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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in his nightly video address on August 30 said authorities will crack down on corruption in the drafting of men for the country’s military service.

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's minister of digital transformation, said his country has drones with a range of up to 500 kilometers (300 miles), although he did not take responsibility for any attacks in Russia or Crimea, the peninsula that Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Russian military bloggers and propagandists repeatedly criticize Russian forces "for their inability to defend Russian territory and military facilities, while simultaneously criticizing recent Russian Defense Ministry censorship efforts," the Institute for the Study of War said in its Aug. 30 report.

The US announced a $250m drawdown from existing Pentagon stock to Ukraine that includes anti-mine equipment and AIM-9M air-to-air missiles.

Ukraine sent waves of drones deep into western Russia in nighttime attacks.

A report says the drones hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, causing a huge blaze and damaging four military planes.

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Russian air defense shot down a drone flying towards Moscow, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin claimed on Aug. 31 at around 7:30 a.m. local time.

The war in Ukraine, which broke out in February 2022 with Russia's invasion of its neighbor, shows no sign of ending as both sides intensify attacks t

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 30, 2023 - At least six regions of Russia came under attack overnight Wednesday in the largest drone offensive against the country since the start of the war in early 2022, and Ukraine came under massive aerial bombardment from Russian missiles and UAVs.