Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: The APU lost more than 560 soldiers during the counteroffensive near Nikolayev and Kherson The Ukrainian military lost more than 560 people, 26 tanks and two Su-25 attack aircraft during an attempted counteroffensive in the southern direction - in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
Earlier, the authorities of the Crimea and the Kherson region denied information about the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and called this information fake. For more information, see the material "Newspapers.Ru».
During the attempted counteroffensive in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, the Ukrainian military suffered significant losses in manpower and equipment, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. More than 500 AFU servicemen, 26 tanks and two attack aircraft were destroyed. Earlier, the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov and the deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region Kirill Stremousov denied information about the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."As a result of the active defense of the grouping of Russian troops, the AFU units suffered heavy losses.
They noted that "the enemy's losses in manpower amounted to more than 560 servicemen."
"Another attempt of the enemy's offensive actions failed miserably," the Defense Ministry concluded.
Virtual offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Earlier, the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov in his Telegram channel called "another fake of Ukrainian propaganda" information about the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction. He noted that Kiev's attempts to organize virtual offensives for the West lead to the death of people.
"Western masters need to demonstrate activity, so a gang of drug addicts and criminals is engaged in imitations and the manufacture of information fakes. And drug addicts do not feel sorry for people who are thrown to certain death for the sake of achieving an informational effect," Aksenov wrote in his Telegram channel.
Earlier, the Reuters news agency, with reference to the head of the press center of the operational command "South" of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Natalia Gumenyuk, reported on the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the southern direction.
Nuclear power plant attacks due to the IAEA
On August 29, Novaya Kakhovka and Energodar, in particular, the Zaporozhye NPP, were subjected to shelling by the AFU. There are wounded people among the residents. The head of the administration of the Kakhovsky district, Vladimir Leontiev, said that the APU fired at Novaya Kakhovka from the HIMARS MLRS, one rocket fell in the courtyard of the house and did not explode, it was deactivated by sappers. The Ukrainian military also used Tochka-U missiles.
"The territory of the hydroelectric power station, nearby territories, the sluice canal, roads, buildings that are located on the territory of the hydroelectric power station are constantly being shelled. The market has suffered very seriously, where there has never been a military. One rocket hit fragments on the territory of a driving school, which is located 50 m from the fourth secondary school," Leontiev said.
Also, a representative of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov, reported on the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant by the APU from Nikopol - the roof of one of the buildings of the station where nuclear fuel is stored was damaged. Also, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported the destruction of a Ukrainian drone over the NPP. After the shelling of the NPP, the radiation background in the region remains normal.
The head of the Energodar administration, Yevgeny Balitsky, linked the shelling of the NPP and Energodar with revenge for the citizens' appeal to the IAEA.
"For Ukraine, the visit of the IAEA mission to the station is unprofitable. To disrupt it, a cynical provocation was staged last night - the shelling of residential areas of Energodar, as a result of which people and civilian infrastructure suffered. We regard this as revenge on local residents for collecting signatures under an appeal to the IAEA to influence Kiev and stop the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant," Balitsky wrote in his Telegram channel.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported that a group of IAEA experts headed by the head of the organization Rafael Grossi, who is going on a mission to visit the Zaporozhye NPP, will arrive in Kiev on August 29. The organization also reported on Twitter that the delegation left Vienna for the Zaporozhye region.
"At the invitation of the Government of Ukraine, the IAEA has formed a mission to visit the temporarily occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. It consists of 14 international experts. A delegation of international nuclear scientists has already left Vienna and is due to arrive in Kiev today," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
Also, the coordinator for strategic Communications in the White House Security Council, John Kirby, said that the US authorities are calling for the reactors at the Zaporizhia NPP to be temporarily shut down.
Mikhail Rodionov
