Live text broadcast – short and concise about the most important things in the Ukrainian war on August 14. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion for more than a year.
18:45 On Monday, the USA announced a new military aid package for Ukraine in the amount of 200 million dollars.
The Pentagon has informed that Ukraine will receive Patriot anti-aircraft missile system and HIMARS rocket multi-charge artillery equipment ammunition, 155 millimeter artillery shells, as well as 122 millimeter tank cannon shells, TOW anti-tank missiles and Javelin portable anti-tank weapons.
The United States will also supply Ukraine with 37 tactical vehicles for transporting equipment, 58 trailers for transporting watercraft, more than 12 million cartridges for small arms, demining equipment, ammunition for destroying obstacles, as well as various spare parts for repairing military equipment.
18:00. After the activation of the Russian troops in the direction of Kupyansk and Liman, the Ukrainian troops were able to prevent the advance of the enemy and significantly reduced its attack potential, reports Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar.
16:46. On August 14, Russian invaders shelled the front-line village of Bugaevka in the Kharkiv region, injuring two people, according to pravda.com.ua.
16:11. The Polish government announced on Monday that it wants to ask voters whether they support the demolition of the fence built on the border with Belarus. This will be the fourth question that the Poles will have to answer in the referendum, which is planned to be held simultaneously with the upcoming parliamentary elections on October 15.
15:27. The Ukrainian army continues to advance on the flanks of Russian-occupied Bakhmut, Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyara announced on Monday. During the past week, an area of three square kilometers in the vicinity of Bahmut was cleared, according to the statement issued by Maliara. Since the beginning of the counter-offensive ten weeks ago, a total area of 40 square kilometers near Bakhmut has already been liberated.
14:14. Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, notes that Russia has no real plans to restore the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories. “The goal is to turn them into a “gray zone” of an ecological disaster, a dumping ground for all of Russia, a land that is not suitable for life,” said O. Danilov.
12:50. The value of the Russian ruble in relation to the US dollar on Monday fell to the lowest level since March 23 of last year, when a month had passed since Moscow’s repeated invasion of Ukraine.
The consequences of the war started by Russia in Ukraine are increasingly affecting the value of the national currency. Western countries’ restrictions on Russian oil exports and price ceilings have reduced Russia’s export revenues.
11:20. The loss of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached 254,380 soldiers by Monday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army.
According to the data of the general staff, 530 invaders were destroyed during the day.
10:20. In Russia, the trial began on Monday against Ksenia Fadeeva, an ally of the imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is accused of creating an extremist organization, a court representative confirmed to the AFP news agency.
31-year-old Ksenia Fadeeva is a former deputy of the Siberian city of Tomsk, who was included in Russia’s terrorist list in January 2022. Fadeeva also headed Navalny’s political office in Tomsk.
08:40. On Sunday, the Ukrainian armed forces conducted counterattack operations in at least two sectors of the front and advanced in the western part of Donetsk and eastern Zaporizhia and western Zaporizhia, according to the latest review of the situation on the front by the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
It was previously reported that Ukrainian forces are advancing towards Melitopol and Berdyansk and have achieved partial success towards Robotine.
07:00. This morning, Russia again attacked Ukraine’s Odesa region with drones and missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force announced.
Air defense was activated in the region and the city of Odesa, and several explosions rocked the city, Ukrainian media reports.
Odessa was also shelled with rockets at night. Fragments of missiles shot down by anti-aircraft defense caused several fires in the city, including one supermarket. Three people were injured, Oleh Kipers, the head of the Odesa region administration, said on the Telegram platform.
00:10. Prigozhin’s militant gang “Vagner” is still valuable to the Russian dictator Putin, however Prigozhin himself can plan the activities of the “Wagnerians” only on the edges of Africa, reports pravda.com.ua.
2023-08-14 15:45:00
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