Russia announces destruction of key military industrial facility, Izmail port continues to be targeted are some notable news about the situation in Ukraine.
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| Izmail city, Ukraine after airstrikes. (Source: Reuters) |
* Russia destroys key military industrial facilities in Ukraine : On August 15, the Russian Defense Ministry announced: “(On the night of August 14), the Russian Armed Forces (VS RF) carried out a concentrated strike with high-precision long-range weapons, both from the air and from the sea, against key enterprises in the military industry of the Kiev government. The goal was achieved.”
According to the ministry, “the Ukrainian military-industrial complex suffered significant damage.”
In an earlier statement, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashekov said that the country's missiles also hit a factory producing, storing equipment and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Ukrainian navy.
In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry also confirmed that its forces had for the first time intercepted SCALP cruise missiles supplied by France to Ukraine.
* Russia blocks Ukrainian group from crossing the border into Bryansk : On August 15, the Governor of Bryansk Province (Russia), Mr. Alexander Bogomaz said: "Russian armed forces, as well as the Federal Security Service in Bryansk, prevented an attempt by a Ukrainian sabotage group to enter Russian territory near the village of Kurkovichi in the Starodubsky district."
According to Mr. Bogomaz, the incident caused no casualties, but industrial buildings and a car were damaged.
* Russian UAVs threaten to attack Izmail port: On August 15, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that a large group of Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) entered the mouth of the Danube River and headed towards the Izmail River port, near the border with Romania.
Several social media groups reported hearing air defense systems fire in the area near two Danube ports - Izmail and Reni.
Meanwhile, the governor of the southern Odessa region, Oleh Kiper, asked residents of the Izmail district to take shelter at around 1:30 a.m. local time, but canceled the airstrike warning an hour later.
Ukraine's Danube River ports accounted for about a quarter of its grain exports before Russia pulled out of an agreement to provide safe passage for Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea.
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