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17 August 2024 - Russia Special Weapons News
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Ukraine Invasion
- Kyiv Opens Investigation Into Alleged Beheading Of Dead Soldier RFE/RL 17 Aug 2024 -- Ukraine's Prosecutor-General's Office has opened an investigation into the alleged beheading of a Ukrainian soldier participating in the Russia incursion.
- Ukraine 'Strengthening' Position In Russia's Kursk Region, Zelenskiy Says RFE/RL 17 Aug 2024 -- President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Ukrainian forces are "strengthening" their positions in Russia's Kursk region after launching a major cross-border offensive more than a week ago that caught the Kremlin's military leadership off-guard and altered the dynamics of the 30-month war.
- Ukraine planning to attack Russia's Kursk nuclear plant: Moscow Press TV 17 Aug 2024 -- Moscow says Kiev is planning to attack a major nuclear power plant in the Russian border region of Kursk, warning that in the event of such an invasion, a large surrounding area would be contaminated.
- Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's comment on the incoming reports alleging that the Kiev regime is preparing provocations against the Russian Federation's nuclear facilities Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 17 Aug 2024
- Russian Defence Ministry report on repelling an invasion attempt of the AFU on the territory of the Russian Federation (17 August 2024) Russia MoD 17 Aug 2024 -- The units of the Sever Group of Forces supported by Army Aviation and artillery actively conduct actions to search for and destroy in wooded areas mobile enemy groups that were trying to break through deep into the territory of the Russian Federation in the direction of Alekseyevsky and Kauchuk.
- Statement by Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 17 Aug 2024 -- The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation gives due serious consideration to evaluating information coming through independent channels about the Kiev regime's preparations for an attack on the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant.
- Russia Urges IAEA, UN to Condemn Ukraine's Preparations for Provocations at Nuclear Power Plants Sputnik 17 Aug 2024 -- The Russian Foreign Ministry has called on international organizations, in particular the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to condemn the provocations that Kiev is believed to be preparing against Russian nuclear power plants (NPPs).
- Ukraine Loses Up to 300 Soldiers, 31 Vehicles in Kursk Region Over Past Day Sputnik 17 Aug 2024 -- The Russian military destroyed up to 300 Ukrainian militants, 31 armored vehicles, including three tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, and three armored personnel carriers in the border areas of Russia's Kursk Region over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
- Ukraine Loses Over 2,000 Soldiers in Clashes With Russia Sputnik 17 Aug 2024 -- Russia's Ministry of Defense reported on the progress of the special military operation and key achievements of the Russian Armed Forces over the past 24 hours.
- Ukrainian Troops Attack Road Near Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant With Drone Sputnik 17 Aug 2024 -- Ukrainian troops conducted a drone attack on Saturday morning on the road used by the employees of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP) and created a direct threat to the personnel's safety, the plant's press service said, adding that there were no casualties.
- Ukrainian Military Unit Surrenders to Russian Armed Forces in the Kursk Region Sputnik 17 Aug 2024 -- A military unit of 24 servicemen from the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of Ukraine surrendered to the Russian Armed Forces in an organized manner near the village of Komarovka in the Kursk Region, using a specially created channel on Telegram, a Russian law enforcement spokesman told Sputnik.
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