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08 August 2022
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which Russian invaders are now threatening to blow up, contains 1,200 tonnes of nuclear fuel. If Russia decides to commit a terrorist attack, the nuclear disaster will affect the territories of both Russia and Ukraine.
The U.S. government has announced the allocation of $1 billion in new security assistance for Ukraine, which will include additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), 155mm and 120mm artillery ammunition, munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), other weapons and equipment.
Intense hostilities since the start of Russia's invasion on February 24 have left at least 17.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and protection, an increase of around 2 million people compared to April.
Sanctions against the entire nuclear industry of the Russian Federation must be adopted as soon as possible, including due to Russian threats against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Ukrainian forces have repelled a Russian offensive toward Avdiivka and Pisky.
Ukraine's SBU State Security Service has prevented a series of contract killings of representatives of the top military and political leadership and public figures of Ukraine, including Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov and Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Kyrylo Budanov.
Finland will send about 20 service personnel to the United Kingdom to train the Ukrainian military.
Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets has called for the Secretary General of the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send a security mission to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian forces.
More than 530 civilians have been evacuated from Donetsk region on August 6, according to the Donetsk Regional Military Administration.
The Russian forces have declared they are ready to blow up mined Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
In the Donetsk direction, the Ukrainian Naval Forces have destroyed an enemy tank and 12 Russian invaders over the past day.
In the morning of August 8, 2022, Russian troops shelled the city of Kharkiv with cluster munitions. Fortunately, over 20 projectiles remained unexploded. Otherwise, much more casualties would have been reported.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has shot down four Kalibr cruise missiles fired by Russian invaders from the Black Sea.
Russian troops used the Kh-47M Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched missiles to strike military objects in Vinnytsia Region.
Near the city of Uman, Cherkasy Region, the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense units have shot down a Russian missile. Two persons were injured by the enemy projectile fragments.
Russian invaders continue to extensively open fire on Donetsk Region. On August 8, 2022, such communities as Marinka, Avdiivka and Ocheretyne came under enemy fire.
In the north of Kharkiv region, a Russian ammunition depot was destroyed as a result of a successful aerial reconnaissance effort followed by a massive strike.
Russian troops are launching strikes at an eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv so local authorities have urged local residents to remain in shelters.
Russian invaders are deploying in Donbas obsolete Soviet-era mines that are considered indiscriminate weapons, which could inflict massive civilian casualties
Since the full-scale invasion on February 24, the Russian army has lost 42,340 servicemen in Ukraine.
Speaking of "sabotage" by Ukrainian teachers in the occupied areas of Zaporizhia region, propagandist Sergei Mardan proposed that the Russians resort to torture and murder of Ukrainians, as well as to building a Gulag-type labor camp for defiant teachers.
The Ukrainian military on Sunday, August 7, hit the Antonivsky and Kakhovsky bridges, again.
Every day, the invaders try to create favorable conditions for intensifying their offensive deep into Donetsk region.
At night, the Russian army struck Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts of Dnipropetrovsk region with missiles and Grad MLRS.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine detected and neutralized enemy reconnaissance groups in the areas of Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, and Yakovlivka localities.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the dislocation points of Russian troops in Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region. More than 100 enemy soldiers were eliminated.
Russian aggressors struck the territory of Marhanets territorial community of Dnipropetrovsk region.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has committed 27,203 crimes of aggression and war crimes against Ukraine.
In the south, Ukrainian defenders eliminated 24 Russian soldiers, destroyed six equipment units and an ammunition depot over the past day.
07 August 2022
Russian invaders have fired missiles at military facilities in the Vinnytsia region.