War

In the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, at least five cases have been documented in the Skadovsk community where civilians abducted by the occupiers were later found dead with signs of violent death. This was reported in a Ukrinform publication by the Head of the Skadovsk Military Administration, Serhii Kukhta. “During the occupation of the Skadovsk territorial community, numerous violations of international humanitarian law, human rights, and evidence of violence against civilians by the armed formations of the Russian Federation have been recorded. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the number of abducted persons in the community…

Near one of the villages in the Seredyna-Buda community in the Sumy region, a retired couple on a motorcycle with a sidecar hit an enemy mine. The victims, a 75-year-old man and a 76-year-old woman, were hospitalized. This was reported on Telegram by the Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, Oleh Hryhorov, according to Ukrinform. “In the morning, a retired couple on a motorcycle with a sidecar hit an enemy mine. It happened near one of the villages in the Seredyna-Buda community, close to the border with Russia,” the report said. According to the Head of the Regional Military…

In the seaport of temporarily occupied Mariupol, Russian invaders are loading ships with stolen Ukrainian grain and coal. Petro Andriushchenko, Head of the Center for the Study of Occupation, reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform. "Mariupol port. Two ships are being loaded at once. One is under the elevator (as usual, they hide it), one is at the “bulk” pier - they are loading coal... We expect that the ship with coal will go to the port of Temryuk for export to Algeria, and the bulk carrier with grain to Egypt. Looting has resumed, as expected," Andriushchenko wrote. As…

The Security Service of Ukraine detained Russian agents who were preparing new missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and Odesa. According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the SSU. According to the case materials, the suspects were supposed to identify and share the locations of the Defense Forces with the invaders. The agents also spread information about the consequences of enemy strikes on civilian infrastructure to repeat attacks. It was established that both agents acted separately but had a common handler, whose identity has already been detected by SSU cyber specialists. To collect intelligence, the suspects went to the field,…

Units of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) attacked Russian forces with drones at an airbase in Hvardiiske near Simferopol, destroying two Mi-8 helicopters, and also targeted a tug in the Sevastopol Bay. According to Ukrinform, DIU reported this on Facebook. [embedded content] “Another result of the systematic combat operations by the DIU special unit Prymary (Ghosts) in temporarily occupied Crimea: using drones, we struck the Russian airbase in Hvardiiske near Simferopol successfully destroying two enemy Mi-8 helicopters. The estimated value of the disabled helicopters is $20–30 million,” the statement reads. Additionally, during the airstrike, Ukrainian fighters targeted a tug,…

The National Police of Ukraine have released photographs of the suspect in the murder of former Verkhovna Rada Speaker and Member of Parliament of the 9th convocation Andriy Parubiy. According to Ukrinform, the images were published on Facebook by National Police Chief Ivan Vyhivskyi. He said the suspect “had prepared for a long time, watched, planned, and finally pulled the trigger. It took us only 36 hours to track him down and detain him.” Vyhivskyi noted that on August 30 in Lviv’s Sykhivskyi district, the attacker “disguised himself as a courier and opened fire on the politician in broad daylight.…

Over the past day, 11 settlements in Kharkiv region came under Russian attack leaving one person dead and three others injured. According to Ukrinform, this was reported by Oleh Syniehubov, Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, on Facebook. In the village of Podoly, Kurylivka community, a 51-year-old woman was killed and a 59-year-old man was injured. In the village of Nechvolodivka, Kindrashivka community, a 67-year-old man was injured. In Kupiansk, a 43-year-old man was wounded. Russian forces attacked Kharkiv region with one Molniya drone, three FPV drones, and one other UAV type still being identified. Damage to multiple residential…

Russian forces carried out more than 150 strikes on 49 settlements in Sumy region in the past 24 hours, leaving civilians injured. According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the Sumy Regional Military Administration on Facebook. In Druzhbivka community, a man born in 1961 was injured in a drone strike. In Bilopillia community, a woman born in 1984 was wounded as a result of a UAV attack. The majority of Russian strikes were recorded in Sumy and Shostka districts. The enemy launched nearly 30 guided aerial bomb strikes, carried out 35 grenade drops from UAVs, and attacked with FPV drones,…

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) destroyed a Russian radar station of an S-300 system at the military airfield in Saky, Crimea. According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the SOF Command on Facebook. Overnight on August 30, Special Operations units carried out a series of special missions in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea. As a result, the radar station of an S-300 system at the Saky airfield was destroyed. Read also: Ukrainian SOF repel Russians in brutal trench fight on Zaporizhzhia front As reported earlier by Ukrinform, fighters from the Prymary special unit of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine…