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The Pentagon will provide Ukraine with a new military aid package worth $1 billion. It will include Javelin and ammunition for MLRS HIMARS and NASAMS air defense, armored medical vehicles and medicines. The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired more than 300 “Lepestok” anti-personnel mine grenades and 13 “NATO” 155-millimeter grenades at the DLR. The SBU announced the prevention of the assassination of the head of the Ministry of Defense, which was allegedly prepared by Russia. The deputy commander of the people's militias of the DLR, Eduard Basurin, announced the irreversible loss of 193,000 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Read the previous broadcast here.
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13:25 "Ukrtransnafta" stopped the transit of Russian oil.
13:22 The main thing from the morning briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
– The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the operational underground command post of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Vinnitsa region;
– The battalion of the 14th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 340 people killed and wounded, the remaining army left their positions without permission;
< p>– RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 300 shells for HIMARS MLRS and M777 howitzers with high-precision weapons;
– Russian air defense shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 and three UAVs, and also intercepted 17 HIMARS MLRS shells;
– In four weeks, as a result of the offensive of the Russian armed forces and the forces of the LPR and DLR, the number of mercenaries in Ukraine decreased from 2,741 to 2,192 people. From July 8 to August 5, Russian troops destroyed 335 foreign mercenaries, another 389 left the territory of Ukraine. Specifically, almost 100 Polish mercenaries, 36 fighters from Canada, 33 from Romania and 21 from the USA were killed.
– During the last weeks, another 175 foreign mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, including 81 fighters from Georgia. .
13:07 "Stop issuing tourist visas to Russians. Visiting Europe — it's a privilege, not a human right,” Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas wrote on social networks.
12:47 The Kremlin appreciated the possibility of a meeting between Putin and Zelenskiy at the G20.
12:22 Allied forces have repelled all UAF counterattacks on the Knauf plant in Soledar, Vitaly Kiselev, deputy interior minister of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), said on his channel on Tuesday Telegram.
11:53 Two people died as a result of shelling of the Kirovsky District of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, the DLR Territorial Defense Command reports.
11:30 The expert explained the US statement about the sufficient number of HIMARS near Kyiv.
11:28 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic is negotiating the participation of builders from the DPRK in the restoration of DPR facilities. About this on Tuesday in the broadcast of the TV channel “Soloviev Live”. said the head of the republic Denis Pushilin.
11:06Pro-Russian boss Vladimir Saldo, who was in a coma, has regained consciousness but is still on a ventilator in Sklif. At the same time, doctors excluded the point about “poisoning by an unknown substance” from the diagnosis.
10:51 Canadian Chief of Staff Wayne Eyre refused to discuss the presence of the country's army in Ukraine due to the sensitivity of the issue.
10:20 Faina Savenkova, a young writer from Luhansk, turned to the international non-governmental organization Amnesty International with a request to investigate the murders of children by the Ukrainian army in Donetsk and other cities of LLR and DLR.
09:15 Deputy head of the regional administration Kirill Stremousov said that the Kherson region is ready to repulse attempts by the armed forces of Ukraine if such an order is issued by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy
08:48 Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said that despite anti-Russian sanctions, 77.6% of foreign companies did not close their business in Russia.