Seven people were killed in a Russian bombardment in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region, the Kiev government announced on Sunday, August 13. Shelling killed three adults, a 12-year-old child and a child in the Shiroka Balka area, and two more in Stanislaus. “A Whole Family Died in Siroka Palka”, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko lamented. Follow our life.
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Russian warning displays on Ukrainian cargo ship. A Russian warship fired warning shots at a cargo ship bound for the port of Ismail in southern Ukraine. “To compel the boat to stop”, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. The port has become one of the main exit routes for Ukrainian agricultural products since Moscow concluded the grain export agreement.
The Crimean bridge was targeted by two drones. Two Ukrainian missile attacks on a strategic bridge linking Russia with the annexed Crimean peninsula were repelled on Saturday, local authorities and the Russian military announced. “The Crimean bridge was not damaged”Crimean President Sergei Aksyonov promised in a telegram.
A total of 20 Ukrainian drones targeted the Crimea region. Russia said it shot down 20 Ukrainian drones targeting the annexed Crimean peninsula in 2014. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, fourteen Ukrainian drones were destroyed by air defense systems and six others by electronic jamming systems.