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The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) countries have called on Russia to immediately return full control of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant to the Ukrainian authorities. According to Ukrinform, the ministers said this in a joint statement published on the website of the German Foreign Ministry. "We demand that Russia immediately hand back full control to its rightful sovereign owner, Ukraine, of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant as well as of all nuclear facilities within Ukraine's internationally recognized borders to ensure their safe and secure operations. Ukrainian staff operating the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant must be able…

The Russian military in Ukraine's Kherson region is placing its equipment near strategic infrastructure. According to Ukrinform, Kherson Regional Council deputy Serhii Khlan said this in a Facebook post. "The Rashists are settling and placing their equipment near strategic infrastructure, both at the Kakhovka HPP and the Kakhovka Canal," he wrote. However, he added, Ukrainian forces have worked and will continue to launch precision strikes. Earlier reports said that in the Kherson region, the Russian military is covering its movement through the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant with the civilian vehicles of local residents. After Ukraine's Armed Forces…

Russian forces continue to shell the border communities of the Sumy, Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions from Russian territory. Ukraine's State Border Guard Service said this in a statement posted on its website, Ukrinform reports. On Tuesday, August 9, Russian troops continued shelling Ukrainian border areas using guns, MLRS, mortars and small arms. "Myropillia, Khotin, Nova Sloboda, Seredyna-Buda and Bilopollia communities in the Sumy region, Snovsk community in the Chernihiv region and Zolochiv community in the Kharkiv region came under enemy fire," the message reads. In the afternoon, enemy self-propelled howitzers fired 15 shells at the Nova Sloboda community. At the…

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 705 civilians have been killed and 1,823 more have been injured in Donetsk region. "On August 9, the Russians killed two civilians of Donetsk region: in Ocheretyne and Shevchenko. Another six people were injured," Pavlo Kyrylenko, Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, posted on Telegram. Currently, it is impossible to establish the exact number of killed and injured civilians in Mariupol and Volnovakha. In total, since February 24, 705 civilians have been killed and 1,823 more have been injured in the region. ol

Enemy ammunition detonates near Henichesk due to partisan data, Kherson region, near Russian-occupied Crimea, early on Tuesday, August 9. Kherson Regional Council deputy Serhii Khlan said this in a Facebook post, Ukrinform reports. "Kherson region. We can congratulate Henichesk on the beginning. Now the Ukrainian Armed Forces reach that area, too. In the morning, Russian ammunition detonated for over one-and-a-half hours at an experimental station (roughly speaking, between Partyzany [Rykove] and Novooleksiivka). We are waiting for official reports," Khlan said. He added that the Henichesk district is located on the administrative border with Crimea. Now there are no more safe…

Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets has called for the Secretary General of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send a security mission to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian forces. This is said in a statement published on the Ombudsman's Telegram channel, Ukrinform reports. “Once again, I call on the Secretary General of the UN, the IAEA and the entire world community to take possible measures to send a security mission to the Zaporizhzhia NPP, to completely demilitarize the NPP’s territory, as well as to provide security guarantees to the…

Russian invaders are deploying in Donbas obsolete Soviet-era mines that are considered indiscriminate weapons, which could inflict massive civilian casualties That’s according to a report by the British Defense Intelligence, seen by Ukrinform.  “Russia is highly likely deploying anti-personnel mines to protect and deter freedom of movement along its defensive lines in the Donbas. These mines have the potential to inflict widespread casualties amongst both the military and the local civilian population,” the report reads. It also notes that in Donetsk and Kramatorsk, Russia has likely attempted employment of PFM-1 and PFM-15 scatterable anti-personnel mines. Commonly called the ‘butterfly mine’,…

Speaking of "sabotage" by Ukrainian teachers in the occupied areas of Zaporizhia region, propagandist Sergei Mardan proposed that the Russians resort to torture and murder of Ukrainians, as well as to building a Gulag-type labor camp for defiant teachers. The corresponding video of a radio show on Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda Radio is available on YouTube, Guildhall reports, as seen by Ukrinform. "Sabotage in the initial period was totally at all levels. The head of the main utility company Chystota destroyed all the electronic control units, which is the unique equipment, as you understand, and there are no spare parts," said…

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has committed 27,203 crimes of aggression and war crimes against Ukraine. As the Prosecutor General's Office reports, 26,190 crimes relate to violations of the laws and customs of war, 73 – planning, preparing or initiating and waging the war of aggression, 28 – propaganda of war, and 912 other crimes. In addition, 12,724 crimes against national security were registered. Of them, 8,783 relate to encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, 1,525 – high treason, 1,800 – collaboration, 113 – aiding and abetting the aggressor state, 64 – sabotage, and…

Russia has lost at least 5,083 pieces of military equipment in its war with Ukraine since its unprovoked all-out invasion of Ukraine began on February 24. That's according to the international research group Oryx, which counts and identifies the destroyed/captured military equipment in Russia's war against Ukraine based on photos and videos published on the Internet, Ukrinform reports. As of August 7, photos of 3,238 pieces of destroyed Russian equipment were published on the group's website, including 109 pieces of damaged equipment and 326 pieces of abandoned equipment. Some 1,410 pieces of Russian military equipment were captured by Ukraine's defense…