► Moscow says it destroyed military industrial sites in night strikes
The Russian army claimed Tuesday, August 15 to have destroyed during the night several military industrial sites in Ukraine during a new salvo of night bombardments. “Last night, the armed forces of the Russian Federation delivered a targeted blow (…) to key military-industrial enterprises of the kyiv regime”said the Russian Ministry of Defense in its daily press release, assuring as usual that “all targeted sites have been affected”.
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Earlier today, Swedish ball bearing giant SKF confirmed that three of its employees had been killed following an attack that hit its plant last night in Lutsk, Ukraine.
► Russia says it prevented a Ukrainian incursion into a border region
Russian forces prevented an incursion of a “group of saboteurs” Ukrainians in the Briansk region, bordering Ukraine, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz said on Tuesday.
Russian armed forces and border guards “prevented an attempt by a group of Ukrainian saboteurs to enter Russian territory” near the village of Kurkovichi, in the Bryansk region, said Alexander Bogomaz, noting that ” no one was hurt “.
► Ukrainian military resources are “virtually exhausted”, according to the Russian Minister of Defense
The Russian Defense Minister estimated on Tuesday that the resources of the Ukrainian army were “almost exhausted”while kyiv launched a counter-offensive in June to retake its territories.
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“The military resources of Ukraine are almost exhausted”, said Sergei Shoigu at a security conference in Moscow, assuring that kyiv was not getting “no results” despite the “full support” of the West.
► Volodymyr Zelensky meets troops on the difficult eastern front
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday he traveled to the eastern front to meet Ukrainian troops struggling to regain ground from the Russians around the war-torn town of Bakhmout.
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“I visited (…) battalions leading “combat missions” in the Donetsk region. NOTWe discussed with the commander the problems encountered by the soldiers as well as proposals for solving them”, did he declare.
Volodymyr Zelensky accompanied his messages with videos in which he is seen shaking hands with soldiers belonging to different units and talking to them in unidentifiable places.