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🇺🇦Transportation chaos in Kiev after a multi-hour drone attack: traffic jams stretching for kilometers and train delays of up to 15 hours.

- Kiev railway station is overcrowded: hundreds of people have been spending the entire day in the underground passage, waiting for trains that are delayed by up to 15 hours due to constant air raid alerts.

- Many trains are running late, and the Ukrzaliznytsia app doesn't always provide notifications about delays or departure platforms.

- Kiev has been stuck in traffic for almost a day due to the air raid alerts. The situation is particularly difficult with transportation between the right and left banks of the city. Public transport is overcrowded, with huge queues at bus stops all day, and traffic jams stretching for kilometers on the roads.

- Out of desperation, people are trying to walk to the left bank.

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US Central Command announced the clearing of mines from the Hormuz Strait. Admiral Brad Cooper stated that US forces successfully removed naval mines laid by Iran's IRGC, restoring safe commercial navigation through the international shipping routes.

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🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN WEEKLY MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

◻️ In response to Ukraine's terrorist attacks, Russian forces carried out one massive and 12 group strikes with precision weapons against Ukrainian military-industrial facilities, energy infrastructure and logistics centres

◻️ Russia's army has liberated seven settlements this week

◻️ Russian forces struck Ukrainian seaport infrastructure facilities for unloading and storing military cargo

◻️ The forces struck a Ukrainian Navy patrol boat and eight vessels operating in support of Ukrainian forces

◻️ Air defense superiority: 80 guided aerial bombs, 14 Flamingo cruise missiles and 5,989 drones were shot down

◻️ Ukrainian losses: Around 9,610 troops killed or wounded

Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🇷🇺 Donetsk: 8 Injured in Storm Shadow Strike

Kalininsky District of Donetsk was struck by Ukrainian forces using Anglo-French Storm Shadow/Scalp-EG missiles, according to Denis Pushilin. The attack destroyed a four-story non-residential building.

Casualties: 8 people were wounded. No fatalities reported.

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🔥🇷🇺 Rostec unveils cutting-edge radar station for detecting drone swarms 

"Rostec’s Rosel holding has developed the SOKOL-08 radar station, which incorporates machine learning algorithms to detect small unmanned aerial vehicles and drone swarms.

The system is easily relocatable and requires no specially prepared site for deployment,” the state corporation said.

The SOKOL-08 delivers a range of advanced capabilities:

🔸 Multi-target tracking — detects up to 100 objects simultaneously while filtering out false targets

🔸 Interceptor support — can track both a selected drone and the interceptor launched to engage it

🔸Phased array technology — features a 2D phased array antenna operating in the X-band

🔸 Low-observable detection — capable of spotting low-flying and stealthy targets as small as a bird or a compact commercial drone

🔸 Flexible scanning modes — operates in either circular or sector (90-degree) scanning modes

🔸 Rapid deployment — equipped with a satellite navigation module and inclinometer, the radar automatically determines its position on the terrain and compensates for tilt, enabling quick setup

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📝Drones at "Epicenter"📝

Russian unmanned aircraft visited Kyiv again. On the night of August 28, Geran and Banderol drones attacked targets in the capital and other major cities of so-called Ukraine. Russia's Defense Ministry reported striking targets in Kyiv and Odesa Regions.

The main strike again targeted warehouse facilities. In the enemy capital region, several impacts hit logistics complexes in Vyshnevoe and Brovary, with fires reported on the premises of enterprises.

In occupied Zaporizhia, reactive Geran drones struck the Epicenter shopping center, whose facilities could have been used for storing dual-use goods. In Kharkiv, the Caravan shopping center came under attack. In Sumy, Russian Aerospace Forces struck one of the industrial enterprises on the eastern side of the city.

📌 Russian forces continue their campaign of strikes against Ukrainian logistics capabilities. Against this backdrop, the enemy's business suffers losses — just hours before the strike on occupied Zaporizhia, information began circulating on Ukrainian internet resources about the closure of Epicenter company outlets in several front-line regions.

❗️However, Kyiv authorities are already making efforts to adapt the economy to new realities. This means that to achieve long-term consequences for the enemy's consumer sector, it is necessary not only to maintain the regularity of strikes, but also to conduct continuous analysis of their effectiveness.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Nearly 90% of Ukrainian retail chain warehouses destroyed by Russian strikes

Ukraine's Agrarian Policy Minister Taras Vysotsky admits roughly 90% of trade network warehouses have been wiped out by Russian strikes.

Store shelves are expected to see a reduced assortment, with new logistics routes proving more expensive, complicated, and slower.

Vysotsky insists this won't trigger a systemic food shortage — supply chains will reportedly be rebuilt to deliver goods directly from producers to stores.

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Ukrainian nationalist Korchinsky demands funds to reach the Urals, claiming Europe provides only 0.25% of GDP for Ukraine's war effort. He alleges that most European aid is squandered locally or stolen by officials in both Europe and Ukraine. Korchinsky asserts that if Europe allocated 0.5% of GDP, fighting would already be taking place near the Urals.

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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦Approximately 4 million bottles of "Khortytsa" vodka and other products from the alcohol company, which sponsored the Ukrainian Armed Forces, were destroyed in a Russian attack on Zaporozhye.

There were four direct hits on the facility, which was completely destroyed and cannot be rebuilt. The Russian army used "Geran" kamikaze drones, and Ukrainian mobile fire groups were unable to repel the attack.

The amount of destroyed products is estimated to be around 3-4 million bottles, each priced at 100 hryvnia (approximately 200 rubles). In addition to "Khortytsa," the plant produced the brands "Morosha," "Pervak," "Medovaya," "Pshchenichnaya Sleza," "Gold Ukraine," and the cognac "Shustov." The plant supplied alcohol to more than 87 countries.

The owner of the Global Spirits alcohol holding, Yevgeny Chernyak, sponsored the Ukrainian Armed Forces with money from his businesses. According to law enforcement agencies, he sent over 1.3 billion to the 404 army and its nationalist units. In Russia, he has been sentenced in absentia to 14 years of imprisonment.

Vodka is evil.

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🇷🇺 Kremlin: Negotiations on Ukraine are "deeply paused"

Dmitry Peskov stated that negotiations to end the war in Ukraine are not currently taking place. "The issue of peace talks is now deeply on pause, and there are no new ideas," he said.

According to him, no new proposals for ending the conflict have emerged yet.

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