UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will launch a fact-finding mission into an explosion at a prison in Olenivska that killed Ukrainian prisoners of war, mainly from the Azov regiment.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink have discussed cooperation on accountability for war crimes, support for anti-corruption efforts, and justice reforms.
Ukrainian farmers have already harvested 12 million tonnes of grain. Meanwhile, the projected gross yield of grain and oilseed crops increased from 60 million tonnes to 65-67 million tonnes.
In the afternoon of August 3, 2022, Russian troops opened fire on Dnipropetrovsk Region’s Zelenodolsk community, leaving a woman killed and a man injured.
Estonia will continue to deliver the next tranches of military equipment and military assistance to Ukraine and will provide comprehensive support for Ukraine on its way to NATO membership.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have repulsed enemy attacks in the Southern Bug and Avdiivka directions, and pushed the enemy back in the Bakhmut direction.
In cooperation with the 112th Territorial Defense Brigade, Ukrainian artillerymen have destroyed Russia’s self-propelled mine clearing vehicle UR-77 in Kharkiv Region.
The Main Intelligence Directorate at the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has established some circumstances of the pre-meditated murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) by Russian invaders in Olenivka, Donetsk Region.
Security Service operatives have exposed and detained members of the FSB-run human intelligence network, which had been providing the enemy with information on military and strategic objects throughout Ukraine.
As of August 3, the Russian invaders are trying to hold their ground in the south of Ukraine, also preparing a counteroffensive effort to advance to the administrative border of Kherson region.
In the captured city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, Russian invaders are buying up and seizing from local shops all types of inflatable boats and even mattresses.
Reports of Russian crimes committed during the war unleashed against Ukraine must not become a new norm for the rest of the world, otherwise it would mean that the world has changed for the worse.
It is no coincidence that Russia launched a missile attack on Lviv region’s Chervonohrad district, near the border with Poland, on the day the minister of foreign affairs, Zbigniew Rau, was visiting Kyiv.
As an aggressor power, Russia must pay reparations to Ukraine, while using Russian assets frozen as a result of sanctions, would put a good start to the process.