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Tuesday, August 4
Ukraine reportedly strikes Wildberries warehouse near Moscow, St. Petersburg, Russian oil refinery reportedly set ablaze
Ukraine's military launched a wide-ranging drone attack on Russia overnight on Aug. 4, reportedly striking logistics and oil infrastructure in various regions of the country, Russian Telegram media channels reported.
Senior Iranian official claims Tehran scrapped 3 planned strikes on Ukraine following alleged 'apology'
A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader claimed that Tehran had prepared to strike three sites in Ukraine before canceling the operation after what he described as an "apology" from Kyiv, according to Iranian state broadcaster PressTV.
US unlikely to reach Patriot co-production deal with Ukraine before winter, NATO envoy says
Washington is unlikely to reach an agreement with Ukraine on the joint production of Patriot interceptor missiles before this winter, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said in a Fox News interview aired on Aug. 3.
Monday, August 3
Ukraine pairs deep strikes on Russian targets with new sanctions on Moscow's defense industry
Ukraine has imposed a new round of sanctions on the Russian defense industry, according to a presidential decree signed on Aug. 3.
Zelensky dismisses Ukraine's ambassador to US Stefanishyna
President Volodymyr Zelensky didn't provide a reason for Olha Stefanishyna's dismissal and has yet to announce her successor.
Beyond the protests — How legal mechanisms became tools of pressure
"Every time I come to Kyiv, there are protests," my French colleague once told me. "That's so great that at least in Ukraine, protests work. You can't persist while fighting on both fronts." He's right: protests do work. But only to a degree. More importantly, they are symptoms of a far more problematic phenomenon: the systematic use of ostensibly legal mechanisms to undermine civil society. If left unchecked, this practice could jeopardize Ukraine's democratic future. Last July, the swift ado
About Chornobyl
Chornobyl in northern Ukraine is the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, which occurred in 1986. The site is approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Kyiv. Russian forces seized the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone on February 24, 2022, occupying the contaminated area until late March 2022 and causing disruptions to radiation monitoring. Ukrainian authorities restored control after Russian troops withdrew in the spring of 2022.
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Ukrainian forces struck a Russian air base in Engels and an oil refinery in Saratov Oblast overnight on Aug. 2, Ukraine's General Staff confirmed after reports by monitoring channels.
