The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the temporary location of units of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artyomovsk, Donetsk People's Republic.

This was announced during a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

He noted that as a result of the strike, up to 130 servicemen and eight vehicles and armored vehicles were destroyed.

In addition, high-precision air-launched missiles struck at the temporary location of the howitzer battery of the 95th separate air assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Dzerzhinsk, Donetsk People's Republic.

The losses of Kyiv amounted to 70 military personnel, in addition, three Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts and four vehicles were destroyed.

The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkov, as a result, more than 100 nationalists were killed, the Defense Ministry added.

“In the city of Kharkov, on the territory of CHPP-3 and the Karpovsky Garden, as a result of the Russian Air Force strikes on the points of temporary deployment of the 3rd brigade of the National Guard, more than 100 nationalists were killed,” Konashenkov stressed.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation emphasized that the Kyiv regime is suffering heavy losses, and therefore the wounded who have not completed a full course of rehabilitation are sent to the front line.

“Due to high losses, Zelensky’s regime is taking measures to replenish the shortage of personnel of Ukrainian formations in the combat zone in Donbass.

Thus, a decision was made to send mobilized citizens to the front line ahead of schedule, who began training at the training center of the 72nd mechanized brigade in the city of Belaya Tserkov, Kyiv region.

Together with them, the wounded who were in hospitals are also sent, without waiting for them to complete a full course of rehabilitation after injuries, ”Konashenkov said.

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Air strikes and air defense work

Russian operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery hit three command posts, as well as manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 173 districts in a day.

The launcher of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system, five ammunition depots, as well as an arsenal in the Mykolaiv region were destroyed.

As part of the counter-battery fight, four platoons of the Grad MLRS, two platoons of Msta-B guns, and a platoon of Giacint-B guns were suppressed.

Russian air defense systems shot down eight Ukrainian drones and intercepted one multiple rocket launcher in the Kharkiv region in a day. 

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation to defend Donbass, 263 enemy aircraft, 145 helicopters, 1,701 unmanned aerial vehicles, 362 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,262 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 789 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,273 field artillery pieces and mortar, as well as 4756 units of special military vehicles.

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The situation around the Zaporozhye NPP



On the night of Sunday, August 7, Ukrainian troops launched a strike from the Uragan MLRS on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

As RIA Novosti was informed in the military-civilian administration of Energodar, the fragments fell no more than 400 meters from the operating power unit of the station.

“In the affected area were the area of ​​the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel and the post of automated control of the radiation situation.

Striking elements damaged the administrative buildings and the adjacent territory of the storage facility.

It is important to note that from the place of the fall of fragmentation submunitions and the rocket engine itself to the operating power unit is no more than 400 m, ”the agency’s interlocutor noted.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that according to an international convention adopted by a resolution of the UN General Assembly, Moscow regards Kyiv's shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant as an act of nuclear terrorism.

“We emphasize that this is not the first such provocation of the Kyiv regime at radiation hazardous facilities.

The shelling of the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP by Ukrainian armed groups is intentional and regular, creating a real threat to nuclear security not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe,” Colonel-General Mikhail, head of the Russian Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, head of the National Defense Control Center Mizintsev.