Russia Ukraine war latest news: Kyiv accuses Moscow of dismembering war prisoner as it destroys Russian submarine

The Ukrainian air power says it shot down 5 Russian Shahed-131/136 UAVs in a single day.

Issuing a press release on Telegram, Ukrainian Air Power Commander, Lieutenant Normal Mykola Oleshchuk, mentioned: “On the night time of August 4, 2024, the enemy attacked the Kharkiv area with two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles, the Poltava area with two Kh-59 guided missiles from the airspace of the Kursk area, and launched 5 Shahed fight UAVs from Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk.” 

A Ukrainian drone killed a girl within the city of Shebekino in Russia’s Belgorod area, the regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov mentioned on Sunday.

Among the many Russians freed on this week’s historic trade of prisoners between Russia and the West was a Russian-born freelance journalist from Spain who had been based mostly in Poland since 2019

Former president Donald Trump has congratulated Russian president Vladimir Putin for the most important prisoner swap between the Kremlin and the West because the Chilly Battle.

“I’d wish to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made one more nice deal,” the Republican presidential candidate mentioned at a marketing campaign rally in Atlanta yesterday. “They launched among the biggest killers wherever on this planet,” he mentioned.

“A number of the most evil killers they bought. And we bought our individuals again, however boy, we made some horrible, horrible offers. And it’s good to say we bought them again, however does that set a nasty precedent,” he requested.

The US and Russia on Thursday accomplished their largest prisoner swap in post-Soviet historical past, a deal involving 24 individuals, many months of negotiations and concessions from different European nations.

The 24 individuals — some distinguished, some not — included a set of journalists and political dissidents, suspected spies, a pc hacker and a fraudster. Even a person convicted of homicide.

Russia launched 16 individuals.

Ukraine’s army mentioned it had sunk a submarine in Russian-controlled Sevastopool, attacked a southern Russian airfield and hit oil depots and gasoline and lubricant storage amenities in Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov areas.

“A Russian submarine went to the underside of the Black Sea,” the defence ministry mentioned in a publish on X, naming the vessel because the B-237 Rostov-on-Don assault submarine.

The army’s common workers mentioned the assault on Sevastopol port additionally considerably broken 4 launchers of the S-400 anti-aircraft “Triumf” defence system.

Ukraine’s human rights commissioner urged the UN and the Crimson Cross to research a picture broadly shared on-line that he mentioned possible confirmed a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war killed and dismembered by Russian forces.

Ukraine’s prosecutor common mentioned individually that an pressing investigation had been launched into info being unfold on social networks concerning the homicide and dismemberment of a Ukrainian battle prisoner.

“{A photograph}, most likely of a Ukrainian prisoner whose head and limbs had been reduce off by the Russians, has appeared on-line,” Dmytro Lubinets, the nation’s main human rights official, mentioned on Telegram.

“In view of those horrific pictures, I’ve urgently appealed to the Crimson Cross and the UN to document one more human rights violation by the terrorist nation,” Mr Lubinets wrote.

Andriy Kostin, the prosecutor common, mentioned an pressing investigation had been launched. “Russia constantly repeats the crimes of the Nazis, defiantly exhibiting utter contempt for all norms of the civilised world,” he wrote on Telegram.

Russia denies torture or different types of maltreatment of prisoners of battle.

Ukraine launched extra long-range drone assaults than Russia in July for the primary time because the battle started.

Based on figures revealed by the Ukrainian military, Russia launched 426 Shahed-type drones into Ukraine and Kyiv hit again with over 520 drones.

It comes as Russia has confronted harmful assaults on its oil refineries and different targets in current months showing much less efficient in taking pictures down the Ukrainian weapons.

The Ukrainian drone assaults had been significantly greater than 200 assaults in every of the earlier two months.