Zelensky thanks U.S. for new military aid package
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has thanked the United States for providing another military aid package, worth $775 million, to Ukraine.
19 August 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has thanked the United States for providing another military aid package, worth $775 million, to Ukraine.
The restoration of full security at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and in Enerhodar can begin with an international mission to the station.
The German government will provide Ukraine with over 250 Vulcano high-precision artillery rounds.
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed a decree instructing the Secretary of State to send $775 million from the budget of the U.S. Department of Defense to help Ukraine.
The European Peace Facility has mobilized EUR 2.5 billion to finance the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine.
Rescuers have already retrieved the bodies of 15 people from under the rubble of a three-story residential building destroyed by Russia in the Saltivsky district of Kharkiv.
A new package of U.S. military aid to Ukraine includes ammunition for HIMARS systems and 16 howitzers.
The European Union furnished the International Court of Justice with relevant information in the case concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation).
The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled all Russia’s attacks in the east and stopped the breakthrough attempt in Southern Buh direction.
The International Committee of the Red Cross does not react to the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war by the Russian Federation in the temporarily captured Olenivka, Donetsk region.
Two more residents of Marhanets, who were injured in the enemy shelling, sought medical assistance.
Dmytro Kozatskyi, head of the Azov Regiment’s press service who now stays in Russian captivity, has called his relatives to say he is alive.
Vice-Admiral Oleksiy Neyizhpapa, the Commander of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, recently had a video conference call with Admiral Sir Benjamin John Key, First Sea Lord of the United Kingdom.
On Friday, August 19, an elderly man and a woman were killed in Donetsk region as a result of an enemy strike on the town of Bakhmut. Another elderly woman was injured and hospitalized.
One woman was injured as a result of Russian shelling of Orikhiv town in Zaporizhzhia region.
Kharkiv city is constantly under enemy shelling but it stands strong and fights.
The invaders shelled Marhanets city in Dnipropetrovsk region with barrel artillery.
Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners destroyed five UAVs and one Ka-52 in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia directions.
Residents of Zaporizhzhia city heard a series of loud explosions, which was the result of work of air defense forces.
In Kharkiv, the number of those killed in Russian missile strikes on a residential building and dormitory on August 17 and 18 has increased to 21.
The Security Service of Ukraine has detained a Russian national who had been deployed to Ukraine by the FSB to gather intelligence around Kramatorsk, a city in the country’s east.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the Kakhovka HPP Bridge, which the Russian occupiers had just restored.
For the show trial of the Azovstal defenders in the captured Mariupol, the Russians are set to bring in bogus "witnesses" and propaganda media. They may also stage a bloody provocation targeting the philharmonic where the “hearing” will be taking place.
Russian troops continue shelling the border areas of the Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
Russian troops, by constantly shelling Kharkiv, are trying to restrain the actions of Ukrainian forces so that they could not launch counter-attacks in other directions.
Russian troops struck two educational institutions in Kramatorsk this morning.
Russian aggressors have already killed 362 children in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated about 44,700 Russian soldiers between February 24 and August 19, including 400 in the past day alone.
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is readying about $800 million of additional military aid to Ukraine and could announce it as soon as Friday, August 19.
The Russian troops killed five civilians and injured ten more in Donetsk region over the past day.