Night air attack, 184 combat clashes, battles in the Liman and Pokrovsky directions, losses of occupiers, enemy shelling, election campaign in Georgia.
Aftermath of shelling of Donbass
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Ukrainian military shot down a Russian Su-25 aircraft that was trying to shell the positions of the Defense Forces units.
It is noted that the enemy aircraft was shot down with a precise shot from a MANPADS by anti-aircraft gunners of the 28th separate mechanized brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that 184 combat clashes occurred over the past 24 hours. The most serious situation was in the Pokrovsky direction, the enemy was also active in the Kupyansk, Toretsky, and Kurakhovsky directions. Russia launched four missile strikes with 12 missiles, 86 airstrikes (110 KAB), and carried out more than 4,300 shellings, including 120 from multiple launch rocket systems.
In the Kupyansk direction the defenders repelled 25 attacks near Sinkovka, Stepnaya Novoselovka, Kolesnikovka, and Stelmakhovka.
In the Toretsky direction The Defense Forces repelled 23 attacks, in particular, near Nelipovka, Toretsky, and New York.
At PokrovskyThe defenders repelled 55 attacks by the invaders in the area of the settlements of Vozdvizhenka, Sukhaya Balka, Novoaleksandrovka, Zelenoe Pole, Mirolyubovka, Novogrodovka, Mikhailovka, Grodovka, Mironovka and Selidovo. The greatest concentration of attacks was near Novogrodovka.
More details about the operational situation are in the news.
Gazshtab also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces eliminated another 1,090 invaders. Since the beginning of the invasion, the Russian army has lost about 611,190 soldiers.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
Today, August 28, in the village of Izmailovka, Pokrovsky district, Donetsk region, Russian troops dropped an air bomb on a house where a family of four was staying, the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office reported. All of them died under the rubble of the house: the parents, 45 and 53 years old, as well as their 17-year-old son and 24-year-old daughter. The bodies were freed from under the remains of the house by rescuers.
“Under the procedural leadership of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, a pre-trial investigation has been launched into a criminal case on the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine),” the prosecutor's office noted.
Two people were injured as a result of Russian shelling of Izyum. The enemy struck the city yesterday at about 10 p.m.
Houses and a bakery were damaged, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA, reported on Telegram.
According to him, one person was hospitalized. Seven suffered an acute stress reaction, including children aged three, five, eight and 16. Another two have minor injuries and two have cuts to their extremities. Among those with cuts is also a 13-year-old child.
The body of a fourth victim was found under the rubble of a hotel in Krivoy Rog, which was shelled by Russia.
The search operations have been completed, the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak, reported on Telegram. The city declared August 28 a Day of Mourning.
Ukrainian drones hit several oil tanks at the Glubokinskaya base in the Rostov region. This was reported by Reuters with reference to Russian Telegram channels.
The regional governor said that four drones were allegedly shot down. He kept silent about the hit on the oil depot.
Meanwhile, the Internet is reporting that a fire is raging at two fuel storage facilities at once.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili signed a decree scheduling parliamentary elections in the republic for October 26.
As NewsGeorgia explains, this step is rather symbolic, since the date of the vote is determined by the Georgian constitution. However, the election campaign officially begins in the country from the moment the presidential decree is signed.
Zurabishvili, commenting on the current party competition, said that “this is not just a choice of a political force that is closer to someone in views, but a real salvation of the country's future.” The president called the upcoming vote “existential, which will determine the fate of the country for many years.”
Both the ruling “Georgian Dream” and representatives of the opposition talk about the importance of the choice. However, the interpretations differ: the ruling party offers citizens to choose “between peace and war,” while the democratic forces insist on the need to give preference to “Europe over Russia.”
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