Key Takeaways
Russian occupation officials in Crimea reported another drone attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet Headquarters in Sevastopol and are likely considering strengthening security on the peninsula.
Russian forces conducted unsuccessful assaults across the Eastern Axis.
Russian forces attempted limited, failed assaults north of Kharkiv City.
Russian forces failed to advance after several assaults northwest of Kherson City and east of Mykolaiv City.
Ukrainian forces continued to strike Russian ammunition depots and positions in Kherson and Zaporizhia Oblasts.
Russian and proxy forces are continuing mobilization efforts, including forced mobilization in occupied territories and advertising campaigns.
Russian occupation authorities continued coercive measures to force civilian cooperation with the occupation administrations.
Conditions in occupied territories continued to deteriorate, indicating ineffective governance.
[also:Russian occupation officials in Crimea are likely considering strengthening security on the peninsula following the attacks on Russian military infrastructure, and such measures may draw Russian security forces away from the front lines. Razvozhaev stated that all security services in Sevastopol are operating in “high alert” mode and controlling all entrances to the city.[5] Razvozhaev claimed that Sevastopol residents are asking the occupation administration to increase patrols in the city and establish new checkpoints, returning the peninsula to a security posture such as it had after Russia initially seized it in 2014. ISW has previously assessed that Russian forces have been using all types of security forces, including Rosgvardia, as combat forces and will likely need to divert some of these forces from the front lines and from occupation security duties elsewhere to defend occupied Crimea.[6] Russia’s continued failures to stop attacks against occupied Crimea may also spark public discontent within Russian society. One Russian milblogger criticized Russian forces for not using more electronic warfare (EW) equipment following the first drone attack on July 31.[7] Social media footage already shows many Russians waiting in traffic jams to leave Crimea and go to Russia, which may indicate growing public concern for the effectiveness of Russian security measures.[8]
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⚡️ Politico: US planning to give Ukraine precision-guided Excalibur munitions.
A source close to the deliberations of the latest military aid package shared with Politico that the M982 Excalibur rounds, capable of travelling up to 70 km, will be sent to Ukraine "at some point in the future."
⚡️ Intelligence: Russian troops instruct Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant staff to take time off.
Russian forces occupying the power plant prolonged their previous order for Ukrainian employees to take several days off, without specifying the return date.
This is reported by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, which believes it was done to disconnect the plant from the Ukrainian energy system.
⚡️ Russia attacks Odesa Oblast with 5 Kalibr cruise missiles overnight. According to the local authorities, two missiles were shot down, while the other three hit a grain elevator and another agricultural facility in the region.
⚡️ Ukraine's General Staff: Russia relocating its air defense systems to Belarus.
⚡️ Head of SBU in Kirovohrad Oblast Oleksandr Nakonechny found dead.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, a Ukrainian news outlet, the body had a gunshot wound.
Nakonechny had run the Security Service of Ukraine in Kirovohrad Oblast since January 2021.
⚡️ Daughter of Alexander Dugin, ideologist behind Kremlin's war in Ukraine, killed near Moscow.
Daria Dugina, 29, was killed by a car bomb on Aug. 20. She was an active supporter of Russia's war against Ukraine, and was sanctioned by U.S.
🤝 Germany will give Ukraine twenty 70-mm buggy-based rocket launchers
And the 70-mm APKWS missiles themselves in the amount of $22.6 million will be transferred to the United States, this was announced back in July.
🔗 The Austrian Foreign Ministry was outraged by the statements of the Russian diplomatic representative
It's funny that Mikhail Ulyanov considers himself a victim of the "information war" and refuses to apologize. [He called for the killings of Ukrainian population. It seems he now considers himself a victim of the info war! Austria summoned him to explain himself]
📌 Russian Defense Ministry begins serial production of Zircon missiles and continues production of Kinzhal missiles, – Shoigu
Earlier, Putin said that Zircon is a nuclear missile with a flight speed of 12,000 km/h. At this speed, Zircon can reach London in about 5 minutes
⚡️The Ukrainian military destroyed the warehouses and the command post of the invaders in Chornobaivka and Starytsy
🔸 In the Moscow region, the car of the daughter of the Russian philosopher and ideologist of the "Russian world" Alexander Dugin was blown up. According to Russian propaganda channels, Alexander Dugin himself was supposed to be in the blown-up car of Darya Dugina. The main "ideologist of the Russian world" Dugin is Putin's consultant and is considered special, as close as possible to the Russian dictator.
The daughter continued her father's work – she lectured on the ideology of "Eurasianism". In July, Western sanctions were imposed against her.
👥 U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo, speaking to his Turkish counterpart, who has been implementing and enforcing broad multilateral sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, expressed concern that Russian entities and individuals are trying to use Türkiye to evade sanctions imposed by the US and 30 other countries against Moscow.