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The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has called the strikes conducted by Ukraine's Defence Forces on bridges in the occupied territory "a part of the Ukrainian interdiction campaign" to create conditions for decisive counteroffensive operations.

Ukrainian strikes against road bridges linking Russian-occupied Crimea to Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast "pose significant disruptions to logistics," the Institute for the Study of War wrote in its Aug. 6 analysis.

This week, Russia’s Ministry of Defense released a short video tribute to soldiers from different branches of the Russian Armed Forces who fight on the frontline of the Ukrainian conflict.

The Russian invaders shelled the center of Kherson three times overnight on Aug. 7, killing a woman and injuring another 11 people, including two rescuers, the region’s governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported on Telegram.

Five people were killed and 18 injured in a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said in a Telegram post on Aug. 7.

Russian forces dropped four guided aerial bombs at the village of Kruhliakivka in Kharkiv Oblast on the evening of Aug. 7, killing two civilians aged 45 and 60, reported Governor Oleh Syniehubov.

Russian troops fired two artillery barrages with munitions containing a chemical substance, presumably chloropicrin, on Aug. 6, said Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, the commander for the Tavria military sector.

After a meeting in Saudi Arabia this weekend, Ukraine plans to hold two summits on President Volodymyr Zelensky's peace formula, one of them involving Russia. Source: Andrii Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, in a conversation with journalists in Kyiv on Monday 7 August, as reported by European Pravda Quote: "The first summit is a constituent one, at which the participants must approve Zelenskyy's peace formula of 10 points.

An alleged informant for Russia has been detained in connection to a plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said Monday.

The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous European officials, that Ukraine didn't press the demand for a full withdrawal of Russian troops to start peace talks, at the Aug. 5 meeting in Saudi Arabia. Representatives of the Ukrainian delegation denied it to the Kyiv Independent.