Ukraine – 8/1/2023 Sitrep
By: Bohdan Chomiak & Robert Homans
August 1, 2023
Breaking the Blockade
According to the latest news, 6 ships have broken the Russian blockade and reached Ukrainian grain ports on the Danube. NATO aircraft were flying above the ships, including the U.S. Navy’s P-8 “Poseidon” anti-submarine plane. The Poseidon is capable of launching the MK-52 torpedo, that has the advantage of keeping Russian submarines at a distance. Most of the cruise missiles fired at Ukraine from the Black Sea have been launched by submarines.
Whether or not the Poseidon was actually carrying torpedoes while looking after the ships bound for the Danube ports is another question. Romanian F-16s are also available.
The Danube ports have 5 advantages:
· They’re 100 miles closer than Odesa, limiting exposure to Russian attacks.
· Ships can sail closer to, or in, the territorial waters of Bulgaria and Romania, both NATO members
· Their route puts them in proximity to Snake Island, Ukrainian territory.
· Russians may have sown mines near the entrance to the Port of Odesa, whereas it’s impossible for them to do so around the Danube ports because of their proximity to Romanian territory.
· Because of their proximity to Romania and Bulgaria, they are closer to NATO airbases.
Ukraine also has the Neptune anti-ship missile, that sank the “Moskva,” Flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, and Harpoon anti-ship missiles that can help keep Russian surface ships out of the western part of the Black Sea. Finally, Ukraine has the seaborne drones with a range of several hundred miles. These have been used, both against Russian surface ships and to heavily damage the Kerch Bridge.
This is good news for Ukraine, and Ukraine’s customers, especially those in the Middle East and Africa.
From Bohdan
Hunger is suffering, malnutrition is crippling or deadly.
The spike in global wheat prices after the global financial crisis spread a wave of hunger across Arab states. In 2011 the hungry revolted blaming their leaders triggering the Arab Spring.
This was the first mass wave of hungry refugees to the EU. The second wave catalyzed by russia’s brutal destruction of Syrian civilians almost culminated in extreme right-wing domination of the EU.
During the Arab Spring russia sided with Arab autocrats blaming the United States specifically, and the western capitalism in general, for food prices and crises. Russia’s destruction of Syria further strengthened its appeal by sending Wagner to prop up African autocrats and watched with pleasure as the EU sought to control the refugee crisis.
After Syria, Putler took for granted he had strong support across most of Arabia and Africa. He also took for granted several other things – Europe and America are divided; Europe could not live without his energy resources; China was ready to back him; and that he was unpunishable.
After all, when the president of the USA regularly says things such as, “"Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine -- Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful."
Buoyed by the surety of belief Putler even believed that 120,000 soldiers can subdue a nation of 40 million. To accomplish this seemingly impossible task he sends a ten thousand to take Kharkiv – a city close to a million, and many more to take Kyiv a city of 4 million. Neither force makes it to the city, and he loses a few armies.
The reality is that Africa and countries in the Middle East were not allies. In words of Lord Palmerston, “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.”
Putler’s weaponization of food and fuel, and his disregard for other’s interests isolated russia.
Last week when he offered to give away 25,000 tons of wheat to almost 40 African states, while at the same time ordering that Wagner strengthen its African presence, is an overwhelming display of arrogance and racism.
Africa and the Middle East import on average over the last five years 190 million tons of grain annually. The million-ton gift is slightly more than a half percent of imports equally distributed between countries with over 100 million citizens and those with less than five million. The same present for the rich as for the poor.
Concurrently because of his invasion the average price per ton of grain starting with the invasion increased by $145 a ton presenting Africa and Arabia with an annual additional $27 billion in food costs.
His invasion and its impact on energy cost and price stability has wreaked even greater damage in the region.
I was not at all surprised that Cyril Ramaphosa withdrew his invitation for Putler to attend the BRICs meeting and publicly told him to restore the grain corridor. It is also not surprising that Saudi Arabia is convening a 30-nation peace conference based on Ukraine’s 10-point peace plan this week.
When your “allies” tell you to wake up and smell the coffee, and you don’t, then get ready for a very, very long and unpleasant Monday morning.
The Price of Dithering
Yesterday, the Washington Post published an excellent analysis on the timing of U.S. military assistance, relative to the buildup of Russian defenses in the South. In the months between Ukraine’s first requests of many of the weapon systems that Ukraine is now using and today, the Russians were able to build up the defenses that Ukraine is now laboring to breach.
At the same time, many of the Western pundits are now saying that the slow progress of Ukraine’s counteroffensive can be blamed on its lack of training in combined arms warfare. Others have pointed out that it is hard to conduct combined arms warfare without one of the key elements – air power. Rather than blaming lack of training of the Ukrainian Army, perhaps it is more realistic for the pundits to direct their attention to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, to that big building across the Potomac River and, to a lesser extent, to another big building, the one in Langley, Va.
The War in 12 Charts/Washington Post & Brookings
Some takeaways:
· The respective central banks of Russian and Ukraine have played critical roles in financing the war and keeping down inflation. The accomplishments of the Russian Central Bank have been well-documented. As the graphs show the National Bank of Ukraine, along with major Western assistance, has been able to finance the war without printing money, resulting in the recent decrease in inflation.
· Europe has provided more assistance to Ukraine than the U.S., especially in financial and humanitarian aid, and has provided almost as much military aid.
· Ukraine is beginning to undermine Russian support coming from Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
This information is from a report prepared by Maria Lvova Belova, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights who, along with Putin, is now under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. In a prior life, Lvova Belova was Commissioner For Children’s Rights under Nazi Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler.
The Ukrainian Project “Children at War,” reported that approximately 19,500 Ukrainian children have been forcibly abducted by Russia, with only a few hundred being returned. One of the lucky children has been “adopted” by Lvova Belova herself.
News From the Battlefield
“Reporting From Ukraine” believes that a recent Ukrainian advance of approximately 5km. can be traced to a combination of the effects on Russian supplies of artillery of the Ukrainian destruction of the Chonhar Bridge, the railroad bridge connecting southern Ukraine and Crimea, and superior Ukrainian tactics that kept the Russians off balance.
8/1/2023 Sitrep
Russian Invasion of Ukraine 12:00 noon July 31 to 12:00 noon August 1, 2023
Abbreviations:
RMA = Regional Military Administration RASHISTS = russian Facists/all russian invaders
INTERNATIONAL
Tuesday, August 1
8:03 am: China and the United Arab Emirates will hold joint air force exercises for the first time in August, China's Ministry of Defense said.
8:03 am: States have confirmed their intention to strengthen the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This is stated in the official statement of the spokesperson of the US State Department.
8:03 am: The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack in Pakistan that killed 54 people the day before, Associated Press.
10:36 am Financial Times: The US concluded an agreement with Bulgaria and South Korea on the supply of 155-mm ammunition to Ukraine and is negotiating with Japan.
● Now Ukraine fires up to 8,000 artillery shots per day.
Monday, July 31
6:54 pm: Ukraine received another $1.25 billion grant from the United States.
● This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.
● "The involved grant funding will be aimed at reimbursing state budget expenses, in particular, at the wages of employees of state bodies and payments [...] (IDPs, persons with disabilities, low-income families, payments of housing and communal subsidies)," the Ministry of Finance notes.
7:46 pm: The Israeli ship was the first to break through the "grain blockade" of the Russian Federation, — mass media.
● "Today, the ship Ams1, spitting on Russian threats, entered the Ukrainian branch of the Danube," the message reads.
● The publication reports that four more vessels are following it "which have either anchored or will anchor in the near future on the Danube."
● The US P8 anti-ship aircraft is known to provide security, while the Forte12 RQ-4 reconnaissance drone provides additional information.
8:49 pm: Croatia will help export Ukrainian grain through its ports.
● This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, at a briefing.
● "Now we will work on laying the most efficient routes to these ports and making the most of this opportunity," Kuleba said.
10:20 pm: China to introduce export controls on some drones and related equipment.
● This was reported by Reuters with reference to the statement of the Ministry of Commerce of China.
● Reuters writes that the relevant step is taking place against the background of escalating tensions in relations with the United States over access to technology.
10:35 pm: Volodymyr Zelenskyi may go to New York for the UN General Assembly, - Bloomberg.
● As the newspaper reports, the head of the Ukrainian state is justifying his "peace formula" initiative there. The meeting the president wants to attend will take place in September.
10:54 pm: Moldova has ratified the agreement on the construction of the Yampil Bridge across the Dniester, Moldova's Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spinu said.
● "Parliament approved the agreement between Moldova and Ukraine on the construction of a road bridge across the Dniester River in the area of the cities of Koseut-Yampil. Together with Ukraine, we plan to build the bridge by the end of 2025," he wrote.
● According to the Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development, the cost of the project is approximately EUR 60 million.
11:35 pm: The Government of Croatia today at a meeting donated 1 million euros to the World Food Program of the United Nations to help farmers and food producers from Ukraine to resume work in the regions most affected by explosive remnants of war.
● It is reported that the work is already underway in the Kharkiv region and is planned to be carried out in the Mykolaiv region and the Kherson region.
11:54 pm: The US will supply Abrams tanks to the Armed Forces, but instead of the M1A2 modification, the Ukrainians will receive the M1A1, writes Newsweek.
● It is noted that they weigh less and have the least modern electronics. Tanks of this model are also devoid of depleted uranium armor. This decision was made in order to train the crews as soon as possible and transfer the tanks to the front.
● The equipment will first be sent to Germany for repair. The Armed Forces will be able to receive it no earlier than September, the publication writes.
NATIONAL
Tuesday, August 1
4:01 am: Observed enemy tactical aircraft activity in the southeast direction. There is a threat of using aviation weapons, - the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
7:45 am: The aviation of the defense forces over the past day struck 7 strikes on enemy personnel concentration areas and 3 strikes on Russian anti-aircraft missile systems, General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
● During the day, units of missile forces and artillery struck 5 enemy anti-aircraft missile complexes, a heavy flamethrower system of volley fire TOS-1A "Solntsepok", 5 artillery pieces in firing positions, 2 electronic warfare stations, an ammunition warehouse and 5 personnel concentration areas.
11:08 am: The spokesman of the Air Force Command Yuriy Ignat noted that the Russian military, unlike the Ukrainian military, does not know how to shoot down drones that attack the capital of the Russian Federation.
● "Ukrainian soldiers have a certain experience, not only the Air Force, but all the Defense Forces have the experience of shooting down (UAVs - ed.). The Russian military cannot cope with those UAVs, which somewhere over there are flying towards them for the first time. Well, we hope, they will not have experience (beating - ed.)," Ignat added.
11:37 am: Attention! Missile danger throughout the territory of Ukraine! - Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:38 am: The takeoff of the MiG-31K was recorded, - Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Monday, July 31
12:31 pm: Preliminarily, sabotage or attempts on the lives of the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the case of the helicopter crash in the Kyiv region have not been confirmed, — Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin.
● The results of the pretrial investigation will be made public soon.
12:52 pm: Attention! The threat of using ballistic weapons in areas where the alarm has been declared! Don't Ignore Airborne Alarms! - Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
1:21 pm: Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Hrlich Radman arrived on a visit to Ukraine. He announced this on Twitter.
● "I started my visit to Ukraine in Gostomel. In partnership with UNICEF-Croatia, the Croatian government purchased 50 generators for schools and hospitals throughout the country, including the Veselka kindergarten," he wrote.
2:16 pm: "Azov" commanders who returned from Turkey will again participate in combat operations as part of the National Guard.
● This was stated by the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine Oleksandr Pivnenko.
2:43 pm: Attention! The activity of Russian tactical aviation in the south-eastern direction! Don't Ignore Airborne Alarms! - Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
4:55 pm: People's deputy from "Servant of the People" Andriy Kholodov wrote a statement on drawing up a mandate, said the speaker of the parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk.
● This happened after journalists published an investigation into Kholodov's vacation in Cyprus.
5:52 pm: The threat of using ballistic weapons in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy and Zaporizhia regions, where an alert has been declared, — the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
6:29 pm: A service center for the repair and maintenance of drones will be built in Ukraine, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports.
● "The document on its construction was concluded today between the Ministry of Defense and the Turkish company BAYKAR MAKINA," the message reads.
7:12 pm: People's deputy Andrii Kholodov has been expelled from the "Servant of the People" party, the head of the party Olena Shulyak reports.
● "We exclude from the party those who undermined the interests of the state, we deprive such persons of positions in the cells," Shulyak emphasized.
8:01 pm Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 on July 31:
● "During the day, the enemy carried out 9 missile and 39 air strikes, carried out 35 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
● Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded among the civilian population, in particular, children. Residential buildings and other civil infrastructure were destroyed.
● Also, about 30 combat clashes took place during the day."
● "Russian occupiers continue to use civilian infrastructure on the territory of temporarily occupied settlements.
● Thus, in the premises of the miners' prevention center in Nizhny Nagolchyk, Luhansk region, the enemy placed about 100 Russian servicemen.
● More than 100 occupiers are housed in the buildings of the educational institution in the village of Semikozivka, Luhansk region."
● "During the day, the aviation of the defense forces made 7 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the enemy and 3 - on the enemy's anti-aircraft missile complexes.
● During the day, units of missile troops and artillery hit 2 enemy anti-aircraft missile systems, a heavy flamethrower system of salvo fire TOS-1A "Solntsepok", an artillery device in a firing position and 4 areas of concentration of enemy personnel.
9:31 pm: Ukraine received 508 powerful Tesla Powerwall batteries, Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov reports.
● "Thanks to them, doctors will save lives, teachers will conduct lessons, and Ukrainians will stay in touch with uninterrupted work of Starlink in individual locations," Fedorov notes.
● Tesla Powerwalls are charged from ordinary electricity and hold a charge for up to 14 hours.
10:05 pm: The Security Service eliminated 3 new escape channels for "evaders" abroad, the SBU press service reports.
● "As a result of complex measures in different regions of Ukraine, four organizers of illegal "trafficking" were detained," the message reads.
● SBU counter-intelligence agents exposed the perpetrators in the Lviv and Rivne regions, as well as in Kyiv. All were notified of the suspicion, they face up to 9 years with confiscation of property.
MORDOR - RUZZIA
Tuesday, August 1
12:20 am: Russia Spreads Propaganda in Video Games and Platforms Popular with Gamers, - The New York Times.
● The publication says that researchers have found more than a dozen examples of Russian messages being promoted in Minecraft, Roblox, World of Tanks and World of Warships, Fly Corp, Armored Warfare and War Thunder.
● So, in Minecraft, the battle for Soledar, captured by the Russian army, was recreated. In World of Tanks, the Victory Parade of 1945 was recreated, and in Roblox - the "forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs" in the form of Lego men in the uniform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs marched on Russia Day, the newspaper notes.
12:44 am: In the suburbs of Moscow, two pensioners set fire to a military commissary. Both were detained, rosZMI reports.
● It is also reported that in St. Petersburg, a man threw two bottles of hot mixture at the door of the Military Commissariat, and then got into a car and started ramming the gate into the yard.
4:05 am: A drone attacked the capital center "Moscow City" again - rosZMI.
● Smoke is visible near one of the towers. Video from social networks.
4:28 am: Several drones were shot down by anti-aircraft fire while attempting to fly to Moscow. One flew to the same tower in the City as last time. The facade on the 17th floor was damaged. The glazing of 150 square meters was broken. Emergency services are working at the scene, - Moscow Mayor Serhii Sobyanin.
4:31 am: There were no casualties after the drone hit the tower in "IQ-Quarter" in "Moscow-City", according to emergency services of Moscow.
4:36 am: Vnukovo airport operations are temporarily suspended, planes are diverted to other airports, Moscow emergency services.
● Moscow Mayor Sobyanin clarified that the damage was done to the facade on the 21st floor, not the 17th.
4:42 am: The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation is located on the 21st floor of the IQ-Quarter "Moscow-City" tower, which was attacked by a drone today, - rosZMI.
5:01 am: In the suburbs of Moscow, air defense shot down a drone, emergency services.
● The video captured the moment of the explosion in Odintsovo, Moscow Region.
6:23 am: The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that allegedly Ukrainian UAVs tried to attack objects in Moscow.
● Two unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defense systems in the Odintsovsky and Narofominsky districts of the Moscow suburbs. Another unmanned aerial vehicle, allegedly "contained by means of radio-electronic warfare", fell on the territory of "Moscow City", the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.
10:02 am: At night, an attack was carried out on a ship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
● It is claimed that the ships "Sergiy Kotov" and "Vasyl Bykov", which were performing navigation control tasks 340 km southwest of Sevastopol, were attacked by three unmanned boats.
● According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, three unmanned boats were destroyed.
10:41 am: Blocked raid in Sevastopol Bay. Passengers of boats and ferries are being transferred to buses, rosZMI reports.
Monday, July 31
3:59 pm: In the occupied territories of Ukraine, Russia forcibly mobilized about 60,000 men, - representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andrii Chernyak.
● "This is a violent mobilization: the occupiers caught people on the street, they came to the few businesses that were still working and forcibly took people away - they simply changed clothes and sent them to the front. They promised that they would be on the second or third line, but in fact people ended up on the front line," said Andriy Chernyak.
● It was also reported that Russia is also sending students from the occupied Ukrainian territories to the occupation army.
6:10 pm Social Networks: Explosions are heard in the temporarily occupied Simferopol.
6:41 pm: the Russian Federation destroyed 180,000 tons of Ukrainian grain in the first nine days after leaving the "grain agreement".
● This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on Twitter.
● The Russians also damaged 26 objects of the port infrastructure of Ukraine and 5 civilian vessels.
7:25 pm: Satellite images of the aftermath of the Chongar Bridge attack (comparison of July 24 and July 30).
● This footage was released by OSINT researcher Hidenori Watanave.
11:15 pm: Putin will not last 10 years, he will die, Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in an interview with Globo.
● "Putin will not live for so many years. At the rate at which he is fighting with us, he did not fight in Syria. And although there is terrible suffering and destruction, this is a different war. He will not last, he will die - that is absolutely clear," he said President of Ukraine.
REGIONS
KYIV
Monday, July 31
2:56 pm: Vitaliy Klitschko announced the transfer of 11 specialized cars for the transportation of people with disabilities to the Kyiv City Territorial Center of Social Services.
● Cars are equipped with the necessary mechanisms and special places for the comfortable transportation of people with disabilities.
● "The demand for special vehicles is constantly growing. In particular, due to the increase in the number of servicemen who became disabled during the defense of Ukraine," the message reads.
CHERNIHIV
Tuesday, August 1
9:28 am: This night in Chernihiv Oblast, border guards stopped an attempt by a sabotage and reconnaissance group of Russians to cross the state border of Ukraine, - the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Igor Klymenko.
● They immediately opened fire on the saboteurs. And under the influence of fire from the border guards, the Russians retreated.
KHARKIV
Tuesday, August 1
12:09 am Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Kharkiv.
12:12 am: Russians attack Kharkiv with drones. Explosions are heard in the Shevchenkiv district. Already three, - the mayor of the city Ihor Terekhov.
12:15 am Kharkiv RMA: the Russians are attacking not only the city, but also the region.
12:23 am: In Kharkiv after the explosions, power outages are observed, water has partially disappeared, - "Suspilne".
12:55 am Kharkiv RMA: Russians struck Kharkiv with kamikaze drones.
● A fire broke out at the point of impact, all emergency services are working. There was no information about the victims.
5:54 am: In the regional prosecutor's office of the Kharkiv region, the consequences of the night attack by the Russians on Kharkiv were shown.
● Spokesman Dmytro Chubenko reported on the damage to the building of an educational institution in Saltivskyi district and one of the sports facilities in Shevchenkivskyi district. The security guard of the sports facility was injured and was hospitalized.
7:13 am: "Suspilny" correspondents showed a photo of the consequences of the Russian attack on Kharkiv.
● About half of the three-story building of the vocational school was destroyed - two floors of the central building collapsed.
8:51 am Kharkiv RMA: Around midnight, the Russians struck Kharkiv with Shahed drones. They hit a three-story building of an educational institution in the Saltiv district. 2 floors were destroyed, there was a fire. No casualties.
● Three more "arrivals" were recorded on the territory of the sports complex in the Shevchenkiv district. A damaged two-story building. A 63-year-old security guard was injured and hospitalized.
● During the day, the Russians shelled the populated areas of Chuguyiv, Bogoduhiv, Kharkiv, Izyum and Kupyan districts.
Monday, July 31
1:06 pm Kharkiv RMA: Russians struck Shiykivka. As a result, a 74-year-old civilian was killed, a 53-year-old woman and a 76-year-old man were injured, and a private residential building was damaged.
● In addition, in Vovchansk, as a result of shelling, an 84-year-old man was wounded, and 4 residential buildings were damaged. In Timofiivka, the Russians dropped two grenades from a UAV. Two fences were damaged, no one was injured.
3:00 pm Social Networks: Explosions are heard in the Kupyan district of the Kharkiv region.
9:03 pm: The SBU detained a collaborator from Kupyansk who wanted to export 700 tons of grain to the Russian Federation.
● "After the temporary capture of the city, he (collaborator - ed.) went over to the side of the enemy and joined the occupation "police", - writes the press service of the SBU.
● According to the materials of the Ukrainian special service, the court found the intruder guilty under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
11:22 pm: There is a threat of using ballistic weapons in the Kharkiv region, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reports.
DONETSK
Tuesday, August 1
12:42 am Social Networks: Explosions are heard in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region
11:20 am Donetsk RMA: Under fire Ugledar and Blagodatne — no victims.
● The Russians also shelled Zoryan, Avdiyivka, Krasnohorivka, Georgiyivka, Solovyov, Aleksandro-Kalynov, Chasovoyarsk hromad, New York, Toretsk, Zvanivka, Pereizne and Lymansk hromad.
● In just one day, the Russians killed 2 residents of Donetsk region and wounded 3 more.
Monday, July 31
3:27 pm Donetsk RMA: The day before, the Russians launched a missile attack on Kramatorsk: they damaged the administrative building and the enterprise.
● Vugledar, Perechistivka, Maksimivka, Vesele, Krasnohorivka, Kurakhivska and Ocheretynska communities, Avdiivka, Predtechine, Kostyantynivka, Chasovoyarsk community, Toretsk, New York, Yampol, Pereizne were also under fire.
● the Russians killed 1 resident of Donetsk region, another 7 people were injured during the day.
5:44 pm Donetsk RMA: In the morning, the Russians dropped FAB-500 aerial bombs on the city of New York.
● "Thanks to the fact that the vast majority of the population left there, such a devastating blow was spared without victims," Kyrylenko wrote
ZAPORIZHIA
Tuesday, August 1
10:52 am Zaporizhia RMA: Over the past day, the Russians carried out 86 shellings on 24 communities of the Zaporizhia region, - head of the OVA, Yuriy Malashko.
● 45 reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities. No casualties.
Monday, July 31
3:44 pm: The SBU detained an informatics teacher at a local higher professional school who was "working" as a proofreader for Russians in Zaporizhzhia
● To collect intelligence, the person involved set up an "observation point" in his own dacha near the southern front.
● In addition, the intruder on a bicycle traveled around the neighboring cottage cooperatives and the surrounding area, where he recorded the movement routes of Ukrainian military equipment. He faces up to 12 years in prison.
4:40 pm Zaporizhia RMA: 78 strikes on 20 settlements in the Zaporizhia region,
● As a result of Russian shelling, a wounded 48-year-old resident of Mala Tokmachka was hospitalized. 9 reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities.
DNIPRO
Tuesday, August 1
8:22 am: In Kryvyi Rih today, mourning for those who died as a result of the July 31 rocket attack was announced, - head of the Defense Council Oleksandr Vilkul.
● According to OVA, 6 people died, including a 10-year-old girl. More than 80 civilians were injured. 19 wounded, including two children, are in hospitals.
Monday, July 31
12:10 pm: The body of a dead woman was just recovered from the rubble in Kryvyi Rih, local channels report.
12:47 pm: Already 4 dead in Kryvyi Rih. Among them is a 10-year-old child, Serhii Lysak, head of Dnipropetrovsk OVA.
● There may be people under the rubble. Also, emergency workers have already rescued four people. One of them is a child.
1:49 pm: A collapse occurred in a 9-story building in Kryvyi Rih that was destroyed by a Russian missile. No one was injured, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
● The law enforcement officers urged to stay away from the place where the rescue work is being carried out, because in addition to the possible repeated shelling, the collapse of the building or an explosion may happen.
2:01 pm: The number of injured in Kryvyi Rih has increased to 53 people, including three children. Four people are in serious condition - Serhiy Lysak, head of Dnipropetrovsk OVA.
● So far, it is known about four dead people - they are two men, a woman and her 10-year-old child.
4:46 pm Dnipro RMA: Five dead, including a child.
● It is already known about 64 victims. Of them - two boys and three girls. From 4 to 17 years.
● Most of the wounded will be treated at home. But more than 20 remain in hospitals.
5:16 pm President of Ukraine: In Kryvyi Rih, the rescue operation continues at the place where the Russian missiles hit.
● "Preliminarily, two ballistic missiles. The floors of the residential building from the fourth to the ninth were completely destroyed," the president reported.
5:29 pm: The number of injured as a result of the Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih has increased to 73, including 8 children.
● Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Defense Council of Kryvyi Rih, reports this.
● "Tomorrow in Kryvyi Rih a day of mourning has been announced," Vilkul noted.
6:01 pm Dnipro RMA: The number of dead as a result of the Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih has increased to 6 people, 75 people were injured.
● "Of the 22 hospitalized, two are seriously ill," Lysak writes.
7:39 pm: The search and rescue operation in Kryvyi Rih has been completed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reports.
● "As a result of the Russian shelling, 6 people died and 75 were injured. 3 people were rescued, including a 10-year-old child," the report says.
KHERSON
Tuesday, August 1
10:17 am Kherson RMA: Over the past day, the Russians carried out 51 shellings, firing 260 shells from mortars, artillery, Grads, UAVs and aircraft. 61 projectiles were fired in the city of Kherson, - head of the OVA Oleksandr Prokudin.
● They aimed at the residential quarters of the settlements of the region; an administrative building and an educational institution in the Kherson district; the territory of the enterprise in Beryslav district. Four people died, another 18 were injured, one of them was a child.
11:25 am Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Kherson.
11:53 am: Today at 11:10 the Russians shelled the Kherson community, a young doctor died - the head of the Kherson MBA, Roman Mrochko.
● One of the health care facilities was hit. A nurse was also wounded, for whose life doctors are now fighting.
Monday, July 31
1:36 pm Kherson RMA: The Russian army struck the Korabel neighborhood of Kherson,
● A 65-year-old man came under Russian fire in his own car. Doctors declared death.
● A 38-year-old man from Kherson was also injured. He was hospitalized with leg and arm injuries.
2:49 pm Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Kherson and Beryslav.
3:42 pm Social Networks: Explosions are heard again in Kherson.
6:13 pm President's Office: the Russians are shelling the residential quarters of Kherson, so far it is known about 4 dead and 17 wounded.
● "The Korabelny district and the central part of the city were the most affected," the report says.
8:35 pm Kherson RMA: Russians hit residential buildings in Kozatskyi
● "An 80-year-old woman lived in one of the houses hit by a guided aerial bomb.
● Unfortunately, as a result of Russian shelling, she died under the rubble of her own home," RMA writes.
Comparing Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to Russian invasion of Ukraine using Wikipedia and Ukraine Ministry of Defense Daily Bulletins. Soviet and Russian military losses not including captured equipment.
SOURCES
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
https://espreso.tv/
https://cutt.ly/Blyskavka
https://t.me/uawarinfographics
https://t.me/svoboda_radio