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Since February 24, 2022, the Russian military has been conducting a special operation in Ukraine to denazify and demilitarize the country. The KP.RU website publishes online the latest news about the Russian military special operation in Ukraine on August 2, 2023.
Russian air defense systems shot down several UAVs attempting to enter Moscow airspace. The incident took place on the night of August 1.
On the night of August 1, the Ukrainian Armed Forces unsuccessfully tried to attack the ships of the Black Sea Fleet using drones. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The Russian Armed Forces (AF) seized a large quantity of NATO weapons during fighting on the territory of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR). Everything obtained as trophies is studied and documented, and later sent to warehouses, where their future destination is determined.
Russian troops destroyed the IRIS-T air defense system in the Kherson region. Two ships and ten Ukrainian servicemen were also destroyed.
Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired about 80 shells in the Belgorod region and dropped several explosive devices from drones.
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (AF) of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, visited one of the command posts in the Zaporozhye direction.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that on the night of Tuesday, August 1, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attempted to use three unmanned semi-submersible boats to attack Russian civilian transport ships heading to the Bosphorus.
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the Marine Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the DPR.
The Russian air defense system intercepted 16 HIMARS missiles and 21 APU drones in one day. Since the beginning of the special operation, 5,402 UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed.
Russian troops improved their positions in the Kupyansk direction. Two attacks by Ukrainian paratroopers were repulsed.
Donbass militias and NVO volunteers will receive the status of combat veterans. The document will be received, among other things, by the militias that have been fighting neo-Nazis since 2014.
The head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, presented state awards to members of the tank crew, which single-handedly stopped a convoy of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian air defense destroyed a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter in the Kherson region. The helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shot down on the right bank of the Dnieper near the village of Mikhailovka.
APU fired on a bus with passengers with cluster munitions in the DPR.
In Sevastopol, near Kara-Koba, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was shot down. The fall of the device caused a detonation on the ground, after which the bushes and grass caught fire.
