Sunday, August 4

Russia’s war against Ukraine

Ukraine’s Olga Kharlan (L) celebrates with teammates and the Ukrainian flag after winning in the women’s saber team gold medal bout between South Korea and Ukraine during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Aug. 3, 2024. (Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine’s military says it sunk Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine, damaged S-400 missile system in ‘successful hit.’ Ukraine’s military said on Aug. 3 that a Ukrainian missile strike the day before sunk a Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine and damaged a S-400 air defense system in Russian-occupied Crimea.

8 Ukrainian children return home from Russian-occupied parts of Kherson Oblast, governor says. In a statement released on Aug. 3, Kherson Oblast Governor Oleksandr Prokrudin said the eight children who returned home include five girls and three boys, aged between six and 17. The governor thanked the Ukrainian humanitarian NGO Save Ukraine for making the return of the children possible.

Ukraine hit Morozovsk airfield, oil depots in Russia overnight, General Staff confirms. Ukrainian forces attacked the Morozovsk airfield in Russia’s Rostov Oblast, successfully hitting its ammunition depot storing glide bombs, among other weapons, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces confirmed on Aug. 3.

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Ombudsman appeals to UN, Red Cross over alleged execution of Ukrainian POW by Russia. The photo, which is circulating on social media, shows the body of a person with his head and limbs cut off. It is unknown when the photo was taken. The Kyiv Independent was unable to verify it.

Trump congratulates Putin for Russia-US prisoner exchange. At a Georgia rally on Aug. 3, Donald Trump congratulated Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for the historic prisoner exchange arranged by U.S. President Joe Biden that freed 16 people wrongfully imprisoned in Russia, including the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

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Ukraine scrambles to reboot reconstruction tender for children’s hospital hit by Russian missile

Ukraine’s government rushed on Aug. 2 to extinguish public uproar over reconstruction efforts at Okhmatdyt, the country’s main children’s hospital based in Kyiv, which was heavily damaged early last month by a Russian missile strike.

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Human cost of war

Russian attacks on Kherson Oblast injure 3 men, 1 child. A Russian drone dropped a munition on a 12-year-old boy in Bilozerka. He suffered leg and abdominal injuries, as well as concussion, and was hospitalized, the governor said.

Russian attacks across Ukraine kill 5, injure 11 over past day. A total of 14 Ukrainian oblasts came under Russian attacks over the past day.

General Staff: Russia has lost 581,760 troops in Ukraine since Feb 24, 2022. This number includes 1,170 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported on Aug. 3.

Video: Street culture unites displaced people in Lviv

Ukraine at Olympics

Women’s saber fencing team wins Ukraine’s first gold at 2024 Olympics. Ukraine’s five-time Olympic medalist Olga Kharlan, along with fencers Olena Kravatska, Alina Komashchuk, and Yuliia Bakastova, made their way to the Olympic finals by beating Italy and Japan.

Fencer Olga Kharlan becomes Ukraine’s most decorated Olympian. After Ukraine’s women’s saber fencing team won its first gold at 2024 Olympics on Aug. 3, saber fencer Olga Kharlan becomes the most decorated Olympian in Ukraine’s history.

Ukraine’s boxer Khyzhniak reaches semifinals in Paris, securing Olympic medal. The 29-year-old Ukrainian won by unanimous decision, with a score of 30-26.

Ukrainian gymnast Illia Kovtun finishes fourth in the men’s floor exercise final at Paris Olympics. The 20-year-old gymnast was defeated on Aug. 3 by Carlos Yulo of Philipines (5 points), Artem Dolgopyat of Israel (14.966 points), who was born in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, and Jake German of the United Kingdom (14.933 points), respectively.

In other news

Kyiv evacuates first 30 Ukrainians from Lebanon amid escalation in Middle East. On the way to Ukraine, the evacuated Ukrainians, including 21 women and nine children, have already arrived in Rzeszow, Poland, where they were met by Ukrainian consuls and Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) representatives, the agency said.

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