🇷🇺 The missile that struck Okhmatdyt, #Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, on July 8 was manufactured in #Russia only weeks, and possibly days, before the attack, the Conflict Armament Research investigative outlet reported.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 #Lithuania further renders continued military assistance to #Ukraine with yet another robust package of aid underway.
Tactical equipment, anti-drones, vehicles and logistic equipment, and some of the older equipment from the Lithuanian Armed Forces arsenal will get to Ukraine in August.
🇷🇺 Despite the intensification of fighting in #Russia’s southwestern #Kursk region over the past few days as an unprecedented Ukrainian incursion shows no sign of slowing, Russian lawmakers were at pains to stress on Friday that a second wave of mobilisation would not be necessary.
🇩🇪🇺🇦 As #Ukraine widens its attacks inside #Russia, there is no sign that the country's sometimes reluctant Western allies are putting pressure on Kyiv to ease off.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian special forces killed about 30 #Russian soldiers and destroyed six armored vehicles during a raid on the Russian-occupied Kinburn Spit on Aug. 9, #Ukraine's military intelligence reported.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia moved extra tanks, artillery and rocket systems to its southern Kursk region on Friday as it battled for the fourth straight day to end a shock incursion by Ukrainian forces.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 A column of Russian military vehicles and personnel was destroyed in #Russia's Kursk Oblast, the location of an ongoing Ukrainian incursion, Suspilne and the independent Russian media outlet Agentstvo said on Aug. 9.
🇷🇺 There are Russian military personnel in Ukrainian captivity who are considered dead in their homeland. Their relatives have even managed to bury “remains” in closed coffins. The Russian Defense Ministry did not provide the DNA testing results to the relatives.
🇷🇺 Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian army, appears to have ignored intelligence warnings that #Ukraine's Armed Forces were gathering near the border of Kursk Oblast, Bloomberg reported on Aug. 8, citing a source close to the Kremlin.
🇺🇸🇹🇷 Washington has warned #Turkey that there will be “consequences” if the country does not curtail its exports to #Russia of US military-linked hardware that is vital to Moscow’s war machine.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 European Commission spokesperson Peter Stano said on Aug. 7 that "Ukraine has the legal right to defend itself, including striking an aggressor on its territory," in comments to Suspilne in reference to the ongoing battles in #Russia's Kursk Oblast.
🇺🇦 Sumy Oblast authorities announced further mandatory evacuation of 23 border settlements in the region amid intensified Russian attacks, Governor Volodymyr Artiukh said on Aug. 7.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The Armed Forces of #Ukraine have seized a gas metering station in #Russia’s Kursk region as its unprecedented incursion into mainland Russia continues, pro-Kremlin Telegram channel Rybar reported on Wednesday.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The main pressure of #Russia's offensive should come to a close within one and a half or two months, #Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said in comments reported by Forbes Ukraine on Aug. 7.
🇷🇺 🇨🇵 'Portraying Paris as a crime-ridden cesspool, the video mocking the Games spread quickly on social media platforms like YouTube and X, helped on its way by 30,000 social media bots linked to a notorious Russian disinformation group.'
🇷🇺 A former Russian military official responsible for overseeing clothing supplies was arrested on bribery charges, law enforcement authorities announced Tuesday.
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