Ukraine said Saturday it had attacked an ammunition depot in Russia’s western Voronezh region.

“On August 24, intelligence personnel of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (DIU) successfully raided an ammunition depot located near Ostrogosk in the Voronezh region of Russia.

Russia announced on Saturday that it had exchanged 115 prisoners with Ukraine from each camp containing Russian soldiers captured during the Ukrainian offensive on the Kursk border region.

“At the end of the negotiations, 115 Russian soldiers captured in the Kursk region were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime. In return, 115 prisoners of war of the Ukrainian armed forces were handed over,” the Russian ministry said. Security.

Five people were killed and five wounded on Saturday in a Russian bombardment of the industrial city of Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office announced.

“As a result of this enemy attack, five residents – three men and two women – sustained critical injuries,” he said in a statement.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday announced a law banning the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the official text of which was posted on the parliament’s website.

The law, condemned by Russia, was promulgated on the day of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union and two and a half years after Russia launched its invasion of the country.

War in Russia is “again”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a speech broadcast on Saturday, adding that Moscow, which attacked his country in 2022, “will know what retaliation is”.

Russia wanted to “destroy us” but the war “came home”, he said in a video on Ukraine’s Independence Day, which he said was recorded in the border region from where Kyiv launched its sudden incursion into Russia.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced this Saturday morning that the military destroyed seven Ukrainian drones overnight. They were on the Russian side, “five on the territory of the Voronezh region, and one each on the territory of the Belgorod and Bryansk regions.”

The governor of Russia’s Voronezh region reported a fire and an “explosion of explosives” in the Ostrogozhsky district. They appear to have been caused by debris from one of the destroyed drones. The person noted that 200 people had to be evacuated during these attacks, two of whom were injured.

At a time when the UN is concerned about the safety of the Ukrainian Zaporizhia power plant, the former head of UN inspectors in Iraq, Sweden’s Hans Blix, has described Vladimir Putin as a “very rational” leader. According to him, the Russian president will not take the risk of causing a major nuclear accident.

According to him, like the war in Iraq in 2003, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine was a “revolution”. “Putin made a mistake and I’m sure he regrets it,” says Hans Blix. Nevertheless, the diplomat is convinced that the master of the Kremlin is a “very rational” person who “(she) knows what she is doing”. “He rebels, threatens with nuclear weapons, but he’s not an idiot.”

On August 17, the IAEA expressed concern about a “deterioration” in security at the Ukrainian Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, under Russian control, following a drone attack nearby.

New American aid. The United States will provide Ukraine with a new package of military aid, including anti-aircraft missiles, Joe Biden announced on Friday after calling on his rival Volodymyr Zelensky. Despite the Russian invasion, the US president wrote in a statement that Ukraine “is still a free country. The war will end with a free, sovereign and independent Ukraine,” he insisted.

The hostages were released. Four inmates who took guards hostage at a prison in southwestern Russia’s Volgograd region were “neutralized” and the hostages were “released,” the National Guard said. “Snipers of special units of the Russian National Guard in the Volgograd region neutralized four prisoners holding prison staff hostage with four accurate shots. The hostages were released,” he said in Telegram.

India along with Ukraine. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said his country strongly supports peace between Ukraine and Russia. Sitting down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mr. Modi promised. “We have not been neutral since day one, we have taken sides, we are in favor of peace,” he emphasized during this historic visit to Ukraine. The first head of the Indian government to visit Ukraine, Mr. Modi is

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