The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Donetsk with MLRS ’’Grad’’

1 The DRP

Disturbing news from the DPR. The Ukrainian forces attacked the city of Donetsk with MLRS ’’Grad’’. The Petrovsky, Kievsky, and Kirovsky districts were hit. A local woman was killed. Two city hospitals were damaged. The Ukrainian forces used rockets of MLRS «Uragan» to drop small sized anti-personnel landmines on the city. A local man in the town of Makeevka step on such landmine. A oil depot in the same town caught fire during the attack — the fire was put out. The local filtration station that supplies water to Donetsk, Makeevka, and Yasinovataya, was cut off the grid during the attack.

2 Ukraine

The commanders of the 132nd Ukrainian scouting battalion, stationed near the city of Kharkov, refused to follow orders of the high command due to the high casualties — the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. «The commanders of the 132nd scouting battalion refused to carry out the orders of the high command due to the high losses from the artillery fire near the village of Nortsovka, Kharkov region» — the document stated. The commanders crossed the Seversky Donets River, together with their servicemen, and went to a temporary deployment point.

3 The USA

The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Oleg Syromolotov, stated during an interview to the RIA NEWS that the USA and their allies are using informational technologies for offensive purposes, and with those actions they admit that they made the ’Ukrainian IT forces’ to attack the Russian infrastructure. While speaking about the 3rd session of the UN-led, open-ended working group on the informational and communication technologies, he stated that the Russian delegation used facts to remind that it was the USA and their allies that used such technologies for the offensive purposes. Back in June, the director of the Department of International Information Security of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Andrey Krutskikh, reported that hacker groups from Ukraine, Georgia, and the USA are carrying out cyber-attacks against the Russian government agencies, and the data banks of Russians and foreigners, living in Russia. 22 hacker groups are involved in the illegal operations. The «IT Army of Ukraine», the American ’’GhostClan’’, the Georgian ’’GNG’’, and the Polish ’’Squad303’’ are the most active groups.

4 Taiwan

The Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Cooperation of Cambodia, Kung Foak, stated on 3rd of August that the foreign ministers from the countries of the ’Association of South-east Asian Nations’ expressed their concern about the growing tension around Taiwan due to the visit of the US speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan. The statemen was made in Phnom Penh, which is currently hosting the 55th meeting of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers, organized by Cambodia, currently chairmanning the organization.

5 Syria

The ISIS attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in the Diyala province during night time. The attack took place near the city of Kara-Tabba, from 2nd to 3rd of August. A unit of Iraqi forces moved out to help the attacked checkpoint, but it was ambushed by an another ISIS group. 1 Iraqi military vehicle was destroyed, which killed 4 Iraqi servicemen, and wounded 3 men. 1 serviceman died on the outpost itself.

6 Yemen

The UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grudenberg, reported that the rebels and the government of Yemen agreed to extend the ceasefire for 2 months — the ’Khabar’ news agency reported on 3rd of August. According to Hans Grudenberg — the parties of the conflict promised to cooperate on a number of issues. He added that the blockade of the city of Taiz by the rebels remains an obstacle to a peaceful settlement of the situation in the country. He also added that the UN will help to settle down this conflict, and all other similar conflicts. The news of the extension of the ceasefire was received positively by the parties of the conflict, plus Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf Cooperation Council. Constantine Reztsov, specially for the ANNA NEWS