We have collected the latest news about the situation in Ukraine on August 15, 2023.
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In the Kupyansk direction, Russian troops repelled six enemy attacks and counterattacks. The losses of the Ukrainian army in this direction amounted to 65 soldiers. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also lost three armored fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, a German-made Panzerhaubitze-2000 self-propelled artillery mount, two Polish Krab mounts, a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, as well as Msta-B and D-30 howitzers. In the Donetsk direction, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in manpower are even higher – 150 servicemen. Russian forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Avdiivka. The armed forces of the Russian Federation over the past day struck the battery of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in the Green Guy area of the Nikolaev region.
The Armed Forces of Russia attack the places of production and storage of unmanned boats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russian Armed Forces attacked the places where unmanned Ukrainian maritime drones used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for terrorist attacks were produced and stored. All designated targets were hit, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine leave their positions in the Kharkiv region
Ukrainian soldiers are abandoning their positions in the Kharkov region due to the massive offensive by the Russian Armed Forces, former CIA agent Larry Johnson said in an interview with Western journalist Stephen Gardner. According to him, kyiv can no longer hold its positions, it is losing a huge amount of manpower and resources, unsuccessfully trying to break through the Russian defenses. “Ukraine is evacuating the population and the Armed Forces are withdrawing,” says Johnson.
Why Ukrainians flee mobilization
Residents of Ukraine are fleeing the mobilization outside the country en masse. According to the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Georgy Mazurash, the reason for this was the short-sighted decisions of the kyiv regime. He said that Ukraine’s population could now be reduced to 20 million people. And this is facilitated by the fact that the kyiv authorities treat its citizens “like slaves.” The parliamentarian added that in the near future Ukraine will face a demographic problem, so the authorities should review their policy as soon as possible.
In the United States they were shocked by the truth about the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the offensive
Former adviser to the Pentagon chief, Colonel Douglas McGregor, said more than 120,000 new graves had been prepared in Ukraine after the failure of a “counterattack” by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In his video blog, he claimed that Ukraine was destroyed and that the real losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are at least 350-400 thousand people. “This is a disaster that must end,” McGregor concluded.
He named the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine under Biden
In total, the United States has provided $43.7 billion in military aid to Ukraine during Joe Biden’s tenure. This is stated in the published reports of the US Department of Defense. Recall that the Russian Federation earlier sent a note to the NATO states due to the supply of weapons to kyiv. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any shipment containing weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia.
