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MK is broadcasting events in Ukraine online. The 532nd day of the special operation is underway. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote that there was an attempt to fly two combat drones into the city. They were reportedly shot down by a Russian air defense system: one crashed in the Domodedovo area, the other in the Minsk highway area. Shoigu called the US sending Ukraine cluster munitions a war crime. He also accused the West of a proxy war against Russia.
Poland has received confirmation from Germany on the deployment of Patriot air defense systems in the republic by the end of 2023, the PAP agency reports.
Wednesday in the Telegram channel of the DPR representative office in the JCCC.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday that Warsaw plans to create a Polish-Ukrainian formation, ostensibly to strengthen security, but in fact pursues the goal of occupying Western Ukraine.
The West has deployed a grouping near the borders of the Union State of Russia and Belarus about 360,000 troops, 8,000 armored vehicles, 650 aircraft and helicopters, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
In Finland, the deployment of forces and strike weapons of the Western military-political bloc NATO is likely, which will be able to hit critical targets in the northwestern regions of the Russian Federation at a considerable depth, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu shared the details.
Shoigu: The West is ready investing in Ukraine creates serious risks of conflict escalation.
The readiness of the West to invest in Ukraine a significant part of the available resources in order to turn the tide on the battlefield creates serious risks of conflict escalation, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
Ukrainian edition of Strana.ua on its Telegram channel reported that a powerful explosion occurred near the city of Zaporozhye, which is under the control of the Ukrainian military.
The German government will most likely approve the supply of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine. About this «Izvestia» said the deputy of the Bundestag from the party «Alternative for Germany» (AfD) Evgeny Schmidt.
On the night of August 9, the Ukrainian army made an unsuccessful attempt to attack the positions of Russian troops in the Orekhov region in the Zaporozhye region. This was announced by the Acting Governor of the region Yevgeny Balitsky.
Russian military personnel eliminated the lieutenant colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Baranetsky, who commanded a unit that was armed with Leopard tanks, war correspondent Chingiz Dambiev said.
Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Zaitsevo in the DPR from a MLRS, firing ten rockets, the DPR representative office in the JCCC said on Wednesday on its Telegram channel.
Europe and the United States are horrified by the ability of Russian President Vladimir Putin to influence on their economies, journalist Clayton Morris said on the Redacted YouTube channel.
In the city of Vasilyevka (Zaporozhye region), Russian electronic warfare units discovered and landed a UAV UAV.
The appearance of smoke near the Sevastopol Bay is due to the training of the fleet, said the governor of the city, Mikhail Razvozhaev. He explained that the fleet organized a training session for radiation, chemical and biological protection (RCBZ) crews.
The volume of grain exports from Ukraine decreased by almost 40% in July after the termination of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, according to statistics posted on the official website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
The FSB reported on the arrest of a Russian who blew up a gas pipeline in Crimea in June — a man born in 1980 was recruited by the special services of Ukraine. The employees of the service stopped his criminal activities. According to the data, he, having received a task from Ukrainian curators, blew up a gas pipeline in the village of Koreiz on June 23 this year, using an improvised explosive device that was handed over to him through a hiding place.
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A man was wounded by shrapnel as a result of a fall of an unidentified object in the Belgorod region, doctors treated him on the spot, said the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov.
Ukrainian special forces «Iron Wolves» noticed near Krasny Liman, retired LPR Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko told RIA Novosti. According to him, a separate special-purpose battalion «Iron Wolves» worked near the village. He is part of the 1st Special Purpose Brigade of the VFU.
Several power lines and a gas pipeline were damaged in Nikopol, Ukraine — Nikolay Lukashuk, head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Council.