Russia lost about 41,350 soldiers in Ukraine war – General Staff
The Armed Forces of Ukraine killed about 41,350 Russian soldiers between February 24 and August 3, including 180 in the past day alone.
03 August 2022
The Armed Forces of Ukraine killed about 41,350 Russian soldiers between February 24 and August 3, including 180 in the past day alone.
Russian forces attacked Kharkiv early on Wednesday with missiles launched from Belgorod, damaging a civilian industrial facility.
The Russian invasion forces are continuing to inflict air and missile strikes on civilian targets across the territory of Ukraine. In Donetsk region, the Russians are focusing their efforts in the direction of Bakhmut.
Around 4:00 on Wednesday, August 3, two explosions rang out in Kharkiv.
The former commander of the Ukrainian National Guard’s Azov Regiment, Maksym Zhorin, said that a number of Ukrainian prisoners of war who died in the explosion at the Olenivka colony in the occupied area of Donetsk region have already been identified.
As a result of the latest Russian missile strikes targeting Mykolaiv, a fire broke out in one of the city districts, and a supermarket was destroyed in another.
The Pentagon on Tuesday denied Russian claims that the country had destroyed six U.S.-made HIMARS missile systems since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.
In the south of Ukraine, the invaders started creating a strike grouping in the Kryvyi Rih direction. The enemy is likely preparing a counteroffensive, planning to advance to the administrative border of Kherson region.
Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych has reported about explosions of cluster shells in the city.
02 August 2022
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has presented state awards to 305 Ukrainian defenders, 35 of them posthumously.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has discussed with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Chairman of the OSCE and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Zbigniew Rau the issue of Ukrainian prisoners of war, as well as the terrorist attack in Olenivka and the need to recognize Russia as a terrorist state.
After powerful explosions at about 21:00, a fire broke out in Mykolaiv.
As a result of Russian missile strike on Lviv region, two explosions occurred in the territory of a military unit in Chervonohrad district.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny had a phone conversation with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Mark Milley, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander of the United States European Command, General Christopher Cavoli.
The Russian forces have already fired more than 1,100 rocket projectiles at Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Ukrainian Air Force has destroyed seven out of eight cruise missiles that Russian invasion forces fired at the territory of Ukraine from the Caspian Sea.
Lviv region officials say a missile may have hit Chervonohrad district after a blast was reported in the area amid an air-raid alert that went off earlier.
The Ukrainian military repelled all offensive attempts by the Russian invaders toward Bakhmut, as well as assault operations in the Mineralne - Avdiivka direction. In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy was decisively repulsed by Ukraine’s Armed Forces, being forced to retreat.
Two Russian missiles were shot down over Vinnytsia region on Tuesday, August 2.
The number of people killed as a result of Russian strike on an evacuation minibus carrying civilians in Kherson region has risen to three.
The Russian troops struck Pokrovske community in Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region. Civilian infrastructure was destroyed.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated seven more localities in Kherson region, bringing their total number to 53.
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation satisfied the request filed by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation to designate the Ukrainian Azov Regiment as a terrorist organization and ban its activities in Russia.
The Ukrainian military quickly mastered HIMARS rocket launchers and demonstrated the effectiveness of their use on the battlefield against the Russians.
In Khrustalnyi, Luhansk region, the Russian troops try to conceal their losses after a missile strike launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are constantly preparing for any repeated offensives by the Russian army, considering and analyzing any possible scenarios.
A total of 1,054 settlements have already been liberated from Russian invaders in Ukraine.
The number of wounded Russian soldiers in the Kherson region is growing, which led to the deployment of a military hospital at a hospital in Beryslav.
Russian troops shelled 12 settlements in the Donetsk region on Monday, August 1, killing and wounding civilians.
Mandatory evacuation in the Donetsk region has begun.