“Russia has killed six people in the Kherson region,” Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said Sunday, August 13. The bombardment caused the death of three adults and a 23-day-old baby in the locality of Shyroka Balka and two other people in that of Stanislav, in this region of southern Ukraine.
Ukrainian attack foiled near Belgorod
Russia continues to thwart attacks by Ukrainian drones, according to its general staff. This Sunday, August 13, the Ministry of Defense indicated on its official Telegram messaging channel that its air defense had foiled a “terrorist attack” against Russian installations. A Ukrainian drone would thus have been neutralized above the region of Belgorod, a Russian metropolis on the border with Ukraine, without causing any victims or damage. A statement from the Russian General Staff almost identical to that of Saturday morning, pointing to another foiled Ukrainian drone attack over Belgorod. This area has been targeted by unclaimed strikes since the beginning of the conflict, says the British daily The Guardian.
For its part, the Ukrainian army took stock of the attacks suffered and carried out during the day on Saturday, through the voice of its staff. quoted by the British media. It indicates that the Russian troops would have launched “seven missiles, carried out 47 airstrikes and 43 rocket attacks”. All targeting 120 sites across the country.
There would also have been “39 combat engagements”, specifies the Guardian. The Ukrainian army reportedly carried out ten airstrikes on “concentrations of Russian troops, weapons and military equipment”. Similarly, a Ukrainian missile and artillery troops would have “hit a Russian anti-aircraft missile system, an ammunition depot, an electronic warfare station and three artillery systems”, quotes the British media.
Russia would have cut off Wagner’s food
For its part, the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom expressed itself on the future of the Russian private militia Wagner, this Sunday August 13. In his daily bulletin on the social network X (ex-Twitter), the ministry believes there is “a realistic possibility that the Kremlin will no longer fund the group”. According to the British authority, the Russian state would have acted “against other commercial interests of the owner of Wagner, Evgueni Prigojine”. The latter had led a failed mutiny in June against the senior officers of the Russian army, forcing the mercenaries to leave the Ukrainian front for Belarus.
The British Ministry of Defense even advances to name “the Belarusian authorities” as the “second most plausible payers” of Wagner’s activities. The ministry, however, believes that the size of the militia is likely to weigh heavily on Belarus’ “modest resources”, although Wagner is reportedly moving towards downsizing.
30,000 Russian soldiers reportedly killed in Ukraine
THE Russian independent media mediazona updated its tally of Russian military casualties in Ukraine, note this Sunday the site of the daily The world. According to the Russian media, at least 30,003 soldiers have been killed since the start of the invasion in Ukraine in February 2022, including 3,167 new recruits and 284 officers. A low estimate, according to mediazonawhich keeps this count in partnership with the Russian branch of the British audiovisual group BBC.
This number is based on “messages from relatives, news in regional media and reports from local authorities”, specifies as well. The world. mediazona also indicates that 1,351 additional soldiers have died in the past two weeks.