Newsletter 22/08/2024
Daily news digest
Absolute majority of Ukrainians want to build their future in Ukraine
This was reported at the press conference "Ukraine’s Independence Day: the value of the state, unity and volunteering during the war", held at Ukrinform, by scientific director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Oleksiy Haran, who presented a survey jointly run with the Razumkov Center.
As for people’s main feelings about the future of Ukraine, hope (61%) clearly prevails, followed by anxiety (40%) and optimism (33.5%), Haran said.
Since the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the absolute majority of Ukrainians (71%) have contributed to volunteer aid to the Army, temporarily displaced persons, or other war-affected persons.
War
Zelensky: Focus on Pokrovsk direction, operation in Kursk region continues
Budanov explains which targets Ukrainian drones attacked in Moscow region
Ukraine’s strike destroys ammo depots with glide bombs at Russia’s Marynivka airfield - source
Umerov, U.S. Congress members discuss importance of using long-range weapons against targets in Russia
Politics
India supports efforts to restore peace in Ukraine ASAP - Modi
No war ends on the battlefield so India supports diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this during a joint briefing in Warsaw with the head of the Polish government, Donald Tusk, on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
IAEA chief plans to visit Kursk NPP, Ukraine
According to the IAEA boss, the agency is extremely concerned about hostilities going on close to the Russian nuclear power plant because the obsolete Soviet reactors have no special protective dome above them, which leaves the reactor core rather exposed.
Ukrainian pilots destroy bridge crossings in Kursk sector
Guerrillas discover special equipment of Russian Black Sea Fleet radiation and chemical defense brigade
The ATESH military partisan movement announced this on Telegram.
The paratroopers organized a "scrap day" for the occupiers
Russia reports attack on train ferry with fuel tanks at port of Kavkaz
The Kuban operational headquarters in Russia has reported an attack on a train ferry loaded with fuel tanks in the port of Kavkaz, with a fire raging on it.
That is according to the Telegram channel Baza, Ukrinform reports.
Kremlin launched information campaign to diminish losses in Kursk region - ISW
Russia opens criminal case against CNN, Hromadske reporters over war coverage in Kursk region
Russia’s FSB domestic security agency initiated a criminal case targeting in absentia a CNN journalist and Ukrainian correspondents from the Hromadske outlet who filmed reports in the Sudzha district of Kursk region amid the raid by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Cybersecurity experts attack servers of Russian TV channels to reveal truth about Ukraine war - source
Cybersecurity specialists of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) launched an attack on the servers of Russian TV channels and showed objective videos about the war in Ukraine on the air of a number of TV companies, a source in Ukrainian intelligence has told Ukrinform.
Inquiries underway in U.S. against Americans cooperating with Russian propagandists - media
This month, FBI agents searched the homes of two prominent American citizens with ties to Russian state media: Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and critic of U.S. foreign policy, and Dimitri Simes, an adviser to former President Donald Trump during his first presidential campaign in 2016.