2023-08-30 04:14:17
According to the Ukrainian army, it is making further progress in its advance on the southern front. “We are pushing back the enemy,” wrote the commander of the troops deployed in the Zaporizhia region, Brigadier General Oleksander Tarnavskyi, on his Telegram channel.
He did not give any details, but Ukrainian troops broke through a first strong Russian line of defense by capturing the town of Robotyne. According to consistent reports, they are now attacking the next Russian line blocking the way to the occupied cities of Tokmak and Melitopol. The goal is to reach the Sea of Azov, regarding 90 kilometers away, and to cut off the Russian troops.
“We succeeded in penetrating Russian positions in Orikhiv and Robotyne”
It is apparently Ukraine’s most important military advance to date. According to media reports, thousands of soldiers, some trained in the West, are advancing in the Zaporizhia region. A strategically important goal is to break through the Russian supply line, explains Laura Kipfelsberger.
The artillery under his command carried out regarding 1,200 fire orders in one day, wrote Tarnawskyj – an indication of heavy artillery combat. Ukrainian troops continued their offensive in the Melitopol sector, consolidated positions they had reached and eliminated enemy artillery positions, according to the evening report of the General Staff in Kiev.
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04:39 – Klitschko: Explosions in Kiev
According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, explosions can be heard in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Through his Telegram channel, he urged city residents to stay in shelters.
03:59 – Russia: Destroyed another drone towards Moscow
According to official information, the Russian air defense has once once more fended off a drone that was traveling in the direction of the capital Moscow. The UAV was intercepted and crashed over Rusa in the Moscow region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported in its Telegram channel. According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, there was no damage or injuries. The emergency services are on site. The information might not be independently verified.
03:22 – Governor: Drone attack on Sevastopol Bay
According to Russian sources, Ukrainian forces used drones to attack Sevastopol Bay on the Black Sea during the night. The Russian military is in combat readiness and is fending off the attack, wrote the Moscow-appointed governor of the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea, Mikhail Rasvozhayev, in his Telegram channel. The information might not be independently verified.
1:28 am – Moscow: Another four Ukrainian drones shot down
According to official information, Russia has repelled four Ukrainian drones once more. The Ministry of Defense in Moscow announced that three unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defenses over the southwestern border region of Bryansk. Another drone was shot down over the neighboring Oryol region. The information might not be independently verified.
01:08 – Brazil: Russia does not launch an international investigation into the Prigozhin crash
According to Brazilian sources, Russia is not allowing an international investigation into the plane crash of the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The government in Moscow has informed the Brazilian aviation authority Cenipa that it will “for the time being” not initiate an investigation into the crash according to international rules, the aviation authority told the Archyde.com news agency. Prigozhin, two senior generals from his Wagner group and four bodyguards were among ten people aboard the Brazilian-made Embraer plane that crashed north of Moscow last week.
23:36 – reports of explosions at Pskov airfield
According to local reports, several explosions have occurred at the airfield in the north-western Russian city of Pskov. The army is fending off a drone attack there, Governor Mikhail Vedernikov wrote in his Telegram channel. He also released a short video showing a bright glow of fire over the airfield and an explosion heard. According to preliminary information, nobody was injured, Wedernikow wrote.
The airfield is home to Russian Army military transport aircraft. Four Ilyushin Il-76 transport planes were damaged, the Tass agency reported, citing rescue services. The city is also home to a parachute division that took part in the first wave of attacks on Ukraine in February 2022.
8:18 pm – US announces another $250 million in Ukraine aid
The US has announced an additional $250 million in military aid to Ukraine. The Department of Defense in Washington said the aid package includes equipment for clearing mines and anti-tank obstacles, as well as anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles and more than three million rounds for handguns.
The support will help Ukraine “counter Russia’s ongoing war of aggression on the battlefield and protect its people,” the Pentagon said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the online service X (formerly Twitter) that he was personally grateful to the “US people, Congress and President Joseph Biden for the new defense package”. “Artillery, rockets, ammunition for the Himars (systems), that’s what our warriors need,” he added.
7:20 p.m. – According to Foreign Minister Kuleba, Ukraine does not see any decrease in western support
According to its foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine is not seeing any drop in international support. Neither in the US Congress nor in the EU Parliament has Kiev felt such a decline, Kuleba told journalists following a meeting with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna in Paris. According to Kuleba, corresponding voices can be heard in the USA and in “certain countries” in Europe. However, his country will “get through this” as it is fighting a “just fight” that deserves support.
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18:16 – Russia reports dead from Ukrainian shelling of border area
Russia accuses Ukraine of artillery shelling on a border village in the Bryansk region with fatalities. Several people were killed and five others injured in the village of Klimovo, regarding 15 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, the governor of the region, Alexander Bogomas, wrote in his Telegram channel. Children are said to be among the victims. The information cannot be independently verified at this time. Initially, there was no comment from Kiev.
5:03 p.m. – According to the press service, mercenary chief Prigozhin has already been buried
According to his press service, the Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has already been buried in his hometown of St. Petersburg. The 62-year-old was said goodbye at a funeral service in the closest circle without public, said the press service of the head of the private army Wagner on Tuesday. Interested parties who now also want to say goodbye to the businessman who died in a plane crash on Wednesday might do so at the Porokhovskoye cemetery, it said. Observers expect that the tomb might become a place of pilgrimage for thousands of Prigozhin’s followers.
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4:45 p.m. – German company is said to have delivered drone components to Russia
The federal prosecutor is investigating a German-Russian businessman who is said to have supplied electronic components for drones to Russia. The man is in custody, the authority in Karlsruhe announced. He is accused of repeatedly violating the Foreign Trade Act.
As managing director of two companies in Saarland, he is said to have given electronic components to a Russian company that produces military material and accessories in 26 cases.
Orlan-10 UAV and Akatsiya SPG
Source: picture alliance/dpa/TASS/Sergei Malgavko
This includes the Orlan 10 drone deployed by Russian forces in Ukraine. The components delivered between January 2020 and March 2023 worth more than 700,000 euros are subject to the Russia Embargo Ordinance, as the supreme German prosecutor explained.
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In order to avoid the sanctions, the German-Russian first imported the goods from abroad to Germany and then brought them to Russia via a company in Baden-Württemberg. Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression once morest Ukraine in February 2022, the components have also reached Russia via Dubai and Lithuania.
15:18 – Ukraine orders evacuation of children from five locations on Southern Front
Because of the fighting on the southern front, Ukraine wants to bring children from five towns in the Zaporizhia region to safety. A total of 54 children and 67 accompanying persons were affected by the “mandatory evacuation”, said the ministry responsible for the reintegration of Russian-occupied areas in the online service Telegram. It justified the evacuation measure with the “difficult security situation and enemy bombing raids”.
2:48 pm – Eleven years in absentia for two Russian journalists in exile
The Russian judiciary has sentenced two journalists in absentia to 11 years in prison for allegedly spreading disinformation regarding the military. According to the public prosecutor’s office, prison sentences were imposed on Ruslan Leviev and Michael Nacke on Tuesday because they distributed a video with knowingly false information regarding the Russian army in March 2022. The two journalists had already left Russia before their indictment in May 2022.
Since the start of the offensive in Ukraine last year, the Russian authorities have used accusations of spreading misinformation to silence government critics.
2:02 pm – Ukraine: One dead in Russian shelling in north-east
According to the authorities, a 45-year-old man was killed by Russian fire in northeastern Ukraine. In the incident in the city of Kupiansk, a 67-year-old was also injured, it is said. The city in the Kharkiv region was captured by Russian troops shortly following the start of the Russian invasion a year and a half ago and later recaptured by Ukrainian troops. According to Ukrainian sources, it is now once more under increased Russian fire.
1:16 p.m. – People say goodbye to pilots killed in crash in Kiev
The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Mykola Oleshchuk laid down a bouquet of flowers and offered his condolences to the dead man’s mother. The Ukrainian anthem was sung in the cathedral on the banks of the Dnipro.
The pilot with the combat name “Juice” died last Friday along with two other pilots during a training flight over the northern Zhytomyr region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy honored the victims in a speech as a defender of the “free Ukrainian sky” and announced an investigation into the cause of the accident.
Funeral service for Andriy Pilschchykov in Kyiv
What: Getty Images/Pierre Crom
1:01 p.m. – The Russian war is aggravating the educational misery in Ukraine
According to UNICEF, the Russian war of aggression is exacerbating the educational misery in Ukraine. Russian attacks on schools continued unabated, leaving children with no safe place to study, Regina De Dominicis, regional director of the AID for Europe and Central Asia, said in Geneva.
The children not only have difficulties in advancing in their education, but also in retaining what they have learned, the director explained. According to the latest survey data, up to 57 percent of teachers reported a deterioration in their students’ Ukrainian language skills. Up to 45 percent of teachers reported a decrease in math skills, and up to 52 percent noted a decrease in foreign language skills.
12:27 pm – Ukraine: Western states have allowed attacks on Crimea
According to its own statements, Ukraine has received approval from Western states for attacks on Russian objects in occupied Crimea. “Today there is an absolute consensus that we can destroy everything Russian in the occupied territories, for example in Crimea,” said adviser in the presidential office, Mykhailo Podoliak, on Ukrainian television on Tuesday night. A year ago, the western partners had spoken out once morest attacks on the Black Sea peninsula, which Russia had annexed since 2014.
According to Podoljak, the Ukrainian attacks are carried out exclusively for “defense motives”. He stated that the drones used in attacks in Russia were “of unknown origin”. At the same time, the adviser announced that the number of drone strikes will increase as the Russian leadership is increasingly losing control of both the airspace and the power apparatus. In addition to primarily military objects in Crimea, Kiev is now also attacking military airports and the capital Moscow with drones.
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12:09 pm – Putin will not attend Prigozhin’s funeral, according to the Kremlin
According to official information, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral of mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. “The president’s participation is not planned,” said his spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday, according to the Interfax news agency. The Russian leadership also has no concrete information regarding the funeral, the relatives would decide on the date, said Peskov. The preparations for the funeral service are a matter for the family.
Prigozhin’s private jet crashed last week. According to the authorities, all ten occupants on board the machine died.
Plaque in honor of Prigozhin in Moscow
Source: dpa/Alexander Zemlianichenko
In the morning, the independent Internet portal Fontanka from St. Petersburg reported that Prigozhin’s funeral was to take place on Tuesday in the metropolis. Preparations were underway, mourners had arrived at several cemeteries.
The mercenary chief’s plane crashed regarding halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg in the Tver region. According to official information, he was on board. The cause of the crash has not yet been clarified. However, large parts of the Russian public as well as Western governments assume that the private jet of the Wagner boss was deliberately brought down.
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Priogoshin, whose fighters fought alongside the regular Russian army once morest Ukraine for months, had instigated a mutiny once morest the military and state leadership in Moscow in June out of frustration at the lack of supplies. However, this was over following regarding a day.
10:59 am – Russia reports successful testing of domestic aircraft
According to official information, the Russian SJ100 aircraft, stripped of imported parts, has completed its first test flight. Industry Minister Denis Manturov spoke of a success for the Russian aviation industry, according to a statement from his agency on Tuesday. The sector is one of the hardest hit by Western sanctions that followed Russia’s war of aggression once morest Ukraine.
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10:25 am – Deputy Minister: Taurus cruise missiles are a game changer
The Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Volodymir Gavrilov sees a delivery of Taurus cruise missiles as a further improvement in his country’s military capabilities in defense once morest the Russian invasion troops. “With the Taurus system, we might attack Russian targets anywhere in the occupied territories. That would be the next game changer,” he says the broadcaster RTL and ntv. The cruise missiles supplied by France and Great Britain can be used to attack Russian targets at a distance of up to 200 kilometers. There are “several game changers” in the war. The federal government has not yet decided to deliver Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
09:52 – Ukraine reports further military advances following recapturing Robotyne
After recapturing the village of Robotyne in the south of the country, Ukraine says it is making further military advances in the region. The Ukrainian army has pushed deeper towards Russian defense lines in the partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhia region, army spokesman Andriy Kovalyov told state media. Accordingly, she recorded “successes in the direction of Novodanylivka to Werbowe”, two settlements in the region.
The Ukrainian army is also keeping recaptured territory under its control and is attacking Russian artillery, the army spokesman said.
The current situation in Ukraine
Source: Infographic WORLD
8:45 a.m. – Russia has apparently increased wages sharply since the beginning of the war
Since the start of the war of aggression once morest Ukraine, pay in the Russian army has increased significantly, according to British sources. “Military service in the Russian armed forces has become increasingly lucrative since the invasion,” Britain’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. Wages and bonuses are strong motives for joining the military, “especially for those from the poorer areas of Russia”. At the same time, the authority emphasized: “However, it is still unlikely that Russia will achieve its goals in recruiting volunteers for the armed forces.”
The British ministry referred to statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who on February 4, 2022 – just under three weeks before the start of the war – gave a lieutenant’s salary at 81,200 rubles a month. In the meantime, however, even privates who had already been mobilized received 195,000 rubles (currently 1,887 euros) according to official figures. And many NCOs fighting in Ukraine earn more than 200,000 rubles a month. “This is more than 2.7 times the Russian median wage of 72,851 rubles,” it said in London. Applied to the UK, that means an annual salary of more than £90,000 (€105,000).
Russian soldiers march on Senate Square in St. Petersburg during celebrations of Navy Day in late July
Quelle: picture alliance/ZUMAPRESS.com/Alexander Kazakov/Kremlin Pool
08:33 – Russia reports repelling Ukrainian drone strikes in Tula and Belgorod
Russia says it has repelled Ukrainian drone strikes in two regions of the country. Air defense shot down two drones over the Tula region south of Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday in the Telegram messenger service. Another drone was destroyed on Monday around 11:00 p.m. local time (10:00 p.m. CEST) over the southern Russian region of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine.
The ministry did not say whether there were injuries or damage to property. Over the past few days, drones from Ukraine have repeatedly been shot down at the capital Moscow and other Russian regions. The leadership in Kiev had previously announced that it would take the conflict back to Russia because of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. However, the damage caused so far by the drone attacks in Russia is minor.
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3:13 a.m. – Federal Ministry of the Interior: Much more Russian disinformation
The Federal Ministry of the Interior continues to see numerous attempts at Russian misinformation. “Russian authorities continue to spread disinformation at a high level,” said a spokesman. “The well-known narratives are still being disseminated and current topics are being addressed. In doing so, Russia continues to rely on a complex network of state or state-controlled actors.” Social media such as Telegram are primarily used.
A year ago, the ministry expressed concern over fake and deceptively real-looking media websites with pro-Russian disinformation surrounding the Ukraine war. Real-looking but fake websites from established news sites are being distributed on social media via fake accounts. Now the spokesman said: “There has been no decrease in Russian disinformation over the past twelve months.”
01:45 – Ukrainian Defense Minister rejects renewed allegations of corruption
The Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has rejected renewed allegations of corruption once morest his house. He calls on everyone to “handle information more critically and responsibly,” Resnikov told journalists, referring to reports in the Ukrainian media regarding winter uniforms that were allegedly overpriced. Several media outlets had previously reported that the Ministry of Defense in Kiev signed a deal with a Turkish company to supply winter uniforms at the end of 2022, the price of which tripled following the deal was signed.
Oleksiy Reznikov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine
Quelle: pa/dpa/Boris Roessler
According to media reports, one of the owners of the company is Oleksandr Kassai, a nephew of Gennady Kassai, who in turn belongs to the party of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Reznikov dismissed the reports, saying they “misled society.” Worse still is the impact on Ukraine’s partners, as such reports create the impression of a “disaster”. When purchasing the uniform, everything was done “in accordance with the law on public procurement” and “on tendering procedures,” Resnikov said.
23:20 – Zelenskyy announces maximum increase in weapons production
After more than a year and a half of war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced a maximum increase in arms production to fight the Russian invasion. In addition to artillery weapons and ammunition, drones, rockets and armored vehicles should also be manufactured in the country. “We are increasing the production volume to a maximum. Ukraine can do that. The funding is in place. Our defense industry will bring good results,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video message.
The Ukrainian leadership has repeatedly announced plans to turn the country into one of the largest arms producers. According to Selenskyj, he met with representatives of the defense industry so that production might be further ramped up.
The country is dependent on huge amounts of ammunition and weapons in its counter-offensive to liberate the occupied areas, which has been sluggish for weeks. The country relies primarily on the military aid of Western allies.
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