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Wagner militant leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is still valuable to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, but Prigozhin himself has plans for Wagner's activities in Africa, where his position contrasts with that of the Kremlin, CNN reports.
Prigozhin's forces are already involved in activities in Sudan, where Wagner supplies militias fighting against the Sudanese army, and are also active in the Central African Republic and Libya.
Reznikov said that during the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian military sometimes encountered 5 enemy mines per square meter of territory.
Serhiy Ryzhenko, chief doctor at Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, where many of the most seriously wounded are being treated, said he sees 50 to 100 soldiers a day, with mines being the second most common cause of injury after artillery.
📉The Russian ruble is falling. One dollar is now worth more than 100 rubles on the Moscow Stock Exchange. This hasn't happened since March 2022, when the dollar in Russia reached 121.5 rubles. It was a historic high then. Now it could happen again.
Search operations at the Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant in Moscow Region, where an explosion occurred recently, have been completed. Eight people have not been found, local authorities said.
Russian media report that 81 people were injured in the explosion, one woman was killed, and 172 body fragments and 12 bone remains were found in the rubble.
🔱 The Ukrainian Air Force confirmed that the Russians used 15 Shahed-136/131 and eight Kalibr cruise missiles. They were all shot down by air defense. [the Odesa damage was from falling debrís apparently]
On the morning of August 14, anti-aircraft gunners shot down a Russian helicopter in the Bakhmut sector. The Air Force clarified that the Ukrainian military destroyed a Russian Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter. It was worth about $16 million.
In Krakow and Warsaw, Poland, two Russians were detained for posting propaganda ads for the Wagner PMC. They have already been taken into custody and charged with espionage.
🇷🇴 In Romania, a sea mine exploded on the shores of the Costinesti resort. It hit the pier in front of the Forum Hotel. One man complained of deafness afterwards. Military divers were sent to the scene. There are suspicions that there is more than one mine in the area.
Law enforcers expose offender who cheated relatives of a prisoner of war out of almost UAH 150 thousand - Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office.
A 34-year-old resident of Kyiv region, posing as an employee of the Ministry of Defense, offered the woman her assistance in locating her husband, a prisoner of war, for a reward.
She also promised her assistance in putting the man on the list of prisoners of war for exchange as soon as possible.
Between May and June 2023, the victim of the fraud transferred money to the fraudster six times for a total amount of about UAH 150 thousand. After that, the suspect stopped contacting her and spent the money on her own needs