Trophies from the Izyum direction: the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation demonstrated Western-made weapons seized from the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Russian Ministry of Defense demonstrated Western weapons captured during a special military operation on the positions of Ukrainian armed formations in the Izyum direction.

“Among the trophies, weapons are mainly of foreign production - hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers made in Great Britain, the USA, Poland, Sweden, including Javelin and Carl Gustaf missile systems, as well as heavy machine guns and Soviet-made small arms abandoned by Ukrainian nationalists,” the message says.

• The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation demonstrated Western-made weapons seized from the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Earlier, the White House noted that since the end of February, more than $8 billion has been allocated to Ukraine as military aid.

At the same time, a documentary was released on American television, from which it follows that a significant part of military assistance to Ukraine from Western countries does not reach the front, and donor countries often do not have the opportunity to control its use.

According to the authors and experts of the film, shot by the CBS channel, a significant part of the weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine ends up on the black market, and only about 30% of the supplies reach the front line.

Summary of the DNR and LNR

Ukrainian armed formations shelled the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic 48 times over the past day, a total of 312 units of various ammunition were used, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire said.

“In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used the Grad MLRS, 155-, 152- and 122-mm artillery, and a tank.

On Yasinovatsky - 155-, 152- and 122-mm artillery, 120-mm mortars.

On Gorlovsky - 155- and 122-mm artillery, 120-mm mortars, ”the message says.

Two civilians became victims of Ukrainian shelling, seven people received injuries of varying severity.

According to the data given, during the shelling, 25 housing constructions were damaged in the Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky, Chervonogvardeysky and Central City districts of Makeevka, as well as three civilian infrastructure facilities.

In turn, the official representative of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic, Ivan Filiponenko, said that during the offensive, the Ukrainian military lost up to 45 personnel, nine armored personnel carriers, and four units of special vehicles.

Vessels with food

Four dry cargo ships with Ukrainian agricultural products have left Ukrainian ports and are heading to Istanbul, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense said.

“The ship Mustafa Necati, which is carrying 6,000 tons of sunflower oil, is heading to Italy.

Star Helena, which transports 45 thousand tons of sunflower seeders and is sent to China.

Glory, which transports 66 thousand tons of corn and arrives in Istanbul.

The Riva Wind ship carrying 44 thousand tons of corn and arriving in Iskenderun.

Vessels left Ukrainian ports.

The ships will be anchored north of Istanbul and will be inspected by a joint coordination center, ”RIA Novosti quotes the text of the message.

According to the UN, the joint coordination center allowed several ships to enter the maritime humanitarian corridor.

So, four ships will transport over 161 tons of food from Chernomorsk and Odessa, another dry cargo ship has received permission to arrive at the port of Chernomorsk, TASS reports.

Shelling of Alchevsk

During the shelling of a multi-storey building in Alchevsk, the Ukrainian military used a rocket from the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, the representative office of the Lugansk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime said.

“From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded (18:45, August 6) at the settlement of Alchevsk using the HIMARS MLRS (one rocket),” the report says.

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According to the LPR General Prosecutor's Office, according to preliminary data, one civilian was killed, nine were injured, including one minor, as a result of the shelling.

Shelling of Donetsk

On the morning of Sunday, August 7, Ukrainian armed forces shelled a number of districts of Donetsk, firing shells of 152 and 155 mm caliber, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire said.

The Kuibyshevsky, Kyiv and Petrovsky districts of the city were shelled.

Along with this, in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a man born in 1959 was blown up on a prohibited anti-personnel mine PMF-1 "Petal" of pressure action.

In total, there have already been 29 such cases, including with a child, one of the victims died in the hospital.

As the correspondent of RT notes with reference to the data of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR, the Lepestok mines have been discovered over the past day in the Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of the city.