• 06/02/2025 08:55

Main news for Monday, August 5: attack on Kyiv, 108 combat touches, Olympic silver for Kovtun

Military actions in Donetsk region, 108 combat clashes, enemy shelling, 2024 Olympic Games. How will the 894th day of full-scale war be remembered?

The main news for Monday, August 5: attack on Kyiv, 108 combat touches, Olympic silver for Kovtun in parallel bars at the 2024 Olympics. 

<p>The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that as of 22:00 on August 5, 108 combat clashes occurred, the enemy launched four missile strikes, using four missiles, 36 air strikes, using 43 KAB, carried out 558 strikes with kamikaze drones and almost 3,400 shellings. using various types of weapons.</p>
<p class=With the support of aviation, the enemy tried to penetrate our defenses 23 times in the Toretsk direction. The occupiers attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders near the settlements of Severnoye, Toretsk and New York.

In the Pokrovsky directionsince the beginning of the day, 24 offensive and assault actions of the enemy have been repelled in the areas of Panteleimonovka, Novoaleksandrovka, Vozdvizhenka, Ivanovka, Zhelannoye, Novoselovka Pervaya and Yasnobrodovka. Another seven combat contacts were ongoing as of 22:00.

More details about the operational situation as of the evening of August 5 are in the news.

At about 23:00 on August 5, the Russians launched a missile strike in the direction of Kyiv and the suburbs.

“According to preliminary information, the aggressor used ballistic weapons of the Iskander-M or KN-23 type,” the press service of the Kyiv Military-Baltic Military District said in a statement.

Air defense forces and assets were operating in Kyiv and the suburbs. According to preliminary data, the defeat of enemy missiles was recorded, the exact modification of the weapons and the number of those made public by the Air Force. were received.

Ukrainian gymnast Ilya Kovtun received a silver medal at the Olympic Games in the parallel bars. The 20-year-old resident of Cherkasy earned 15,500 points. Another Ukrainian gymnast, Oleg Vernyaev, fell from the apparatus and lost a lot of points – 13,300. and text broadcasts.

Ukrenergo announced that they are not planning power outages on August 6.

The most complete picture of today is on our website. We hope that there will be more good news tomorrow.

We hold on and bring Victory closer!

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