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  The Russian army fails to form new units due to a lack of people willing to go to war. According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR MO).   Thus, according to intelligence data, the formation of a tank battalion, which has been ongoing since the beginning of July, has actually been disrupted in Nizhny Novgorod region of the Russian Federation. It was established that out of the required 160 people, only about 30 signed contracts for military service. For greater motivation, regional senior officials promise to pay…

Due to partisans data, the Ukrainian military have destroyed an enemy ammunition depot near the village of Chornobaivka, Kherson Region. “The destruction of enemy ammunition in Chornobaivka has been confirmed officially,” Khlan wrote. Russians are trying to make more depots with fewer stocks accumulated, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are reaching them everywhere, Khlan added. A reminder that explosions were heard near Kherson Region’s Chornobaivka on August 20, 2022. The Ukrainian military have destroyed an enemy ammunition depot near the village of Chornobaivka, Kherson Region.

  To stop resistant activities russian invaders have toughened filtration measures in Kherson region, the number of people abducted by the Russian military is increasing. "The number of Kherson region residents abducted by the Russian invaders has increased manifold. Volunteers who work in occupied territories, heads of apartment building co-owners associations who refuse to cooperate with the occupiers are at risk," Yuriy Sobolevskyi, First Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council, told Ukrinform. At the same time, if the invaders want to force, say, one of the spouses to cooperate, they can abduct both of them, he noted. According to…

Russian forces have struck the city of Voznesensk, located near the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Fragments of a missile were found in the observation area of the station, so it is not ruled out that the missile could have been fired at the South Ukraine NPP. Ukraine's Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom said this in a Telegram post, Ukrinform reports. "The very fact of the shelling of the observation area of the South Ukraine nuclear power plant is another cynical act of Russian nuclear terrorism. After all, the fragments of an enemy missile that hit a house were…

Service members with the anti-aircraft missile regiment of Ukraine's Air Command Center destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian invaders during the latest air raid alert on Saturday, August 20. According to Ukrinform, the Air Command Center said this in a Facebook post. "Anti-aircraft fighters of the Air Command Center are repelling the enemy's attack in designated directions, controlling the Ukrainian sky every minute. At around 12:00, on the eastern borders, two more unmanned aerial vehicles of the occupiers were added to the pile of enemy scrap," the report said. Earlier reports said that early on August 20, the…

Fragments of one of the Kalibr missiles, shot down today over Dnipropetrovsk region, damaged several private houses in Pokrov. Mykola Lukashuk, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, wrote this on Telegram and posted photos of missile fragments. "These are the fragments of Kalibr cruise missiles that were shot down over Dnipropetrovsk region today. Debris from one of the four missiles fell in Pokrov, damaging four private residential buildings," Lukashuk wrote. At the same time, he thanked the air defense forces for saving the region from a possible tragedy. As reported, on the morning of August 20, the air defense…

Kharkiv city is constantly under enemy shelling but it stands strong and fights. President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote this on Telegram and posted photos of destroyed infrastructure in Kharkiv city, Ukrinform reports. “Heroic Kharkiv. The occupiers carry out a constant and cynical shelling of the city. They terrorize civilians, destroy houses and infrastructure. But our Kharkiv, like all of Ukraine, knows how to defend itself. Wounded, tired, yet not defeated. It stands strong and fights. And it once again proves to the enemies that they cannot break or defeat our people and our cities,” Zelensky wrote. As reported, the number of…

Russian aggressors have already killed 362 children in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started. According to Ukrinform, the Prosecutor General's Office posted this on Telegram. "As of the morning of August 19, 2022, more than 1,078 children in Ukraine have been affected as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 362 children were killed and over 716 injured," the report said. These numbers are not final as efforts are ongoing to establish the casualties in the areas of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories, the report…

Latvia and the United States "stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people and their democratically elected   Latvia is a NATO frontline state that shares borders with Russia and Belarus, so Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks had much to discuss when they met  in Riga, Latvia. While Russia's invasion of Ukraine dominated talks, the leaders also spoke about plans to implement decisions made at the Madrid NATO Summit in June and the bilateral relationship between the United States and Latvia. Spotlight: Support for Ukraine "I'm visiting at a critical time for Europe…

A total of 17 civilians have been killed in Russia’s late night and early morning missile strikes on the city of Kharkiv. Two more civilians were killed in Russia’s missile strike on the city of Krasnohrad. The relevant statement was made by Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Head Oleh Syniehubov on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “During the day, rescuers were dismantling the houses destroyed. Unfortunately, seven more bodies of victims were recovered from under the rubble. Hence, as of now, seventeen civilians have been killed in Kharkiv, including a boy born in 2009. Forty-two civilians were injured,” Syniehubov wrote. A…