The 162nd day of the Ukrainian war. Latest information [papildināts 11:54]

11.54. The State Security Service has sent three criminal proceedings to the prosecutor’s office for criminal prosecution for activities related to supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine.

10.53. The mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandrs Senkevich, reports that around 04:00, the Russian army fired several rockets in the direction of residential areas. “At around 4:00 in the morning, strong explosions were heard in Mykolaiv. Two districts were shelled.”

09.30. The losses of Russian troops in Ukraine reached about 41,500 soldiers by Thursday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army.

Since the start of the re-invasion on February 24, Russia has lost 1,789 tanks, 4,026 armored personnel carriers, 946 cannons, 260 multiple-barreled rocket launchers, 118 anti-aircraft artillery systems, 223 aircraft, 191 helicopters, 742 drones, 182 cruise missiles, 2,960 ships, cars and 15 tankers. and 83 units of specialized equipment.

08.27. The General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine has already registered 26,465 war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine. Of these, 25,473 are violations of the rules and customs of war, 73 are cases of planning, preparing or allowing an aggressive war, 27 are cases of war propaganda, and 892 are other war crimes.

07.03. In the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, since the start of the war, 131 residents have been killed and 590 others have been seriously injured in shelling by the Russian army, the mayor of the city, Oleksandr Senkevich, announced on Facebook.

04.47. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi sharply criticized the global security architecture on Wednesday, admitting that it is not working because there are many conflicts in the world.

“These days, in our information space and social networks, there are a lot of announcements about conflict situations and threats… First – the Balkans, then – Taiwan, now maybe also the Caucasus,” the Ukrainian president said in a nightly video call. “All these situations seem different, although they are united by one factor, namely: the global security architecture did not work. If it worked, there would not be all these conflict situations,” Zelensky said.

03.59. Since February 24, when martial law was introduced in Ukraine, 6.4 thousand men subject to martial law were detained at the state border for attempting to cross it illegally, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine announced.

“More than four thousand of these violators were stopped by the border guards outside the checkpoints. The rest tried to cheat at passport control. There were men who pretended to be women, others tried to hide in vehicles, one even slipped into a rescue manger. Many fraudsters bought fake documents for various ailments for themselves or their for children, for the funeral of their wives or the birth of children; there was even a man who, according to the record in the document, was released from military service due to a difficult childbirth. Banal attempts to bribe the border guards often took place,” the statement said.

00.10. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that all Russia’s statements about readiness for negotiations are not true, because at the same time Russia is concentrating its forces to attack the south of Ukraine, reports pravda.com.ua.

August 3 live text here: Ukraine heroically defends its land for the 161st day.

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