Russia will use conventional tactics of brute force in Kursk region - Dutch expert
It can be expected that Russia will deploy the necessary forces to launch a counter-offensive and push the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the Kursk region.
16 August 2024
It can be expected that Russia will deploy the necessary forces to launch a counter-offensive and push the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the Kursk region.
Ukraine is conducting an operation in the Kursk region with the help of military support from Western countries, and it is very important for them that all actions take place in accordance with the rules of war.
Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) deputy chief of staff Lt Col. Mattias Puusepp has said that the course of Ukraine's operation in the Kursk region indicates that the Russian Armed Forces have command and control problems in this area.
The Galaktika shopping center has burned down in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine occupied by the Russian army since 2014. Before the occupation, it was the Amstor shopping center, which the invaders appropriated and renamed.
Ukrainian forces destroyed ten pieces of Russian military equipment and weapons in the area of responsibility of the Tavria Group of Forces and killed or wounded 25 occupiers in the early hours of Friday, August 16.
Danielle Bell, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, has said that the testimonies of freed Ukrainian soldiers confirm the systematic practice of torture in Russian captivity.
Russian drones have attacked an ambulance in Stanislav and rescuers putting out a fire in Antonivka, Kherson region.
Russia has begun to deploy forces to the Kursk region to prevent the advance of Ukrainian units deeper into Russian territory.
Over the past day, 256 Russian attacks were recorded in the area of responsibility of the Tavria operational and strategic grouping of troops.
In the village of Tomyna Balka, Kherson region, a second individual sustained injuries as a result of the morning shelling and subsequently required medical assistance.
Ukrainian scouts damaged 18 Russian vessels in 18 months thanks to Ukrainian-made MAGURA V5 unmanned maritime drones.
At night in Sumy region, the Russian military dropped a guided bomb on the Krasnopilia community, injuring two women.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) neutralised a network of Russian agents in Kherson who were reconnoitering the locations of the Defence Forces and spying on officials of the regional military administration.
In the Sumy region, 36 settlements were shelled over the past day, a civilian was killed and three civilians were injured as a result of the attacks.
The Command of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed a video of the first hours of the Defence Forces' offensive in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation on 6 August 2024.
The Canadian Ministry of Defence said that the Ukrainian military could use tanks and armoured vehicles provided by Canada in Russia.
Last night, the Ukrainian Defence Forces shot down five Russian drones.
On the morning of Friday, 16 August, a local resident was injured as a result of Russian shelling of Tomina Balka in the Kherson region.
Russian forces attacked 25 towns and villages in the Kherson region on August 15, killing one person and injuring five others, including a child.
The Russian military killed three residents of the Donetsk region on Thursday, August 15.
Russian forces launched more than 360 strikes on 13 towns and villages in the Zaporizhzhia region on August 15.
Russia lost about 596,950 troops in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and August 16, 2024, including 1,330 soldiers killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours.
White House National Security Advisor John Kirby has confirmed that Russia has diverted some military manpower and resources to the Kursk region.
The enemy again tried to attack Kyiv with strike drones overnight, and air defenses were activated in the Ukrainian capital.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces may have captured about 2,000 Russian soldiers during an operation in the Kursk region.
The United States remains reluctant to allow Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles inside Russia's Kursk region and thinks they would be better used to continue targeting Russian-occupied Crimea.
The Russians have started producing more fake videos about the Kursk region with people dressed in the uniform of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, near the pier in Kilen Bay, where the ship repair plant of the Russian Black Sea Fleet is located, the occupiers built a model of a downed Russian submarine to deceive Ukrainian intelligence.
15 August 2024
The number those injured as a result of a Russian airstrike on a civil enterprise in the village of Prylokotne of the Kupiansk district in Kharkiv region has increased to six.
Thursday evening, Russian artillery opened fire on the village of Verhnyokamianske of the Zvanivka community in Donetsk region with artillery, killing two residents.