Ukrainian pilots made 22,000 sorties since full-scale war started – Zelensky
The Air Force of Ukraine has already performed 22,000 combat missions since the beginning of the full-scale war.
04 August 2024
The Air Force of Ukraine has already performed 22,000 combat missions since the beginning of the full-scale war.
On Ukraine's Air Force Day, President Volodymyr Zelensky presented F-16 fighter jets in Ukrainian skies, emphasizing the beginning of a new phase in the Air Force’s development.
The Russian army lost nearly 8,220 personnel and 1,424 pieces of weapons and military equipment in Ukraine during the week of July 28-August 4, 2024.
All bans on the use of long-range capabilities donated by allies to strike Russian weapons storage sites must be lifted immediately.
In the area of Hlyboke, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to attack Ukraine’s defense positions.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian Air Force has destroyed more than 8,000 enemy aerial targets, including hundreds of aircraft and helicopters and thousands of cruise missiles and drones.
Russia is seeking to use Iranian proxies to confront the West.
As many as 140 combat engagements occurred on the front lines in Ukraine in the past 24 hours, with the fiercest fighting taking place in the Pokrovsk sector. Russian forces were also active on the Toretsk and Kupiansk axes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Ukraine's Air Force Day thanked the defenders of the sky for every downed Russian target and for their efficiency and precision.
Over the past day, Russian troops attacked 17 settlements in the Kherson region, injuring 15 civilians, including a child.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to August 4, 2024 amount to nearly 582,910 invaders, including another 1,150 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
As of 06:00 on Sunday, August 4, there was one Russian Kalibr cruise missile carrier in the Black Sea, with a total salvo of nearly four missiles.
The forces and means of the mobile firing groups of the Defense Forces and EW units of the Air Force of Ukraine shot down five enemy Shahed-131/136 UAVs in the Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad and Zaporizhzhia regions.
03 August 2024
Every strike that destroys Russian bases and logistics and makes it more difficult for the invaders to stay on Ukrainian territory brings the just end to the war closer.
A non-government monitoring group has released a satellite image showing the site of the presumed Ukrainian strike targeting the Russian Rostov-on-Don submarine in occupied Sevastopol.
Ukraine's defense forces have struck the Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine Rostov-on-Don in the port of Sevastopol.
Russian forces launched a second attack on the city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, on August 3, killing at least one person and injuring two more.
We need a hub to facilitate our defense-industrial capability development
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, water crisis may unfold as early as this fall if dry weather prevails. First of all, it will affect residents of Simferopol and the central part of Crimea.
In the operational zone of Operational Command South, Ukrainian units in the past day repelled two Russian assaults in the Orikhiv axis and another six – near Krynky on the left bank of the Dnipro.
Romania, following in the footsteps of other European nations, plans to produce weapons in cooperation with Ukraine, focusing on the R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles.
One person was killed and nine others injured in enemy shelling of the Kharkiv region on Friday, August 2.
Some 123 combat engagements were recorded on the front lines in Ukraine on August 2, including 36 in the Pokrovsk sector.
A Russian Kalibr cruise missiles with a total salvo of up to four missiles has been deployed on combat duty in the Black Sea as of Saturday morning.
Russia’s total combat casualties since the invasion have amounted to an estimated 581,760, including 1,170 killed and wounded in the past day.
Ukraine’s air defense forces intercepted 24 of the 29 Russian kamikaze drones launched from Russia’s Primorsk-Akhtarsk and Kursk regions, as well as the occupied Crimean peninsula.
The Kharkiv region will implement reconstruction projects and strengthen defense capabilities together with German partners.
02 August 2024
Four S-400 air defense launchers were destroyed during an overnight missile attack on Russia-occupied Crimea on August 2.
Four S-400 air defense launchers were destroyed during an overnight missile attack on Russia-occupied Crimea on August 2.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, explosions occurred in several areas on the night of 2 August. The sounds of explosions were heard in Saki, Yevpatoria and Simferopol, the loudest were in Sevastopol and Balaklava.