On the 162nd day of the full-scale war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine on Thursday, August 4, Russian troops continue their attempts to capture the neighboring country’s settlements. Ukraine’s Armed Forces and their territorial defense units are resisting the aggression. It is impossible to readily verify information disclosed by representatives of both sides of the conflict from independent sources.

The course of hostilities

The head of the regional administration of Donetsk, Pavel Kirilenko, announced the death of 8 people as a result of the bombing of Toretsk. Another 4 people were injured, he added. According to Kirilenko, the projectile hit a public transport stop. In addition, the church and surrounding multi-story buildings were damaged. The head of the regional military-civilian administration urged residents to evacuate.

As a result of the strike in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk At least 5 civilians were killed and another 6 wounded, said representatives of the self-proclaimed “People’s Republic of Donetsk”. According to them, the city was bombed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Cabinet of the President of Ukraine, denied accusations of involvement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the tragedy. “Only the Russians themselves or the people’s militias of unrecognized criminal republics are defeating Donetsk,” Ukrayinska Pravda said, he said.

The Russian Federation is increasing its forces in the directions of Zaporozhye and Kherson. “The enemy is accumulating its forces in the directions of Zaporozhye and Kherson. Thus, the enemy has moved three battalion tactical groups to the direction of Krivoy Rog, who carried out tasks in the direction of Novopavlovsky, and also introduced an additional tactical battalion group in the direction of Zaporozhye,” deputy head of the Main Directorate of Operations of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Oleksiy Gromov said at a briefing at the Ukrainian media center in Kyiv.

He added that the enemy is replenishing lost military weapons and equipment, as well as building up the troop group in the Kherson directions and partially in the Zaporozhye directions, especially in Melitopol, by rail – through the Kerch bridge and the territory of Crimea. temporarily busy.

Aleksey Gromov also reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine withdrew from the occupied lines in the Avdiivka area and in the direction of Bakhmut. “In the direction of Avdiivka, the enemy intensified assault operations to drive Ukrainian troops out of the occupied lines to capture Avdiivka and Peski,” he said. According to Gromov, on July 30, after air and artillery attacks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine left the Butovka mine and went on the defensive south of Avdiivka. At the same time, he claims that in a week the Ukrainian military improved its tactical position and advanced into the depths of the enemy’s defense north of Slavyansk – in the areas of Mazanovka, Brazhkovka, Suligovka and Dmitrievka.

AI: APU places military equipment in residential areas

Ukrainian soldiers set up bases and use weapons systems in residential areas, including schools and hospitals, Amnesty International (AI) writes in a report. Such tactics by the Ukrainians threaten civilians and violate international humanitarian law, the report’s authors emphasized.

At the same time, human rights activists recorded Russia’s commission of war crimes in Kharkov. The organization “found no evidence that Ukrainian forces were in civilian areas subjected to illegal bombing by the Russian military,” the report says. In addition, the Russian Federation uses cluster munitions banned by the international community, AI said.

Official Kyiv is outraged by the report by the international human rights organization (AI) on the Ukrainian military’s tactics to deploy forces close to civilian infrastructure. Thus, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that the organization is trying to create a “false balance between the aggressor and the victim”, between the attacking country and the defending country. “Stop creating a false reality where everyone is to blame for something,” he turned to AI. “Take care to report the systemic truth about what the Russian Federation is.”

SBU: Detained observer of Russian attacks in Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced the arrest of another observer of Russian missile attacks in the Nikolaev region. The man, through social media groups and instant messengers, transmitted to the Russian side the exact coordinates of the positions of the Ukrainian military, the location of military equipment and the routes of its movement in the region, according to the SBU.

EU funds to support access to education in Ukraine

The European Union will allocate €16 million to support access to education and help victims of sexual violence in Ukraine. In particular, the funds will be used to equip safe places for full-time education, provide educational materials to children, as well as support distance education for children who have been forced to leave the country, reports the EU Delegation to Ukraine.

In addition, part of the funds will go towards helping victims of war-related sexual violence, namely direct assistance to local non-governmental organizations, ambulance services, as well as specialized investigation teams led by the Ukraine Prosecutor General’s Office.

Arrest of the author of a pro-Russia Telegram channel in Hamburg

The author of the pro-Russian Telegram channel, a 31-year-old German citizen, was arrested in Hamburg. “According to the investigation, the defendant ran a Telegram channel, which was considered a pro-Russia national Bolshevik platform, where open approval of the aggressive war against Ukraine provoked by Russia was expressed,” the prosecutor said in a statement.

As one of the photos showed the detainee posing with a Russian machine gun, prosecutors suspect he violated the Gun Control Act. In addition, the man is accused of wearing the Z symbol, approving criminal offenses and trying to recruit for military service abroad.

NATO’s objective is long-term assistance to Ukraine

NATO countries are cooperating closely with military-industrial concerns to be able to supply Ukraine, against which Russia has unleashed an aggressive war, with more weapons and equipment in the long run. “We have provided a lot of support, but we need to do more and be ready for the long term,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters.

In recent months, the United States and other Western countries have begun to supply Ukraine with more advanced conventional weapons. These include highly mobile HIMARS multi-launch rocket systems, which have increased range and accuracy.

Su-25 attack plane – from North Macedonia to Ukraine

The North Macedonian army donated four Su-25 Grach attack aircraft to the Ukrainian military. The planes were prepared for delivery by Ukrainian engineers. It is reported by RBC-Ukraine. According to the publication, four Su-25s, which Macedonia bought from Ukraine in 2001 for 4 million euros, were transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, before deliveries to Ukraine, attack aircraft were repaired and checked by Ukrainian engineers.

Action “Elenovka – new Auschwitz” in the center of Kyiv

More than 300 people gathered on Sophia Square in Kyiv to participate in the “Elenovka – New Auschwitz” action, organized by relatives of the captured defenders of “Azovstal” and public activists. The protesters condemned the Russian court’s recognition of the Azov regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine as a terrorist organization and vowed to launch a large-scale campaign for the release of soldiers from captivity in Ukraine’s cities and across the civilized world.