Shipments from Ukraine. Day 908.
As Ukraine continues its offensive across the border in Russia’s Kursk region, its forces have destroyed or broken up to three main bridges, cutting off lines of Russian origin. On August 16, Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk released a video of a Russian giant explosion. bridge. ” The air force is also fighting in the Kursk region,” the caption reads. The captain did not specify the call or the location of the bridge. However, a few hours earlier, Russian war correspondents had reported that the Ukrainian army had destroyed a bridge over the Sejm River in the Glyshkovsyi region. With the destruction of the bridge, three dozen towns in the region are cut off from the rest of the Kursk region, while the detached Russian 205th brigade complains that at least 700 Russian infantrymen are under threat of being surrounded, Ukrainian online TV channel Espresso reported. The Ukraine Air Force crashed into another bridge on Aug. 18, leaving it broken.
Ukraine now controls 1,250 square kilometers (483 square miles) of Russian territory and 92 towns in the Kursk region. “The withdrawal is our biggest investment in the process of liberating Ukrainians from Russian captivity,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Aug. 19. Ukrainian forces are advancing nearly 3 kilometers a day, said army commander-in-chief Col. Gen. Oleksandr. Syrskyi informed the head of state. We have everything under control,” the general added.
Ukrainian troops entered Russia’s Kursk region aboard British-made Challenger 2 tanks, Britain’s Sky News reported on August 15. Neither London nor kyiv have shown this information, carried out through various media based on unofficial photographs of the battlefield. The number of tanks in combat is unknown, but it would be the first time in history that British tanks would be deployed in Russia. British newspaper The Times wrote last week that former British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace revealed that while in office he gave kyiv the green light to achieve objectives in Russia with “all the weapons they provided. ” The long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles were the only exception, partly due to Washington’s reluctance. Wallace warned that the same regulations apply to the Ukraine incursion, under the newly elected Labor government.
As Ukraine advances its Kursk operation, its eastern and southern fronts remain in flames. On August 18, the Ukrainian and Russian armies had 139 clashes, almost a third of them near the city of Pokrovsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. As Russian forces approach Pokrovsk, a major defense center in the western part of the Donetsk region in the Ukrainian-occupied part, evacuations of remaining citizens are underway. But Russia paid a high price for its advances: the number of infantrymen lost exceeded 600,000 by day 908 of the invasion, according to the Ukrainian army’s count.
A new update on Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians is quite disheartening. On August 15 alone, the village of Prykolotne, in the northern Kharkiv region, was hit by three missiles. Two other people were killed in this attack and six others were injured, the national police reported. Later that day, the Russian military dropped several guided aerial bombs on the village of Zolochiv, injuring at least six civilians, including a 12-year-old boy. Some 35 private homes were also destroyed by rocket debris, as well as a music school building. For residents, an evacuation directorate from the Kharkiv region is operational; At least five civilians were transported to spaces by police on Aug. 15.
In Donetsk oblast, or eastern Ukraine region, a user was killed when a 9-story building was shelled by Moscow’s troops in the city of Myrnohrad, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said on Aug. 17. violent assault; Four other people were reportedly injured. On August 18, a young man was killed during the shelling of the village of Rozlyv. He was only 25 years old, Filashkin added. The attack also destroyed a line of force and destroyed several houses.
By Daria Dzysiuk and Karina L. Tahiliani
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