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Post by Admin on Aug 27, 2024 9:06:05 GMT
While Russia's ally Belarus is said to be gathering troops near the border with Ukraine, the Russian private military company ``Wagner'', which is said to include ex-combatants, is not active in the border area. issued a statement suggesting that they did not.
Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out on the 25th that the Belarusian army is concentrating a significant number of troops, including military equipment, near the border with Ukraine under the guise of an exercise. He said that this He said that this included former Wagner fighters, and called on the Belarusian side to stop its unfriendly actions and withdraw its troops from the border area.
Meanwhile, according to Reuters, Wagner issued a statement on the 26th saying that he was "active only in Africa and Belarus."
It also states that ``Wagner is not participating in the invasion of Ukraine at this stage,'' suggesting that he is not active near the border.
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Post by Admin on Aug 27, 2024 23:37:11 GMT
A nearly round-the-clock curfew has been imposed in frontline communities in the Donetsk region
Donetsk regional authorities on Tuesday extended the curfew, making it nearly round-the-clock, in communities that found themselves on the front line due to the rapid advance of Russian troops.
The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Vadim Filashkin, announced that the curfew in the Pokrovsk and Selidovsk communities (administrative unit, “community”), as well as in the Kurakhovsk community, will be in effect from Wednesday from 15:00 to 11:00, that is, 20 hours a day.
During this time, movement within the community territory will be limited, as Filashkin wrote on social networks.
In recent days, the Russians advancing towards Pokrovsk have moved the front line no more than ten kilometers towards it. Selidovo is located at the southern edge of the "tongue" of the Russian offensive, almost on the front line. Kurakhovo has been a frontline town since 2014: from it to the outskirts of Donetsk - about 25 km in a straight line.
"Be responsible! Evacuate!" - this is the call the head of the Donetsk regional administration gave to his message about extending the curfew.
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Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2024 13:42:54 GMT
At least three major Ukrainian news agencies, RBC-Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine and UNIAN, reported the words of an anonymous source in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the country's Ministry of Defense that the attack on the oil depot in the Kamensky district of the Rostov region was a Ukrainian operation.  As reported by the source of Interfax-Ukraine, the State Defense Committee and the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine took part in the operation with the use of attack drones. As a source in the GUR told the Interfax-Ukraine agency, the damaged facility is part of the Russian military-industrial complex and is directly involved in providing enemy troops. The exact results of the operation are still being clarified, the source noted. It is indicated that the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Atlas Plant” of the Federal Agency for State Reserves in the Southern Federal District specializes in the supply of petroleum products for the RF Armed Forces. |
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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2024 0:41:58 GMT
President Zelenskiy described the situation in the small city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region as "extremely difficult" and acknowledged that Ukrainian forces were outnumbered. On the other hand, he indicated that he intends to continue the cross-border attack by the Ukrainian military on the Kursk region in western Russia, explaining that it is necessary to prevent the Russian army from sending any more troops into the Donetsk region.
Institute for the Study of War also noted on the 27th that the Russian army had made "important tactical advances" in the Pokrovsk area. The analysis suggests that the Russian army seems to have secured the center of Novogrodovka, a town near Pokrovsk, and then advanced more than 2 kilometers toward Pokrovsk. If the Institute for the Study of War's analysis is correct, Russian forces will be within 10 kilometers of Pokrovsk.
From the beginning of the invasion, the Russian army set its main goal as conquering the entire Donetsk region. The offensive continues in the Pokrovsk, Chasovyar, and Tretsk areas of the region. The Russian army is believed to be aiming to break through the Ukrainian military's defense lines and secure an advance route to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, the main cities of the Ukrainian-held region.
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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2024 19:28:39 GMT
A Ukrainian Air Force F16 fighter jet provided by Western countries crashed.
On the 29th, the electronic version of the American Wall Street Journal reported, citing American officials, that an American-made F16 fighter jet provided to Ukraine and used in combat crashed on the 26th of this month.
The cause of the crash was not an attack by the Russian military, but rather a pilot error.
By the 4th of this month, the first F16s donated by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) member countries had arrived in Ukraine, and President Zelenskiy announced that the donated F16s will participate in combat for the first time on the 26th, and will defeat Russian missiles. It was revealed that he had been shot down.
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