War

At night on August 15, the Russian army used air and sea-based cruise missiles. Yuriy Ignat, a spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said this on the air of the 'United News' telethon, according to Ukrinform. "The Kh-22 missiles, which they have in service, were sent directly to the Donetsk region, to the city of Kramatorsk. Next, launches from the Caspian Sea - strategic aircraft Tu-95 struck with Kh-101/Kh-555 missiles. 20 missiles were launched from strategic aviation, flying all over the territory of our country," he said. Read also: Aggressor intensifies activity in Ochakiv direction…

The UN confirmed that 48 civilians had been killed and another 210 had been injured as a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine between August 1 and 13. This is reported by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ukrinform saw. Among the 48 dead are 23 men, 21 women, two children – a boy and a girl, as well as two adults, whose gender is yet to be determined. Of the 210 wounded there are 97 men, 57 women, six boys, and a girl. The gender of two children and 47 adults is yet to be…

Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale armed invasion of Ukraine, 502 children have been killed and 1,098 injured in the country. “More than 1,600 children in Ukraine have suffered from the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of August 15, 2023, according to the official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 502 children were killed and more than 1,098 received injuries of various degrees of severity,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram. It is noted that these figures are not final, as work is underway in the areas of active hostilities, in the temporarily…

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is actively promoting the role of his units in the war in Ukraine to improve his reputation as a Putin loyalist. This was reported by the British Ministry of Defense on social network X (Twitter), citing intelligence data, according to Ukrinform. It is noted that on 10 August 2023, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov acknowledged the efforts of the Chechen Vostok Akhmat Battalion in the heavily contested Orhikiv sector in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Kadyrov's comments highlighted the continuing role of one of the premier Chechen units in this key area. Vostok officially comes under the command…

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, as part of his working trip to Donetsk region, visited a frontline center where the wounded and injured Ukrainian soldiers from the Bakhmut sector are undergoing treatment. According to the President’s Office, the Head of State inspected the premises and equipment of the center, talked to the wounded warriors and medics. The command of the stabilization point told the President about their current needs, including armored evacuation vehicles. Volodymyr Zelensky awarded a wounded soldier of the 3rd separate assault brigade and two tactical medics of the 22nd separate mechanized brigade. Read also: Zelensky visits brigades…

Today, Ukrainian defenders struck a command post of the Russian invaders near Mariupol. The Strategic Communications (StratCom) Directorate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform. "Today, around 11:00 a.m., the Defense Forces of Ukraine inflicted damage on the command post of the Russian Federation’s troops stationed in the Khvylia sanatorium in the village of Yuryivka near  temporarily occupied Mariupol," the report says. Earlier, an adviser to the Mariupol mayor, Petro Andriushchenko, reported that more than 100 Russian soldiers were injured in a barrack struck in the temporarily captured village of Yuryivka near Mariupol. Read…

As a result of a Russian missile attack on Odesa on the night of August 14, the number of damaged houses has increased to 296. The Odesa City Council reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.  "As of 4:00 p.m., damage to 296 buildings was recorded in Odesa, 1,460 windows with a total area of about 2.5 thousand square meters were broken by the blast wave," the report says. As Ukrinform reported, the Russian forces attacked Odesa three times on the night of August 14, using 15 attack drones and eight Kalibr-type sea-based missiles. Seven educational institutions were destroyed, one…