Ukraine tried to attack Russian territory with aircraft-type drones and the Russian air defense systems shot down two drones over the Bryansk and Kursk regions, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
Ukraine risks losing military support from some "major powers" if the battlefield in Russia's war against Ukraine moves to Russian territory, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview on Aug. 27.
New cases of abduction of children have been recorded in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Russian occupiers have been taking them to Russian territory. Source: Ukraine's National Resistance Center Details: The National Resistance Center reported that the so-called Russian administrations continue to take Ukrainian children to Russian territory.
United States Senator Richard Blumenthal has visited Kyiv and said that Ukrainians have every moral right to attack Russian territory. Source: European Pravda; Ukrinform news agency with reference to Blumenthal in Kyiv during a press conference held in a shelter due to an air raid warning Details: The US senator said Ukrainians have "absolutely every moral right to do what they are doing".
The United States believes that the plane carrying Wagner Group leaders is likely to have been shot down by a missile fired from Russian territory. Source: Reuters, citing US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, European Pravda reports.
Ukrainian forces appear to have stepped up their efforts to weaken Russian air superiority in the war by attacking bases that house supersonic warplanes deep inside Russian territory.
Russian troops have been using pontoon bridges at the Chonhar and Henichesk checkpoints on the administrative border between Ukraine's south and occupied Crimea since the Ukrainian Armed Forces' precision strikes on the permanent bridges in early August.
UK Defence Intelligence has suggested that the drone attack that destroyed a Tu-22M3 bomber at the Soltsy airfield in Russia's Novgorod Oblast may have been carried out from Russian territory. Source: UK Ministry of Defence, as reported by European Pravda Details: As UK Defence Intelligence stated, "copter UAVs are unlikely to have the range" to reach the Soltsy facility from outside Russia.