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The war in Ukraine, day 919. Risky visit for Putin, early next month / On the Ukrainian front, Petrovsk is the new Bahmut / Von der Leyen criticizes Hungary’s pro-Kremlin policy

Russia puts all its forces into attacks aimed at breaking the Ukrainian defenses, in order to capture the entire Donetsk region.

UPDATE Russian attack on the city of Kharkiv kills at least 5 people, including a child, and injures 47 others

Russian forces attacked the city of Kharkiv on August 30 with aerial guided bombs, killing at least five people, including a child, and injuring 47 others, local authorities reported.

UPDATE Von der Leyen: certain EU politicians disturb the dialogue with Ukraine

“Today, some politicians from our Union, and even from this part of Europe, disturb the waters of our dialogue regarding Ukraine. They blame the war, not on the invader, but on the invaded; not Putin’s lust for power, but Ukraine’s thirst for freedom. So I would like to ask them: would you ever blame the Hungarians for the Soviet invasion in 1956? Would you ever blame the Czechs for the Soviet repression of 1968? The answer is very clear: the Kremlin’s behavior was illegal and atrocious then. And it is illegal and atrocious today”. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, stated this in her speech at the Globsec forum in Prague. “We Europeans can have different stories. We may speak different languages, but in no language is peace synonymous with surrender. In no language is sovereignty synonymous with occupation. Those who advocate stopping support for Ukraine are not advocating for peace. They support the appeasement and submission of Ukraine,” she added. The obvious shipment is to Hungary.

UPDATE Russian reporter sentenced to 8 years in prison

The court in the Russian city of Gorno-Altaisk, in the Altai region, sentenced a local journalist, Sergey Mihailov, to eight years in prison for criticizing the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine in his articles. This was reported by the local Prosecutor’s Office. Serghei Mihailov “published articles on the Internet in March and April 2022, which contain false information” about the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine, the Prosecutor’s Office announced in a statement on Telegram. The 48-year-old resident of Gorno-Altaisk worked for a local online newspaper, Listok. Investigators accused him of being “motivated by political hatred”. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, he will serve an eight-year prison sentence “in a general regime colony”.

UPDATE Russian services: two Colombian mercenaries arrested

Russia’s domestic intelligence service (FSB) said it had arrested two Colombian nationals on charges of fighting as “mercenaries” in the Ukrainian armed forces. A Moscow court ordered their arrest. “The Federal Security Service has arrested two citizens of the Republic of Colombia, accused of having fought on the Ukrainian side as mercenaries against the Russian armed forces,” reads a statement from the FSB quoted by the Tass agency. The intelligence service does not specify where the two men were captured. But the Russian online newspaper Mash writes that the Colombian citizens were blocked at the Caracas airport on the way back to their homeland, and Venezuela handed them over to Russia. The news has not yet been officially confirmed.

UPDATE Kiev: Russian raid on Sumî company, 9 injured / Regional Prosecutor’s Office: a fire broke out

Nine people were injured last night following an air attack by Russian forces against a company in the city of Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine: this was announced by the regional prosecutor’s office, according to Rbc-Ukraine. “According to preliminary data, nine people were injured as a result of the attack by the occupants,” the Prosecutor’s Office said, adding that the raid caused a fire.

UPDATE Kiev: 12 out of 18 Russian drones shot down during the night 4 did not reach their target

Russian forces attacked Ukraine last night with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 18 kamikaze drones, 12 of which were shot down, while 4 missed their target. The Ukrainian Air Force announced this on Telegram. The ballistic missile was launched from occupied Crimea, while the drones came from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk area, Krasnodar region, and the Kursk region of Russia. The destroyed drones were intercepted in the Ukrainian regions of Vinnytsia, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Sumy.

UPTATE Putin risks his freedom by going to Mongolia on September 3

UPDATE Moscow: 18 Ukrainian drones shot down during the night

Last night, Russian air defense shot down 18 Ukrainian drones in three regions of the country and on the territory of occupied Crimea: the Russian Ministry of Defense announced this on Telegram. 11 drones were shot down in Briansk region, 4 in Kaluga region, one in Belgorod region and two in Crimea.

UPDATE Ukraine: four explosions in Crimea

During the night in Crimea, in Kirovskoie, four explosions took place. Ukrainian Pravda writes the information. Three explosions were heard near the airport, one over the station.

UPDATE IAEA reschedules the visit to the Zaporozhye plant

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant were forced to hole up indoors on August 20 due to the threat of a drone attack, and also to postpone a planned visit to the plant for August 26. This can be read in a press release published on the organization’s website and relaunched by the Tass agency. On August 11, Tass also writes, a non-functional cooling tower at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant was attacked by a drone of the Ukrainian armed forces. Following the attack, the structure burned down.

Kyiv: Putin threatens the world with a nuclear catastrophe

“Four units of Ukrainian nuclear power plants were disconnected from the grid during the Russian attack on Monday. We are talking about the electric units 1, 3 and 4 of the Rivne NPP, as well as the electric unit 3 of the Ukrainian NPP, in the south of Russia. threat to the world”. Andri Yermak, the chief of staff of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, wrote this on Telegram. “It is a conscious decision by the Putin regime to threaten the world with a nuclear catastrophe,” he added.

Sirski visited the Pokrovsk front, where very hard fighting is taking place

The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Sirski, visited the Pokrovsk front in Donbass, where intense fighting is taking place with the Russian Armed Forces. Sirski wrote on social networks that it is “the most difficult situation” and the fights are “extremely tough”. Many compare the situation with the Bahmut bombed by the Russians until its total destruction.

Ukrainian Army: Very tough fighting in Pokrovsk

“The fighting is particularly tough” in Pokrovsk, an important logistics center that has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression. This was stated by the Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Sirski, who spent several days on the Eastern Front. Russia is putting all its forces into attacks aimed at breaking Ukrainian defenses, he said, adding that Ukraine has constantly had to resort to unorthodox methods to strengthen its positions. An eventual capture of Pokrovsk would compromise Ukraine’s defensive capabilities and supply routes and bring Russia closer to its stated goal of capturing the entire Donetsk region.

Russia: former deputy defense minister Popov, arrested

The former Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Pavel Popov was arrested on charges of fraud. He had been entrusted with the responsibility of developing “Patriot Park”, a theme park of military propaganda in Kubinka, about 60 kilometers from Moscow, where there is also a grandiose khaki-colored Orthodox church dedicated to the Russian military forces. According to investigators, Popov forced the companies that won contracts for the park to also work on his properties in the Moscow region and to transfer materials from the park back to his properties between 2021 and this year. The assets of Popov and his family, including other properties in the Krasnodar region, were valued at 5.5 million euros, much more than a deputy minister can get from his salary, the Investigative Commission announced. He faces up to ten years in prison. His detention was ordered until October 29. Popov, who is 67 years old and is a general, was dismissed from his position at the ministry last June, a month after the government reshuffle that also cost Serghei Şoigu his job. He is considered a close ally of Şoigu, with whom he already worked when he was Minister of Emergencies. He had followed him to the Ministry of Defense in 2013.

Source: www.mediafax.ro