Olga Rozgon
The EU has warned Serbia that maintaining ties with Russia is incompatible with the bloc's values. This followed the announcement of Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vulin's meeting with Putin at a forum in Vladivostok.
In Germany, a couple has been charged with the murder of two Ukrainian refugees and the kidnapping of a newborn baby. The couple planned to kidnap the baby to pass it off as their own.
Russian propagandists are spreading false information about the search for armed criminals who allegedly signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces and escaped. The Center for Countering Disinformation denied these reports, emphasizing their fake nature.
In the occupied territories of Ukraine, a new discipline, “the basics of security and defense of the homeland,” has been introduced. russia is trying to expand its mobilization resource by teaching schoolchildren military skills.
Due to the drying up of rivers in the occupied Crimea, the inflow of water to the Partizan and Chornorichensk reservoirs has stopped. the Russian authorities are hiding information about water reserves in the region.
Volkswagen is considering unprecedented plant closures in Germany due to financial problems. The company plans to lay off up to 110,000 employees and has a €5 billion deficit due to the transition to electric vehicles and slower consumer spending.
A 45-year-old resident of Odesa was sentenced to 14 years in prison for participating in the terrorist organization “Ghost”. He helped Russia seize Luhansk region in 2014 and then hid in Odesa until his detention by the SBU in the summer of 2023.
Since September 1, the invaders have been checking a 15-kilometer zone along the Dnipro River in the occupied Kherson region. Rosgvardia is looking for “illegal immigrants” among local residents who were previously deported from this area.
The beluga whale Khvaldymyr, suspected of spying for Russia, is found dead in Norway.
A Russian intelligence informant who collected data for missile strikes was detained in Mykolaiv. The woman was recording the coordinates of defense facilities and air defense systems, passing the information to a Russian curator.
More than 80 houses burned down in Shchedryshcheve, Luhansk region, due to a forest fire. Schoolchildren from occupied Bilovodsk took a month-long “young fighter course” in Russia, and Makiivka was shelled with rocket artillery.
Remnants of Russian Kinzhal and X-101 missiles were found in Lviv region after a large-scale shelling of Ukraine. Sappers of the State Emergency Service removed the missile warheads, preventing further damage and possible casualties.
Russian troops conducted about 10 strikes on Kharkiv, damaging civilian infrastructure.
The wreckage of the Mi-8 helicopter that went missing on August 31 has been found in the Kamchatka region of Russia. The helicopter crashed into a hill at an altitude of 900 meters, killing all 22 people on board (3 crew members and 19 passengers).
Ukrainian track and field athlete Oksana Zubkovska has won a gold medal in the long jump at the Paris Paralympics. This is her fifth individual gold medal, and Ukraine's total medal tally has increased to 20 medals.
The occupants struck at Lyubotyn, Kharkiv district, damaging a civilian enterprise. Three people were injured: two men aged 70 and 57 and a woman aged 59, their lives are not in danger.
The ATESh guerrilla movement conducted a reconnaissance of the building and territory of the Russian Federal Security Service office in Taganrog.
Three people, including minors, committed sexual acts against a young boy on the beach of the Kotelevka community. The prosecutor's office initiated an investigation against the police officers who failed to register the crime in the URPTI.
The Ministry of Energy announces round-the-clock power cuts on September 1. Power engineers are working to eliminate the consequences of the attacks and prepare for the fall and winter season.
Rescuers have extinguished a fire in a high-rise building on Sheptytskoho Street in Kyiv. The fire engulfed an apartment on the 7th floor and the balconies above, 20 people were evacuated, no one was injured.
As a result of Russian shelling in Donetsk region, 1 person was killed in Shcherbynivka and 6 were wounded. In total, 2715 people were killed and 5928 wounded in the region, excluding Mariupol and Volnovakha.
A review of the five most anticipated films to be released in the fall of 2024. Among them are Megalopolis, The Joker: Madness for Two, The Hurt Locker, Gladiator II, and Wicked: The Conjuring.
UNN offers a selection of five touching melodramas to watch in the first days of autumn. The films include The Theory of Everything, The Blame Game, The Memory Diary, Emma, and Moonrise Kingdom.
Putin has received guarantees from Mongolia that he will not be arrested under an ICC warrant during his visit on September 3. This will be the first trip of the Russian dictator to an ICC member state after the arrest warrant was issued.
The SBI exposed a scheme of extortion from flower importers in Lviv region involving a senior official of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection. The official was detained while receiving a $3,000 bribe for unimpeded issuance of phytosanitary certificates.
In the occupied territories, the invaders want to organize student internships in the workshops of the Russian armed forces. the Russians plan to involve young people in repairing damaged equipment, putting them in danger.
The First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Presidential Administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, has been served with a notice of suspicion for facilitating the war against Ukraine. He coordinates the activities of the occupation administrations and organized pseudo-referendums in the occupied territories.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will be held in Basel, Switzerland. The decision was made by the organizers of the contest, SRG SSR and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
The occupiers are actively changing the location of ammunition and fuel depots in Crimea due to frequent attacks. The ATES movement is tracking the movements and passing the information to the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Germany has deported 28 convicted Afghan citizens to Kabul. This is the first deportation to Afghanistan since the Taliban came to power, organized with the mediation of Qatar.