Shipments from Ukraine. Day 908.
As Ukraine continues its cross-border offensive in Russia’s Kursk region, its forces have destroyed or broken up to three major bridges, cutting Russian home lines. On August 16, Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk posted a video of a Russian giant exploding. 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 205th separate Russian brigade complains that at least seven hundred Russian infantrymen are under threat of being surrounded, the Ukrainian online TV channel Espresso. The Ukrainian Air Force crashed into another bridge on August 18, leaving it broken.
Ukraine now controls 1,250 square kilometers (483 square miles) of Russian territory and 92 towns in the Kursk region. “Consistent resignation is our greatest investment in the process of liberating Ukrainians from Russian captivity,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on August 19. The forces are advancing at about 3 kilometers a day, the commander-in-chief of the army, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, informed the Head of State. “We have everything under control,” the general added.
Ukrainian troops entered Russia’s Kursk region in British-produced Challenger 2 tanks, British Sky News reported on Aug. 15. Neither London nor Kiev showed this information, made through various media outlets based on unofficial photographs of the battlefield. It is unknown, but it would be the first time in history that British tanks would be deployed in Russia. The British newspaper The Times wrote last week that former British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace revealed that, while in office, he had given Kyiv the green light for strike targets in Russia “with all the weapons provided to him. “The long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles were the only exception, in part due to Washington’s reluctance. Wallace cautioned that the same regulations apply to the incursion into Ukraine, under the newly elected government. Labour government.
As Ukraine advances its Kursk operation, its eastern and southern fronts are still on fire. 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 the remaining citizens are underway. But Russia paid a heavy 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 pretty grim. On August 15 alone, the village of Prykolotne in the northern Kharkiv region was hit by three missiles. The attack killed two other people and injured six others, national police reported. he said. Shortly later, on the same day, the Russian military dropped several guided aerial bombs on the village of Zolotchiv, wounding at least six civilians, including a 12-year-old boy. Some 35 private homes were also destroyed by rocket debris. . as well as the building of a music school. An evacuation direction of the Kharkiv region is operational for residents; At least five civilians were transported to spaces by police on August 15.
In the Donetsk oblast or region of eastern Ukraine, one user was killed when a 9-story building was shelled by Moscow troops in the city of Myrnohrad, the Defense Ministry said on August 17. Regional Governor Vadym Filashkin. the unfinished construction, split in two by the 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