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NY POST: Ukraine destroys airfield, fuel depots, sub in overnight drone attacks on Russian regions:
A massive drone attack walloped the military command center Russia is using to wage its war against Ukraine on Saturday.
The overnight barrage destroyed ammunition plants and fuel depots in Russia’s Belgorod, Kursk, and Rostov regions.
Among the successful targets was the Morozovsk airfield, where Russia keeps its fighter-bomber jets. The Russian airfield has played a crucial role in the Kremlin’s operations against Ukraine.
Some of Russia’s anti-aircraft defense systems were also disabled on Saturday by Ukrainian-launched missiles.
Russia also lost its B-237 Rostov-on-Don attack submarine, which was sunk Saturday outside Sevastopol in Ukrainian bomb strikes.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense noted on X the sub was now resting at “the bottom of the Black Sea.”
Russia also launched drones overnight, with 24 of the 29 being taken out by Ukrainian forces.
Separately, the United Kingdom’s Defense Intelligence Agency’s latest report said Russia is losing more than infrastructure and war machinery — its also still losing an eye-popping number of men in the brutal battles in eastern Ukraine.
The average daily casualty rate in July was 1,140, which is down from a staggering 1,262 a day in May, the UK agency said.
The report suggests the death count dip could be connected to “Russian forces consolidating positions on the Kharkov axis” in the eastern region. —>READ and WATCH MORE HERE
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskiy hails strikes on Russian targets as Moscow reports drone barrage
Kyiv steps up aerial attacks on airfields and oil depots; Russia says it ‘intercepted and destroyed’ 75 drones over regions on border with Ukraine. What we know on day 893
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has praised his forces for hitting military targets inside Russia, after his army reported several strikes including on an airfield and an oil depot. “I would like to thank each of our soldiers and all those who work in our defence industry for striking Russian airfields, oil refineries and logistics,” Zelenskiy said in his daily statement. Kyiv has stepped up aerial attacks on Russian territory, saying it carries out the strikes in retaliation for the bombardments that Ukraine has faced since Russia invaded more than two years ago. “Every strike that accurately responds to Russia’s bombs, that destroys Russian logistics, Russian bases, that makes it more difficult for the occupier to stay on our land. Every such strike brings the just end of the war closer,” he added. Russian officials did not address claims regarding the destroyed airfield, but local governor Vasily Golubev said on Telegram that authorities had introduced a state of emergency in the district of Morozovsk.
Russian officials said Ukrainian forces overnight targeted multiple Russian regions with a massive drone barrage. Russia’s defense ministry said in a statement that its air defence systems “intercepted and destroyed” a total of 75 drones over a number of regions that lie on the border with Ukraine or not far from it, including Belgorod, Krasnodar, Kursk, Oryol, Rostov, Voronezh, and the Ryazan region deeper inside Russia. Rostov governor, Vasily Golubev, said the region was attacked by a total of 55 drones, but didn’t specify how many of these were intercepted and how many hit the targets, saying only that “warehouse facilities” in the Morozovsk and Kamensky districts sustained damage in the attack.
Ukraine’s air forces says Russia launched an overnight attack over its territory with 29 Shahed drones and four missiles. Ukrainian air defenses shot down 24 drones over nine regions of the country, air force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said in an online statement. It wasn’t clear from his statement whether the missiles were intercepted as well or what damage the attack caused.
Ukraine is calling for urgent investigation of an image widely shared online that it says likely showed a Ukrainian prisoner of war killed and dismembered by Russian forces. Dmytro Lubinets, the country’s leading human rights official has appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations to look into the photograph, “probably of a Ukrainian prisoner whose head and limbs were cut off by the Russians”. “In view of these horrific images, I have urgently appealed to the ICRC and the UN to record yet another human rights violation by the terrorist country,” Lubinets said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Andriy Kostin, said an urgent investigation has been launched. “Russia consistently repeats the crimes of the Nazis, defiantly showing utter contempt for all norms of the civilised world,” Kostin said. Russia has denied torture or other forms of maltreatment of PoW. —>READ MORE HERE
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