The Russians hit a blood transfusion center in a raid, causing casualties and injuries. Volodymyr Zelensky denounced this. The attack took place in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region.
Several explosions heard in the evening in Kiev and Zaporizhzhia with air raid alarms sounding across Ukraine. According to Kiev, Russia is firing ballistic missiles and Kh-47M2 Kinzhal into cities with some reports indicating that Moscow is firing missiles from inside Belarusian territory. “Right now the attack is in Kiev, Vinnutsia, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy regions. But the anti-aircraft alert is in all of Ukraine,” tweeted President Zelenskyy’s spokeswoman Iuliia Mendel. Sources in the Khmelnytskyi region also report attacks and explosions in Zaporizhzhia.
“The Russian missile attack on Zaporizhzhia hit the Ukrainian aviation company Motor Sich,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Russia says it intercepted and rejected a US drone over the Black Sea. After “detecting an air target approaching the Russian state border” over the Black Sea, Moscow launched a Su-30 fighter jet, the defense ministry said. “The crew of the Russian Sukhoi Su-30 jet identified the aerial target as a US Air Force MQ-9A ‘Reaper’ reconnaissance drone,” the ministry said in a statement. “As the Russian fighter approached, the foreign reconnaissance drone performed a U-turn,” the ministry said, adding that “the Russian aircraft returned safely to its air base, there was no violation of the confine”.
Moscow strongly condemns the terrorist attack on the Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait. This was stated by the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. “He threatened not only his crew, but also a large-scale environmental disaster,” she said. “Kiev terror attacks will not go unanswered, their minds will be held accountable”he added.
An official notice issued by the State Hydrographic Service of Ukraine declares the marine area of six Russian ports in the Black Sea as a war-risk zone. “Zone at risk of war. Marine area of the internal and external bays of the ports of Anapa, Novorossiysk, Gelendzhyk, Tuapse, Sochi, Taman”, reads the note. The notice was issued on the basis of Order no. 5 of the Ukrainian Naval Forces, and is dated August 4, 2023.
Some of the crew of the Russian chemical tanker Sig were injured by shards of glass during an attack by Ukrainian marine drones in the Kerch Strait tonight, Russian authorities say. The vessel was damaged and two tugboats arrived at the scene. According to the Moscow media, it is the chemical tanker subject to US sanctions for having supplied fuel to the Russian forces rushed to aid the regime of Bashar al-Assad during the war in Syria. Traffic on the bridge linking the Moscow-annexed Crimea peninsula to Russia was suspended for three hours before resuming early Saturday morning, according to the highway information centre. The Kerch bridge is the only bridge of its kind that connects Crimea to Russia and is used in particular for the transport of material to the Moscow military on the Ukrainian front.
“The explosion of the Russian tanker Sig carrying fuel for the Moscow troops was a special operation of the Ukrainian military services and the Navy”, writes Rbc-Ukraine citing intelligence sources and specifying that the explosion was caused from a surface drone with 450 kilos of TNT. The tanker was loaded with fuel and was in Ukrainian territorial waters, near the Crimean Bridge. Since 2019, this ship has been subject to US sanctions for transporting oil and fuel from Russia to Syria.
Ukrainian media have released an audio recording in which the crew of the tanker Sig hit by a surface drone in the Kerch Strait in the night report that the ship cannot move by itself as the engine room is flooded. According to the Russian media Baza, the Sig was in one of the areas of the Kavkaz cargo port. The impact of the drone affected the engine compartment and the pump room. The crew is currently handling towing in port. The sailors on board suffered abrasions, Baza reports by posting images of the damage inside the cargo on Telegram. Sig is one of the largest tankers in the Russian Federation (built in 2014, almost 5,000 tons).
Alarm in Lithuania for Wagner
Vilnius will close two of its six border crossings with Belarus over concerns over the presence of Wagner mercenaries, Lithuanian Deputy Interior Minister Arnoldas Abramavicius said: “We are preparing the decision to close two checkpoints next week, the Country must be ready to completely seal the border at any moment,” he said, quoted by the Guardian. The crossing points are those of Sumsko and Tvereciaus. Lithuania and Poland are considering a joint decision to completely close the border with Belarus. Lithuania is a member of NATO.
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