partial destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, near Kherson, in the South

• Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command reported on Tuesday morning that Russian forces had blown up the dam at the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. Video captured by a drone shows a torrent of water with the potential to cause destruction around the city of Kherson and along the Dnieper River. The Russian mayor of this occupied city has denied any collapse.
• The Russian Defense Ministry said it repelled two large-scale Ukrainian offensives on Sunday and Monday in southern Donbassand have killed “more than 1,500 Ukrainian servicemen” and destroyed “28 tanks”. A qualified assessment, Tuesday, of“lucubrations” by the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgueni Prigozhin.
• The Ukrainian government, while claiming territorial gains near the ravaged city of Bakhmout, in the east of the country, has relativized the extent of its “offensive action” and provided no balance sheet. These operations take place at a time when the Ukrainian authorities say they have been preparing for months a vast counter-offensive.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday thanked his troops for claimed advances near Bakhmoutironically about the reaction “hysterical” from Moscow. ” The enemy knows that Ukraine will win”he added in his evening video message.
• During the night of Monday to Tuesday, a new air attack targeted kyiv, “possibly by means of cruise missiles”reported the civil-military administration of the Ukrainian capital. “According to initial information, more than 20 enemy air targets have been detected and destroyed” by the Ukrainian Air Defense. No casualties have been identified.
• According to an updated report published by the Ukrainian authorities, at least 10,368 civilians were killed and 14,404 injured since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022. “We estimate that the most likely is that this number is five times higher. So around 50,000” victims, says Oleg Gavrych, senior adviser to President Zelensky’s chief of staff.
• Restrictions imposed by five European Union states on the import of Ukrainian grain to protect their farmers may be extended until September 15the European Commission announced on Monday, despite opposition from kyiv and resistance from part of the Twenty-Seven.
• Pope Francis’ envoy for peace, Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, traveled to Kyiv on Monday to discuss with Ukrainian authoritiess ways to resolve the war with Russia and humanitarian needs.

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