Russia is deploying “anti-terror operations” in three border areas

Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Bledenchuk said on Facebook this Saturday that naval and military intelligence services had struck a former offshore gas platform used by the Russian military in the Black Sea. Reuters.

“The occupiers (Russian military, editor’s note) are using this space to falsify GPS data and endanger civilian navigation. We cannot allow this,” he reasoned, assuring that the strike did not cause any casualties.

He accompanied a short video to show the explosion with his message.

The mayor of the city of Kursk, Igor Gautsak, an area targeted by the Ukrainian army’s incursion, said on the social network Telegram this Saturday that his administration had received more than 16,000 requests for help from people fleeing border areas. of the region.

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus, an ally of Russia but whose army has not directly taken part in the hostilities, announced this Saturday on the Telegram network that it would strengthen its units in the Komal region on the border with Ukraine.

Belarus said it had deployed additional troops and missiles there “to respond to any possible provocation”.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday his country’s air force had destroyed several targets fired from Ukraine by drones, which Reuters reported were fired from its territory.

“Almost ten” targets violated Belarusian airspace in the Mogilev region (east), on the border with Russia,” he said.

Other targets were “transferred” to Russia before being destroyed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl. Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said Russian forces had intercepted six drones in the Yaroslavl region.

Russia’s nuclear company Rosatom has warned that the Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk region poses a “direct threat” to the plant, located less than 50 kilometers from the fighting.

“The actions of the Ukrainian army pose a direct threat to the Kursk nuclear power plant,” state Russian national news agencies, citing a Rosatom press release.

“At this time, there is a real danger of strikes and provocations by the Ukrainian military,” the text added.

For the 5th day in a row, the Russian military has announced that it is fighting an incursion into Ukraine.

The ministry said the Russian military “continues to repulse border infiltration attempts by Ukrainian armed forces,” using aircraft and artillery to attack Ukrainian troops and military equipment along the Russian border.

The Russian National Counter-Terrorism Committee announced the launch of “anti-terrorist operations (…) in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kurz regions to ensure the safety of citizens and eliminate the threat of terrorist acts carried out by sabotage groups. The enemy.”

Russian law allows the security forces and the military to gain significant emergency powers during “anti-terrorist” operations: movement is restricted, vehicles can be confiscated, phone calls can be monitored, zones declared off-limits, checkpoints set up and security strengthened. Strategic infrastructure sites.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Raffaele Grossi, called for “maximum restraint in order to avoid a nuclear accident”.

The Russian mission said it had informed the IAEA of “fragments and debris, fragments of intercepted rockets” found on Thursday at the site of a nuclear power plant near the city of Kursk.

According to its press service, quoted by Russian news agency RIA Novosti, the plant is “operating normally” with normal radiation levels.

Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed that soldiers from Kew had reached the Russian town of Soudja, which has a population of 5,500 and is still a transit hub that supplies gas through Europe-Hungary, Slovakia-Ukraine.

Several Russian media outlets broadcast an unverified video in which people posing as residents of Chaudzha appeal to President Vladimir Putin for help.

In the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, which is at the heart of the conflict and where Russian troops are making slow advances, a Russian missile attack on a supermarket yesterday killed at least 14 people, emergency services said.

According to police, 43 people were injured in the strike in Kostiantynivka, an industrial city already scarred by months of incessant Russian bombing.

Clashes continue in Kursk, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, reassuring that Ukrainian attacks had been “prevented”.

He was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying he would send more equipment, including multiple rocket launchers, artillery pieces and tanks, to counter the Ukrainian incursion.

Hello everyone, and welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to monitoring the war in Ukraine this Saturday, August 10.

Fighting raged in the Russian region of Kursk, where Ukrainian forces launched a major offensive, for a fourth straight day yesterday, prompting Moscow to send tanks and artillery as reinforcements.

The move was an unexpected setback for the Russians, who had until then held the initiative and were inexorably dominant against the outnumbered Kiev forces in eastern Ukraine.

In the Ukrainian region of Sumy, which faces Kursk, police have called for the evacuation of about 20,000 people living in 28 locations because of Russian strikes.