, caused serious damage.
The media previously reported that damage was done to the marine station and Danube shipping in Izmail.
10.32. On the night of Wednesday, Russia attacked Ukraine with “Shahed” drones, and 23 of them managed to shoot down Ukrainian soldiers, the Ukrainian Air Force said. “‘Shahedis were fired from three directions – Kursk, Primorskoakhtarsk (Russia), Chaud (Crimea).”
“Most shaheds were destroyed in Kyiv and Odesa regions,” the statement said.
10.21. A Russian nuclear attack on Ukraine will be seen as an attack on NATO, influential US Senator Lindsey Graham has warned.
The senator’s warning came after former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia would have to use nuclear weapons if Ukrainian troops threatened Russian territory.
09.56. The losses of Russian troops in Ukraine reached 247,230 soldiers by Wednesday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army. According to the data of the general staff, 540 invaders were destroyed during the day.
Since the beginning of the repeated invasion on February 24 of last year, Russia has lost 4,217 tanks, 8,213 armored personnel carriers, 4,866 cannons, 700 multi-charge rocket systems, 463 anti-aircraft artillery systems, 315 airplanes, 311 helicopters, 4,042 drones, 1,347 cruise missiles, 734 9 cars and tankers, 18 ships and speedboats, as well as 718 units of specialized equipment.
09.12. Attempts to set fire to the military commissariats in Nakhodka, Sestroretsk, Stavropol, Maykop and Ishimbay took place again on Tuesday, the “Baza” news channel of “Telegram” reports.
An 18-year-old saleswoman of the “Children’s World” store was detained in the city of Ishimbay in Bashkortostan. She poured combustible mixture on the door of the military commissariat, set it on fire and tried to hide. Similar attempts have taken place in Maikop and Sestrorecka. There, too, women tried to set fire to the military commissariats.
08.13. In the course of the Russian aggression, the number of Ukrainians who have lost one or more limbs has reached 20,000 to 50,000, and these numbers can be compared to the scale of the First World War, reports the American newspaper “Wall Street Journal”.
07.10. The airline “Turkmenistan” has stopped flights from Ashgabat to Moscow and back as of August 1, the company said.
The airline explains the decision with “the situation in the air in the Moscow airspace, as well as taking into account the risk assessment for the sake of guaranteeing the safety of flights,” the Turkmen company said in a statement.
06.40. When Russian troops attacked Ukraine’s Danube ports with drones on Wednesday night, fires broke out and an elevator was damaged, Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odesa region administration, said.
“According to the situation at 5:30 a.m., there is no news about the victims,” the head of the district announced on the Telegram platform.
05.40. Ukraine’s air defense shot down more than 10 Russian Shahed attack drones in Kyiv on Wednesday night, and as a result, all the drones that were launched against the Ukrainian capital were shot down, said Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv City War Administration.
01.51. The Polish ambassador was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on Tuesday in connection with the statements of an official of the Polish president’s office, accusing Kyiv of ingratitude.
The head of the foreign policy office of the Polish President’s Chancellery, Marcins Pshidach, criticized Ukraine on Monday for its negative reaction to Poland’s call to the European Union (EU) to extend the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain into Poland and four other countries of the bloc.
00.10. The 14th column of Wagnerians has already arrived in Belarus, reports pravda.com.ua.
00.05. An explosion occurred in Moscow at a factory where equipment for the Russian army is manufactured and repaired. A fire broke out in the factory, UNIAN reports.
2023-08-02 11:27:54
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