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Here’s a collection of a number of the newest photos despatched to us from Ukraine over the newswires.

Latvia’s parliament, the Saeima, has named Russia as a terrorist-supporting state.

In a press release, the Saeima known as on the EU to stop tourism from Russia. It stated:

Russia has been offering help and financing for terrorist regimes and organisations for a few years, immediately and not directly, as the biggest arms provider for the Assad regime in Syria and as an implementer, such because the poisoning of the Skripal household or the capturing of the MH-17 plane. In Ukraine, Russia has chosen the same, merciless, immoral, and unlawful tactic, utilizing imprecise and internationally banned weapons and ammunition, focusing on disproportionate brutality in opposition to civilians and public locations.

Latvia’s public broadcaster studies:

In its assertion, the Saeima stresses that Russia makes use of struggling and intimidation as an instrument in its makes an attempt to demoralise the Ukrainian folks and armed forces. The Saeima acknowledges Russia’s violence in opposition to civilians, which is being pursued for political functions, as terrorism and Russia as a rustic supporting terrorism, and calls on different similar-thinking international locations to specific such an opinion.

The Ukrainian parliament commissioner for human rights has issued up to date figures for little one casualties since Russia started its newest invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.

The official figures are that 361 kids have been killed and 705 kids injured. As of 11 August, the commissioner says that 204 are thought of lacking, and that 6,159 have been deported.

Reuters studies that the Russian-imposed authorities in Zaporizhzhia area have claimed to Russian information businesses Tass and RIA that anti-aircraft defence techniques thwarted Ukrainian assaults on the occupied metropolis of Enerhodar and the close by Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant. The claims haven’t been independently verified. The supply of assaults on and close to to the Russian-occupied nuclear energy plant has been hotly disputed.

Ukraine’s ministry of defence has been exploiting the explosions on the Russian air base in Crimea for social media propaganda functions.

It has issued a video with the message: “Except they need an unpleasantly scorching summer time break, we advise our valued Russian company to not go to Ukrainian Crimea. As a result of no quantity of sunscreen will shield them from the hazardous results of smoking in unauthorised areas.”

The video, to the soundtrack of Bananarama’s Merciless Summer time, lists a number of summer time vacation venues that Russian vacationers in Crimea might have chosen as a substitute, alongside inviting footage of these locations, then says that they made an enormous mistake by selecting to vacation in Ukraine. It then cuts collectively social media footage of the explosions together with clips of vacationers fleeing seashores and crying within the aftermath of the incident.

The reference to “smoking in unauthorised areas” is to the suggestion from Russian authorities that the explosions, which seem to have destroyed a number of planes that have been on the bottom on the time, have been brought on by an unintentional hearth on the base.

Again to that collection of explosions at a Russian air base on Tuesday for a second, the Guardian has been carrying some evaluation by Justin Bronk:

Justin Bronk, an aviation analyst with the Rusi thinktank, stated that, having studied social media movies of the incident, he might see no proof of incoming missiles and that he was “nearly sure” there have been “secondary explosions” of ammunition shops or gas bunkers which have been saved on or close to the airstrip.

That led him to conclude that “the probably present concept for me is that Ukrainian particular forces carried out the assault by infiltrating shut sufficient to the bottom to launch and information in small UAVs [drones] or loitering munitions, to hit both parked plane or gas vans/storage”.

Learn extra right here in our up to date report from Samantha Lock and from Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv: Russian warplanes destroyed in Crimea airbase assault, satellite tv for pc photos present

Russia’s governor of Kursk, Roman Starovoyt, has claimed on Telegram that two Russian settlements near the border with Ukraine are beneath hearth this morning. He named Tetkino and Popovo-Lezhachi because the targets. His message promised extra particulars later.

Russian media this morning are carrying claims from the self-proclaimed breakaway republics in Ukraine’s east.

Tass has quotes from Denis Pushilin, the self-styled chief of the mainly unrecognised Donetsk Folks’s Republic (DPR). Pushilin once more is pushing his line that the deaths of prisoners of warfare on the Russian-controlled Olenivka jail have been the accountability of Kyiv. He advised the media:

The motive right here is obvious. The primary is to close up, to not give them the chance to talk, to admit to these crimes. As a result of not solely are they the perpetrators of warfare crimes, they’re additionally witnesses. As a result of these groups gave them particular names, surnames, positions and immediately, in accordance with our information, Zelensky himself usually personally intervened right here.

Tass goes on to cite him saying that the assault occurred after confessions of Ukrainian troopers started to be made public. “After these video confessions began appearing, this blow was dealt immediately,” he stated.

There have been requires a UN-backed impartial investigation into the incident, which led to the deaths of not less than 51 folks died whereas greater than 100 have been injured. Either side of the warfare have claimed the opposite is accountable. Ukraine claims pro-Russian forces blew up the jail constructing to hide proof of the torture and deaths of the POWs being held there.

The RIA Novosti company, in the meantime, is carrying a declare from the authorities of the equally self-proclaimed Luhansk Folks’s Republic (LPR).

In its report it says that the armed forces of the LPR have advised it that they’ve discovered the our bodies of overseas mercenaries which have been burnt by Ukrainian troops as they retreated to be able to conceal the identification of the useless.

The incident is reported to have occurred at Soledar, which is contained in the territory claimed by the DPR. The report provided no proof and the claims haven’t been independently verified.

The DPR and the LPR are solely recognised as professional authorities by three UN member states: Russia, Syria and North Korea.

The British ministry of defence has issued its day by day intelligence briefing concerning the warfare in Ukraine, which right this moment has targeted on the impression of the warfare on Russia’s navy exports.

In a part of the report, the ministry says Russia’s “navy industrial capability is now beneath important pressure, and the credibility of lots of its weapon techniques has been undermined by their affiliation with Russian forces’ poor efficiency within the Ukraine warfare.”

Maksym Kozytskyi, governor of Lviv, has posted to Telegram to say that his western area of Ukraine had a peaceable evening with no assaults or air alarms. He stated that 155 folks arrived within the area on evacuation trains from the east yesterday.

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