In Ukraine, an overwhelming majority in a poll opposed compromises with wartime antagonist Russia in exchange for a peace deal. According to the results of two well-known institutes published on Tuesday, more than 90 percent of the approximately 2,000 respondents were against the transfer of territory. Just under 74 percent ruled out joining the NATO military alliance. A reduction in the number of troops in the army in peacetime was rejected by 80 percent.
At the same time, only just under 49 percent of Ukrainians saw a positive development of events in their own country. In December last year, after the successful expulsion of the Russian occupiers from northern Ukraine and large parts of the Kharkiv and Cherson regions, almost 60 percent still believed that.
Ukraine has been repelling a Russian invasion for almost 18 months with massive Western aid. Russian demands include relinquishing Ukrainian territory in the east and south, including the Crimean peninsula annexed in 2014. The survey was conducted from August 9 to 15 in the government-controlled regions excluding Luhansk Oblast, Donetsk Oblast and the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. In total, 2019 adult Ukrainians were personally interviewed. The error tolerance should not exceed 2.3 percent.
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09:47 – Portugal’s President Rebelo de Sousa arrived in Ukraine
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has arrived in Ukraine for a two-day visit. The head of state had arrived in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev by train from Poland, reports said the state television station RTP and other Portuguese media.
On Thursday he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In addition, Rebelo de Sousa wants to take part in the summit of the so-called international Crimea platform. With this visit, he wanted to “give continuity to the Portuguese presence” and “show solidarity in all areas,” said Rebelo de Sousa after his arrival.
According to the information, the Portuguese delegation also includes Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho.
Portugal is providing military support to the country attacked by Russia. It was among the first Western allies to pledge to equip a Ukrainian battalion with Leopard 2A6 tanks. The country has now delivered three of these tanks. Portugal is also part of the so-called fighter jet coalition.
09:28 – London: Russian supplies sometimes have to take long detours
The Russian troops in southern Ukraine sometimes have to take long supply routes after Ukrainian attacks on bridges. This emerges from the daily intelligence report from the Ministry of Defense in London. Accordingly, two bridges between the Russian-occupied Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and southern Ukraine were hit and damaged by precision strikes in early August. The British announced that floating bridges were still in use at the crossings from Tschonhar and Henichesk in the middle of the month.
“The pontoon bridges should not be able to withstand the entire volume of heavy vehicles with ammunition and weapons,” the statement continued. The resulting bottleneck meant that Russian forces were partially dependent on a long detour via Armiansk in northern Crimea. “This places an additional burden on Russia’s logistical network in the south,” the statement said.
The British Ministry of Defense has published daily information on the course of the war since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine in February 2022. Moscow accuses London of disinformation.
08:59 – The current situation in Ukraine
The current situation in Ukraine
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07:25 Ukraine: Russian attack sets fire to grain stores
The Ukrainian military reports Russian drone strikes in the greater Odessa and Danube region. The military wrote on Telegram that plants in the grain industry caught fire again. Warehouses and a production and delivery facility were affected. The fire in the camps was quickly brought under control. The fire brigade is still on duty.
03:57 – Russia: Two drones shot down in Moscow and Moscow region
According to the Russian air defense, it fended off two drones over Moscow and the capital region. “Tonight, anti-aircraft defense forces shot down a drone in the Mozhaisky region of the Moscow region,” Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Telegram. “The second drone hit a building under construction in the city,” he added. According to initial information, there were no injuries.
An “explosion” was heard in a Moscow business district, the Ria Novosti news agency reported. Shortly thereafter, smoke rose above buildings. A building under construction in the district was “slightly damaged,” the state news agency Tass reported, citing rescue services. Air traffic at three Moscow airports had been suspended, it said.
03:13 – Netherlands supply demining loaders to Ukraine
The Netherlands donated around 1,000 mine clearance chargers to Ukraine. “There is a decision to supply about 1,000 portable battery chargers for long-distance demining, which can create passages in artificial barriers,” Ukraine’s Defense Ministry website quoted Dutch Defense Minister Kaysa Ollongren as saying after a meeting with Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. “As I know, you are now faced with the problem of extremely dense mining of areas,” she said. Earlier on Tuesday, Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that helping Ukraine to remove a massive land mine belt could become a joint effort by Germany and other partners.
02:18 – Tass: Moscow air traffic again suspended after drone strikes
Moscow airports have once again suspended air traffic, the Russian news agency TASS reports, citing people familiar with the matter. The major airports around the Russian capital have been repeatedly closed in recent days due to Ukrainian drone attacks.
01:34 – Three dead in Russian attacks in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine
Three people were killed in Russian artillery attacks in two villages near the Ukrainian town of Lyman. Two other people were wounded, said the head of the military administration of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, on Telegram. According to the Donetsk Prosecutor’s Office, the village of Torske was hit first, followed by the village of Sakitne half an hour later. The fatalities in Torske were sitting on a bench when the shelling took place.
In another attack in the village of Seredyno-Buda in northeastern Ukraine near the border with Russia, four people were wounded in a grenade attack and a residential building was hit by drones, the regional military authority said on Facebook.
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