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A Russian air defense system is destroyed in Crimea. In the northeast, Russia attacks. The news ticker on the Ukraine war.
With “painful losses“: Kiev expects long war once morest Russiadrone attack on Moscow: Kremlin reports launch of missilesThe information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the warring parties Russia, Ukraine and their allies. In particular, the information on losses suffered by the armies involved in the Ukraine war cannot be independently verified.
Update from August 23, 2:15 p.m.: According to the Ukrainian military intelligence service, it has destroyed a Russian S-400 “Triumph” anti-aircraft system on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia. “As a result of the explosion, the facility, the associated missiles and the operating personnel were completely destroyed,” said the secret service on Wednesday. Intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov had already announced further attacks on Crimea on Tuesday.
Drone footage was released showing the explosion on the Tarhankut promontory at the westernmost end of the peninsula. Images of a large explosion cloud were also distributed on social networks. The Ukrainian authorities did not initially say how the Russian air defense system was attacked. Russia initially did not comment on this.
Update from August 23, 12:55 p.m.: Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a video message to the Brics Summit in South Africa that Russia wanted to end the conflict in Ukraine. He repeats the accusation that the war was triggered by the West and its satellite states. Accordingly, Russia was forced to invade Ukraine.
Attacks in the Ukraine war: two people die in the northeast
Update from August 23, 12:10 p.m.: According to the government in Kiev, two people died in a Russian attack on a school in north-eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said the victims were teachers. Three other people were injured and two were trapped under the rubble. The attack took place in the town of Romny in the Sumy region. There was initially no comment from Russia. The government in Moscow has repeatedly denied allegations of attacking civilian targets.
There are no more civilians on the Kinburn Spit in Crimea. It is still under Russian control. (Archive photo) © IMAGO/RIA Novosti
Russia attacks port with kamikaze drones during Ukraine war
Update from August 23, 11:05 am: According to Ukrainian information, Russia has once more attacked a port in southern Ukraine with so-called kamikaze drones. Manufacturing and handling facilities had been hit, the governor of the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa, Oleh Kiper, told Telegram on Wednesday. As a result, a fire broke out over a total area of 700 square meters. According to local media, the objects were at the Danube port of Izmail on the Romanian border, which had already been attacked in early August.
Nothing was reported regarding possible civilian casualties. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, a total of 20 combat drones were fired at Ukraine during the night, eleven of which were intercepted by the air defenses.
Heavy losses for Russia: Kiev gives current figures
Update from August 23, 10:25 am: The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army has released the latest figures on Russia’s casualties. According to this, another 480 Russian soldiers fell within 24 hours and eleven tanks and 23 artillery systems were destroyed. The information cannot be independently verified as it comes directly from Kiev’s armed forces.
Soldiers: 258,820 (+480 on the previous day)Panzer: 4373 (+11)Armored Combat Vehicles: 8488 (+12)Artilleriesysteme: 5318 (+23)vehicles and tankers: 7745 (+23)Combat and reconnaissance drones: 4324 (+12)Source: General Staff of Ukraine data as of August 23, 2023Anm.: According to calculations by independent Russian media from early July 2023, around 47,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the Ukraine war so far. These figures differ greatly from those published by the Ukrainian side. The British secret service, on the other hand, places the numbers in the middle of these claims.
Update from August 23, 9:45 a.m.: Ukraine will win a victory in its war once morest Russia, but the battle might be protracted, resulting in significant Ukrainian casualties. This was stated by Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov during his speech at the VI. International Veterans Forum on August 22nd.
“We are facing a formidable and cunning enemy, and the war might be protracted because it is a real marathon,” Reznikov said. “We will continue to suffer painful losses. To defeat the Russians and prevent this problem from being passed on to future generations, we must accept that obtaining arms is the key to victory.”
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Dead following Ukrainian drone attack
Update from August 23, 9:15 a.m.: According to authorities, three people have been killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in the Russian region of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine. Three civilians were killed in the town of Lawy, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Wednesday (August 23) in the online service Telegram. “Ukrainian forces dropped an explosive device using a drone when people were in the street.”
Russian border regions have come under fire several times in recent months. In early June, armed militias advanced from Ukraine into the Belgorod region and engaged in skirmishes with the Russian army. The attackers described themselves as pro-Ukrainian Russian fighters.
Ukraine War: Russia attacks Odessa region
Update from August 23, 7:45 a.m.: The Ukrainian military reports Russian drone strikes in the greater Odessa and Danube region. The military writes on Telegram that plants in the grain industry caught fire. Warehouses and a production and delivery facility were affected. The fire in the camps was quickly brought under control. The fire brigade is still on duty.
Drone attack on Moscow: Kremlin reports shooting down of missiles
Update from August 23, 5:00 a.m.: According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian air defense systems shot down at least two drones over Moscow. The debris from one of the intercepted drones damaged a building in central Moscow, while the other was shot down by anti-aircraft systems west of the Russian capital, the military said.
The US does not support or facilitate attacks inside Russia, a US State Department spokesman said on the incident. But it is up to the Ukrainians how they want to defend themselves once morest the Russian invasion. Russia might end the war at any time by withdrawing from Ukraine.
Airports in Moscow cease operations
Update from August 23, 4:30 a.m.: Moscow airports have once once more suspended air traffic. This is reported by the Russian news agency Tass citing people familiar with the matter. The major airports around the Russian capital have been repeatedly closed in recent days due to Ukrainian drone attacks.
Ukraine War: Three dead in Russian attacks in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine
Three people were killed in Russian artillery attacks in two villages near the small Ukrainian town of Lyman on Tuesday evening. Two other people were wounded, said the head of the military administration of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, in the online service Telegram.
According to the Donetsk Prosecutor’s Office, the village of Torske was hit first, followed by the village of Sakitne half an hour later. The fatalities in Torske were sitting on a bench when the shelling took place.
In another attack in the village of Seredyno-Buda in northeastern Ukraine near the border with Russia, four people were wounded in a grenade attack and a residential building was hit by drones, the regional military authority said on Facebook. (With agency material)
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