On 29 August, the Air Force of Ukraine launched more than 15 concentrated strikes on the Russian occupiers’ positions on different fronts. The Ukrainian forces shot down a X-59 missile and 3 Russian drones.
Mykhailo Podoliak, the Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, has reported that the occupiers are deliberately launching attacks on the corridor, which IAEA has to use to get to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).
The first ship with Ukrainian agricultural products chartered by the UN World Food Programme has arrived in Djibouti.
Mikhail Razvozhayev, appointed by Russian occupiers as the “governor of Sevastopol”, claimed that on the afternoon of 30 August, the city’s air defence systems went online and allegedly shot down a drone.
Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov said that the Russian forces continue to relentlessly shell Enerhodar, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant’s (ZNPP) satellite city. Meanwhile, panic is spreading among the local residents.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has once again appealed to journalists and popular bloggers, asking them to refrain from speculating about or casting judgement on the actions of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, has said that Ukraine has begun to develop evacuation routes from Crimea for when the Ukrainian peninsula is liberated.
In the evening of 30 August, explosions rang out in Kherson and Beryslav of the Kherson region. The Ukrainian defenders once again might have targeted the Antonivka bridge.
The members of the IAEA mission, who are to visit the Zaporizhia NPP which has been occupied by the russian forces, have already arrived in Kyiv.
On August 28, a charity running event was held in Irpin to draw attention to the restoration of the city and to raise funds for the urgent reconstruction of damaged buildings.
Residents of Russian-occupied Mariupol staged a “hunger riot” when the International Committee of the Red Cross tried to cancel the distribution of humanitarian aid due to the large number of people.
According to CNN, the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has already arrived in Kyiv.
In the first reading, Verkhovna Rada has adopted the law “On Media,” which is one of the seven EU requirements to start accession negotiations.
The Russians are offering the parents of schoolchildren in temporarily occupied Nova Kakhovka a one-off payment of 2,000 roubles for them to send their children to a Russified school.
The total sum of damage to the infrastructure dealt by the Russian occupiers in the village of Vorzel, Kyiv region, in spring this year, exceeds US$54 million.
