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Russian forces have struck a coach station within the metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, injuring 19 individuals.

Supply: Ivan Fedorov, Head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Army Administration

Quote: "Early reviews point out that two individuals have been injured in an enemy strike on a transport infrastructure facility."

Particulars: Earlier, Fedorov reported a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, saying that one of many metropolis’s districts was coated in smoke.

The variety of individuals injured within the assault later rose to a few. Medical doctors assess their situation as reasonable.

At 18:52, Fedorov reported that eight individuals had been injured within the strike and one in every of them is in a critical situation.

Medical doctors assess the situation of 4 individuals as reasonable. Search and rescue operations are ongoing.

In a launched video, Fedorov specified that the Russians used guided aerial bombs to hold out two strikes on Zaporizhzhia.

"Rescue staff are clearing the rubble. Early reviews point out that individuals should still be trapped beneath the rubble," he stated.

The second strike hit the college clinic of Zaporizhzhia Medical College. No casualties have been reported there to this point, however the healthcare facility buildings have additionally been broken.

As of 19:19, the variety of individuals injured has risen to 12.

Later, Fedorov clarified that the strike had hit the coach station.

The individuals injured within the assault sustained a number of mine-blast accidents to their limbs, heads and abdomens. At the very least 12 individuals had been injured, together with males aged 24, 38, 39, 41, and 56, and girls aged 25 and 77. Medical doctors assess their situation as reasonable.

As of 19:59, the quantity injured had risen to 19.

Fedorov additionally reported that the bombardment had broken seven condominium blocks and non-residential amenities, shattered home windows and battered roofs within the buildings.

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A lady has died in hospital after sustaining accidents in a Russian missile strike on an condo block within the metropolis of Chernivtsi on 12 July, bringing the entire variety of fatalities to 5.

Supply: Ruslan Zaparaniuk, Head of Chernivtsi Oblast Navy Administration

Quote: "The loss of life toll from the Russian missile strike on a block of flats in Chernivtsi on 12 July has risen to 5. Sadly, right this moment, one other girl, 71-year-old Yaroslava Klypych from Sniatyn, has died from accidents sustained within the enemy assault. She was the spouse of Vasyl Klypych, who was injured alongside her and died in hospital on 16 July."

Background:

• On 12 July, Russia attacked Chernivtsi with missiles and drones, damaging a number of residential buildings, outlets, administrative services and automobiles.
• On 25 July, a lady who had been in a coma after the Russian assault died in hospital, changing into the fourth fatality of the strike.

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz believes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ought to be concerned within the 15 August assembly between US President Donald Trump and Russian chief Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Supply: Merz on TV channel ARD, as reported by European Pravda, citing German TV information service Tagesschau

Particulars: Merz introduced that he’ll communicate by telephone with Trump on Sunday 10 August relating to his deliberate assembly with Putin in Alaska.

Quote: "We’re intensively making ready for this assembly on the European stage along with the US authorities. And we hope and count on that the Ukrainian authorities, President Zelenskyy, will probably be concerned on this assembly…

In any case, we can’t agree that territorial points between Russia and America are mentioned and even determined over the heads of Europeans and Ukrainians."

Particulars: Merz added, "I assume that the US authorities sees it the identical means, which is why there’s such shut coordination".

He stated that what occurs in Alaska on Friday ought to have penalties: "Both within the path of accelerating stress on Russia, or in Russia’s personal recognition that this warfare can’t be continued."

The chancellor stated he hopes that the high-level assembly would additionally result in a call on a ceasefire in Russia’s aggressive warfare towards Ukraine.

Background:

• The Trump-Putin assembly is scheduled to happen in Alaska on 15 August, amid media experiences that Washington and Moscow are supposedly looking for an settlement to halt the warfare in Ukraine that would cement Russia’s occupation of a part of its territory.
• In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that "the reply to the Ukrainian territorial query is already within the Structure of Ukraine".
• On the evening of 9-10 August, a joint assertion addressed to Trump and Putin was launched by the leaders of France, Italy, Germany, Poland, the UK, the president of the European Fee, and the president of Finland.

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The Ukrainian Air Pressure has destroyed a Russian battalion command put up close to town of Oleshky in Kherson Oblast by delivering a precision bomb strike.

Supply: Normal Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Quote: "A high-precision bomb strike by Ukraine’s Air Pressure efficiently hit a battalion command put up of the occupiers within the Oleshky space."

Particulars: Early experiences point out that about 25 Russian troops had been killed and a minimum of 11 injured.

Ukrainian intelligence stated that amongst these killed had been the battalion commander, the chief of workers, the top of the engineering service and a platoon commander.

Background: Ukraine's Normal Employees reported that Ukrainian drones had struck an oil refinery within the Russian metropolis of Saratov on the evening of 9-10 August.

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Ukraine's Normal Employees has confirmed that Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery within the Russian metropolis of Saratov on the night time of 9-10 August.

Supply: Normal Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Particulars: The strikes brought about explosions and a hearth on the facility, the Normal Employees stated.

Quote: "Final night time, the Saratov oil refinery (Saratov Oblast, Russian Federation) was attacked by the Unmanned Programs Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with different parts of the defence forces."

Particulars: The Saratov oil refinery is certainly one of Russia's key gasoline infrastructure amenities, supplying oil merchandise to its forces in Ukraine. Its annual processing capability reaches 7 million tonnes of oil.

The Normal Employees emphasised that the defence forces are persevering with measures aimed toward undermining Russia's army and financial potential so as to power it to cease its aggression in opposition to Ukraine.

Quote: "A simply peace is nearer with each goal struck on the territory of the Russian Federation that’s concerned in its felony struggle in opposition to Ukraine."

Background: On the night time of 9-10 August, drones attacked an oil refinery within the Russian metropolis of Saratov, inflicting an unlimited fireplace on the facility.

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Ukraine's defence forces have liberated the village of Bezsalivka in Sumy Oblast after utterly clearing it of Russian troops.

Supply: Common Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Particulars: The Common Employees reported that items from the thirty third Separate Assault Regiment and the twenty fourth Separate Assault Battalion had taken half within the operation. Through the combating, Ukrainian troops killed 18 Russian troopers.

Bezsalivka is a village in Sumy Oblast’s Bilopillia hromada with a inhabitants of 91 folks. It’s located close to the river Volfa near the Russian border. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town along with their adjacent territories – ed.]

Background:

• On 25 July, it was reported that the 225th Separate Assault Regiment had accomplished a mop-up operation within the village of Kindrativka in Sumy Oblast and consolidated its positions there.
• On 14 June, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine's defence forces are efficiently pushing Russian troops out of the border space of Sumy Oblast, notably liberating the village of Andriivka.

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Russia attacked Ukraine with 100 drones on the evening of 9-10 August, 70 of which have been destroyed by air defence.

Supply: Air Power of Ukraine

Particulars: Preliminary studies point out that Russian forces carried out a large-scale strike on Ukraine on the evening of 9-10 August, launching 100 assault UAVs of the Shahed kind, together with numerous forms of decoy drones. The launches have been carried out from Russian territory (Shatalovo, Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk) and from quickly occupied Crimea (Hvardiiske).

The Air Power reported that Ukrainian plane, anti-aircraft missile items, digital warfare items, cell hearth teams and unmanned methods items of the defence forces have been concerned in repelling the airstrike.

As of 08:00, 70 Russian drones had been confirmed destroyed or suppressed in Ukraine’s north and east.

In the meantime, 30 UAVs struck 12 settlements within the frontline areas of Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv oblasts. Particles from downed drones additionally fell in three different areas.

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A 61-year-old girl was killed within the Stepnohirsk hromada of Zaporizhzhia Oblast because of a Russian assault. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Supply: Ivan Fedorov, Head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast State Administration, on Telegram

Quote from Fedorov: "One individual was killed because of an enemy assault on the Vasylivka district. Russians attacked the Stepnohirsk hromada. They hit a residential space. A home was destroyed. A 61-year-old girl was killed in her personal backyard."

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The overseas ministers of the Baltic states and Czechia have expressed assist for a good peace settlement in Ukraine amid experiences of an upcoming assembly between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Supply: European Pravda; Estonian International Minister Margus Tsahkna on X (Twitter); Latvian International Minister Baiba Braže on X (Twitter); Lithuanian International Minister Kęstutis Budrys on X (Twitter); Czech International Minister Jan Lipavský on X (Twitter)

Particulars: Tsahkna underlined his assist for Ukraine, its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

"If borders will be modified by pressure, none are secure. If nations will be compelled to reside beneath an even bigger neighbour’s dictate, none are free," Tsahkna wrote.

Tsakhkna emphasised that Estonia won’t "reward aggression" and that Ukraine can depend on its "unwavering assist in attaining a simply and lasting peace".

Braže welcomed US President Donald Trump's efforts to finish Russia's aggression in opposition to Ukraine, however added that "simply, lasting, dignified peace is what all of us need, Ukrainians essentially the most".

"Such peace should contain Ukraine and uphold its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Russia mustn’t be rewarded for aggression," she added.

Budrys famous that Ukraine's borders, sovereignty and independence are "non-negotiable".

"From Luhansk to Crimea, each inch belongs to the sovereign nation of Ukraine, preventing for its freedom," Budrys added, pledging assist for efforts to realize "​​a simply and lasting peace in Ukraine – primarily based on worldwide legislation".

Lipavský, in flip, recalled that Russia didn’t seize Ukraine in three days or three years, and that it was compelled to barter by Ukraine’s allies, sanctions and Ukrainian braveness.

"Ukraine should stay free. State borders can’t be moved by means of strain and blackmail. Who turns into a member of the EU and NATO is determined by their members, not Vladimir Putin. Czechia desires peace, however its kind should at all times be agreed at the beginning by Ukraine," Lipavský stated.

Background: Amid information of the upcoming assembly between Trump and Putin in Alaska on 15 August, in addition to media claims that Washington and Moscow wish to attain an settlement to finish the struggle in Ukraine that may lock in Russia's occupation of a part of the territories seized throughout its full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that "the reply to the Ukrainian territorial query is already there within the Structure of Ukraine".

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Virtually a day after the summit between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Washington, Russian International Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on it, saying that the ultimate settlement between Baku and Yerevan should take Moscow's opinion under consideration.

Supply: Zakharova's feedback have been revealed by the Russian International Ministry on Saturday, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Zakharova paid little consideration to the agreements between Azerbaijan and Armenia, however was fast to stress that that they had repeatedly said their unwillingness to hunt "outdoors assist".

"It’s price recalling that the present stage of Armenian-Azerbaijani normalisation started with the direct help and central function of Russia," the spokeswoman for the Russian International Ministry continued.

She additionally mentioned that the "optimum choice" for resolving the battle within the South Caucasus ought to contain solely the nations of the area and their neighbors — "Russia, Iran, Türkiye" — that’s, not the US.

"We are going to moreover analyse Washington's statements concerning the unblocking of regional communications. On this space, the trilateral agreements involving Russia stay related, and not one of the events has withdrawn from them," Zakharova emphasised, recalling the presence of Russian border guards in Armenia.

Background:

• It ought to be recalled that Azerbaijan and Armenia have been in a state of struggle since declaring independence greater than 30 years in the past, and in 2020 and 2023, Azerbaijan regained management over Nagorno-Karabakh on account of navy motion.
• On 8 August, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed an settlement on the White Home within the presence of US President Donald Trump to create a transit hall and known as it a "Trump Route for Worldwide Peace and Prosperity".

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