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With rescue efforts ongoing, the number of victims in yesterday's Russian bombing of Kharkiv continues to climb.

22 children are among the 97 victims.

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Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi revealed for the first time that 594 Russian servicemen have been taken prisoner in the Kursk direction. He also stated that the Defense Forces currently control 1,295 square kilometers of Russian territory and about a hundred settlements. He made these remarks at the "Ukraine 2024" forum.

Additionally, he mentioned that Russia is not withdrawing troops from Ukrainian Pokrovsk due to the Kursk operation but is instead focusing its efforts there. Russia has transferred around 30,000 troops from reserves and other areas to reinforce the Kursk direction.

From "The Analyst":

THE WAR COMES HOME TO RUSSIA

The stark realisation that Ukraine is reaching a level of strategic warfare capabilities beyond anything Russia has experienced since 1945, is coming home to roost.
Despite the threats of the nuclear age Cold War it never actually happened. Not at any time was Russia forced to defend its skies from missiles or bombers targeting its factories and military installations.
Now in 2024, the three day war to end Ukraine has gone so hideously wrong as it closes in on its 1000th.
Moscow authorities mounted a conference to discuss the air defence of military factories, power stations, airports and air fields around Moscow and St Petersburg. They examined civil defence preparedness and announced that open air meetings and displays by school children should be stopped indefinitely.
As Ukraine’s jet powered, rocket powered and propeller powered drones gain increasing range and lethality Moscow itself is waking up to the realisation it will be the target. Its air defences are far from perfect and they struggle to shoot down even single drones. They know, that sooner rather than later, Ukrainian drones and missiles are coming their way, as sure as the sun rises.
The one sided war where Russia used its missiles and Iranian designed drones to terrify Ukraine is now entering act two: whatever you can do to us, we can now do to you.
Ukraine will not hit shopping malls or schools or blow up maternity centres and hospitals. It will hit missile factories and design bureaus, electronics plants and fuel storage sites. It will find command bunkers and communications facilities. And it will make Russians realise that the special military operation has become the war they are too afraid to call it. And nobody will be in the least bit sympathetic to them. Putin dragged you into this. Now you have to live with the consequences.

Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi revealed for the first time that 594 Russian servicemen have been taken prisoner in the Kursk direction. He also stated that the Defense Forces currently control 1,295 square kilometers of Russian territory and about a hundred settlements. He made these remarks at the "Ukraine 2024" forum.

Additionally, he mentioned that Russia is not withdrawing troops from Ukrainian Pokrovsk due to the Kursk operation but is instead focusing its efforts there. Russia has transferred around 30,000 troops from reserves and other areas to reinforce the Kursk direction.

Ukrainian Defense Forces down new russian reconnaissance drone

According to Militarnyi, a video of the downing was posted by Ukrainian volunteer and blogger Serhii Sternenko. The footage shows a Ukrainian FPV drone intercepting a new type of russian drone.

Upon closer inspection, the drone can be identified as a new development by the russian company ZALA Aero.

The first drones of the new ZALA Z-20 type were demonstrated to the public in 2023, and they are now being actively used by the enemy in the sky over Ukraine.

According to the manufacturer’s official information, the drone is capable of flying at a distance of over 100 km and staying in the air for over 6 hours in patrol mode. With a maximum weight of 18 kg, the drone is equipped with an HD camera, which allows for the detection and identification of targets over long distances. The drone can be used by the enemy to help Lancets in targeting.

In the photo can be seen the moment of interception of the russian reconnaissance drone Zala Z-20 by the Ukrainian FPV-Drone (Photo credits: Sternenko).

Russian military personnel from the private military company "Bears," who were stationed in Burkina Faso, will be deployed to Kursk region to counter the Ukrainian advance — Le Monde. @ukrainejournal

‼️Breaking!
LAVROV DEAD?

According to several sources now, russian foreign minister and excuse generating machine Sergei Lavrov is actually dead.
Nothing official yet but a lot of unofficial channels reporting it.

We'll keep you posted!

@ukrainejournal

⚡️SBU charges 3 Russian officials accused of organizing torture of civilians in Berdiansk.

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) charged in absentia three Russian officials with charges related to organizing the round up and torture of civilians in occupied Berdiansk in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the agency announced on Aug. 29.

⚡️ Russian crime at Ilovaisk in 2014 won't go unpunished, Zelensky says on Defenders Remembrance Day.

The "planned, cynical Russian war crime" during the battle of Ilovaisk in 2014 "will never (be allowed) to go unpunished," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the day of commemoration of fallen Ukrainian defenders on Aug. 29.

Russian forces and their proxies massacred over 360 Ukrainian soldiers as they were retreating through an agreed-upon corridor from the besieged city of Ilovaisk in Donetsk Oblast in August 2014.

⚡Russian journalist sentenced to 8 years in prison for publishing stories about Bucha massacre.

Sergei Mikhailov, the publisher of the independent newspaper Listok in Russia's Altai Republic, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Aug. 30 for "spreading fakes" about the Russian Army.

RAYTHEON fined 200 million dollars

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/american-raytheon-fined-for-exports-to-russia/

LOOTERS

💩 A nation of hobos. The Russian "singer" Chicherina, one of the instigators of war, was given a Chanel bag stolen from Ukrainian residents as a war trophy by looters from Putin's army

🤩  New explosions have occurred at the Atlas oil depot in the Rostov region, according to Russian media

The fire is visible from tens of kilometers away

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/kamala-harris-just-gave-us-our-answer-about-florida/57957/

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/gwen-walz-slam-dunks-donald-trump-and-jd-vance/57959/

🇧🇾 👀 Belarusian aircraft shot at stray Russian drone for first time, — monitoring group says

A Belarusian fighter jet attempted to down a Russian Shahed-type drone that flew into Belarus' airspace during an attack on Ukraine, Belarusian Hajun said

This is probably the first recorded case when a fighter jet of the Belarusian Air Force attempted to destroy a real military target in the sky

🟡🔥 The fire at the oil depot near Kamensk is repeating the situation in Proletarsk. There is not enough foam, the fire cannot be stopped. It will blaze until all the tanks burn out. The municipality has introduced a high alert regime, — local media

⚡️🚀  A russian "Zoopark-M1" counter-battery radar was destroyed in the Zaporizhzhia direction with the help of M142 Himars

The cost of the radar is more than $10 million

🐘 🇳🇱 Ukraine can use the F-16s provided by the Netherlands as it wishes, our country does not impose any restrictions on their use, — General of the Royal Netherlands Air Force Onno Eichelsheim

Please build a thousand.

🔵🚀🇺🇦 The radius of the new Ukrainian ballistic missile is 600-700 km, — adviser to the head of the Presidential Office Podolyak

That is, it can reach Moscow