Russia keeps at attacking Ukraine energy assets…..
Alos….
Russia keeps moving in the Donetsk rand Lugansk rregion’s….
Ukraine loses it’s first F-16 , not from combat….
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Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday urged the EU allies to expedite deliveries of promised air defence systems. “I conveyed a sense of urgency regarding the delivery of already pledged military aid, including air defence systems,” he said on X after his meeting with the EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
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Russia on Thursday held former deputy defence minister Pavel Popov on fraud charges in the latest arrest of a high-ranking military official. Moscow has arrested at least nine army officials in recent months in the midst of its Ukraine offensive, in what some analysts have called a purge of military figures seen as corrupt.
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Ukraine’s mission to the IAEA said Monday’s attack by Russia on its energy infrastructure was intended to paralyse the operation of power facilities. “It is a deliberate decision by the Putin regime to threaten the world with nuclear catastrophe,” Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, said on Telegram messenger.
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A Ukrainian F-16 jet was destroyed in a crash on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported citing a U.S. official. The official said it looked like the incident had not been caused by enemy fire and was likely the result of pilot error.
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Ukraine’s top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Thursday he spent several days on the eastern Pokrovsk front that has seen an intensified Russian push recently. Syrskyi said on Facebook that Russia was throwing everything it could into its assaults, trying to break through Ukrainian defences.
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Russia said Thursday that it took two more east Ukrainian villages – in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions – as its forces continue their advance deeper into the country.
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Ukrainian air defences shot down about 15 drones launched by Russia in its third attack on the Ukrainian capital in four days, Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on Thursday……
Aug 29, 2024 – ISW Press
Russian forces are currently pursuing two immediate tactical efforts as part of their ongoing offensive operation to seize Pokrovsk — a tactical effort along the Novohrodivka-Hrodivka line east of Pokrovsk to seize Myrnohrad and advance up to Pokrovsk’s outskirts, and another tactical effort along the Selydove-Ukrainsk-Hirnyk line southeast of Pokrovsk aimed at widening Russia’s salient in the Pokrovsk direction and eliminating vulnerabilities to Ukrainian counterattacks.