Before midnight, explosions occurred on the Dnieper
It was previously reported that kamikaze drones were heading towards the city.
In the evening, an air alert was announced in Kiev and the Kiev region
The alarm was raised due to the threat of a kamikaze drone attack.
Public transport in Lipetsk has been suspended
The information was provided by the regional governor Igor Artamonov. Companies operating in the city must also suspend work until further notice.
SBU identifies two Russian soldiers suspected of torture
The two suspects are the commander of the 175th Independent Reconnaissance Battalion of the 76th Airborne Division of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Suvorov, and his deputy, Captain Aslan Kaskulov. In the early days of the war, they were to take part in the fighting in the Kyiv Oblast. In Bucha, on March 6, 2022, soldiers under their command detained the vice-rector of the National Security Service Academy, Colonel Oleksiy Telizhenko. They took the SBU colonel to a command post in the forest, where he was tied to a tree and tortured for many hours. Colonel Telizhenko died of his injuries.
Massive drone attack in Lipetsk
The governor of the Lipetsk region, Igor Artamonov, announced the attack. As a result of the attack, an energy infrastructure facility was damaged. As a result of the damage, power outages occurred in the Lipetsk Oblast. In connection with the attack and “elimination of the consequences of the detonation of explosives”, a state of emergency was introduced in the Lipetsk region. The authorities decided to evacuate four cities.
At night, Ukrainians attacked occupied Sevastopol
The head of the occupation authorities, Mikhail Razvozaev, wrote on Telegram about the destruction of two unmanned boats near Sevastopol, as well as the destruction of the Neptun anti-ship missile in the Black Sea near the city.
29 drones were shot down in the Belgorod region at night
The governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reports a “massive drone attack” in the region. According to the information he provided, no one was injured in the attack. As a result of the attack in the city of Novy Oskol, a building on the premises of an industrial enterprise caught fire.
Russian attack aircraft attacked Ukrainian units in the border area of Kursk Oblast
This information is provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The attack on Ukrainian units would be carried out by Su-25 aircraft.
The Ukrainians transferred the fighting to Russia.
Fighting between Russian forces and Ukrainian units that have entered Russia’s Kursk Oblast has continued since August 6. “We have basically lost the council. And this is an important logistics hub,” popular military blogger Yuri Podolak was quoted as saying by Reuters, adding that Ukrainian forces were advancing further north towards the city of Lgov. “In general, the situation is difficult and constantly deteriorating, although the pace of the Ukrainian offensive has clearly slowed down,” he added.
Fighting in Kursk Oblast
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This was the situation at the front on the 897th day of the war:
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Yesterday’s report on events in Ukraine can be found here:
Russia’s war with Ukraine. Day 897
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the evening, the Russians shot down seven Ukrainian missiles over the Kursk region.
