A drone shot down in Latvian airspace on August 14th is of Ukrainian origin. This was announced by the Latvian armed forces. An Italian fighter jet stationed in the Baltic States shot down the drone. It entered the airspace of the NATO and EU member state during Ukrainian attacks on Russian ports. The drone was probably blown off course by Russian jamming signals.
After the deadly Russian attacks on Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the country's allies. Zelensky accused Western partner countries of delaying the delivery of anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine and thus endangering human lives.
He again called on allies to increase stocks of Patriot anti-missiles. The Patriot system is the only one in the Ukrainian arsenal that can defeat ballistic missiles. "The stocks of interceptor missiles for Patriot systems have not yet been replenished, and they are needed every day," Zelensky wrote on Telegram. The Russian leadership will not seriously negotiate peace as long as Ukraine cannot defend its cities.
“Every additional (Patriot) rocket saves the lives of our compatriots.”
Volodymyr Zelensky
According to the latest information from Ukrainian authorities, at least 14 people were killed and more than 40 injured in renewed Russian air strikes on the Ukrainian capital overnight. The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia had deployed numerous ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles, as well as almost 170 drones. While around 90 percent of the drones and most of the cruise missiles were intercepted, the faster ballistic missiles all hit and caused severe damage.
The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has lost its last remaining external power line. This was announced by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Emergency diesel generators would have taken over the supply of vital security systems. Initial assessments suggested that the damage occurred on the northern bank of the Dnipro. Due to military activity, technicians were unable to determine the cause of the power outage, according to the IAEA.
Drone debris caused a fire in a factory in the Russian village of Wolfa near the Black Sea port of Taman. According to authorities, there are no injuries. The fire should be put out quickly. The port of Taman, which is often the target of Ukrainian drone attacks, handles, among other things, oil products, grain and coal.
Ukrainian troops have advanced north of the town of Bilyi Kolodjas in the Kharkiv region. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports this in its daily situation report. Russia therefore took over the eastern part of the town of Kivsharivka, southeast of Kupyansk. Apparently, Russia is also preparing an offensive towards the city of Dobropillia in the Donetsk region.
The death toll after the Russian rocket attack on Kyiv has risen to twelve. Another 33 people were injured, according to the Ukrainian civil protection agency. Twelve places in the districts of Darnytskyj, Svyatoshynskyj and Solomyanskyj were affected.
Residential buildings, a medical facility and an educational institution were damaged. In Solomyanskyi, the top two floors of a nine-story apartment building were destroyed and fires broke out on other floors. People were trapped in two residential buildings and a school shelter.
In the large city of Sevastopol in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia, the electricity is switched off again. This is necessary to reduce overload on the power grids outside the region and prevent a widespread outage, Governor Mikhail Razvoshayev said via Telegram.
The United Nations has condemned the exclusion of Russia's only anti-war party, Yabloko, from Russia's parliamentary elections. The office of UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk also expressed "alarm" on Tuesday about the sentencing of Jabloko's deputy chief Lev Schlosberg to eleven years in prison for an "anti-war speech."
At least two people have been killed in a Russian drone strike in northern Ukraine. Russia attacked a national police building in Zhytomyr, the national police said.
According to the government in Moscow, Russia has started importing fuel from abroad. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Nowak said this without mentioning the supplier countries or the quantities imported. The background is the significantly increased number of Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries this year.
Ukraine and Russia each released 103 prisoners of war in another prisoner exchange. Most of the released Ukrainians were wounded or seriously ill, said the responsible Ukrainian coordination office.
The federal government wants to finance a planned repair of the damaged protective shell around the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl, which was damaged in 1986, with 50 million euros. This is necessary "to prevent the release of radioactive material in the long term," said Federal Environment Minister Carsten Schneider during a visit to Chernobyl.
Ukraine appears to have attacked Russian oil facilities in the hinterland. A drone hit an oil refinery in Ufa, said the governor of the Bashkortostan region, Radii Khabirov.
