The Kyiv Independent news site this afternoon, September 5, quoted Ukrainian officials as accusing Russian forces of shelling nine Ukrainian provinces in the previous 24 hours, killing one person and injuring four others.
The provinces shelled included Chernihiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Mykolaiv and Kherson.
Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire at Russian soldiers, in Zaporizhzhia province on September 4.
There is currently no information about Russia's response to the above accusations.
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Russian Defense Minister Lists Ukraine's Losses
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said today, September 5, that Ukraine had suffered heavy losses during the three-month summer counteroffensive but had failed to achieve its goals in any area of the front line, according to RT.
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Mr Shoigu estimated that Kyiv's forces had lost more than 66,000 troops and more than 7,600 pieces of heavy weaponry since launching the counteroffensive in early June.
According to Mr. Shoigu, despite "heavy" losses in manpower and equipment, the Ukrainian government continues its counterattack because they desperately need to show some success to Western sponsors.
Minister Shoigu said the most tense situation remained in the southern Ukrainian province of Zaporizhzhia, where Kyiv deployed brigades from its strategic reserve that had been trained with the help of the West, according to RT.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar announced on September 4 that the country's forces had regained about 3 square kilometers of territory in the past week around the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk province in eastern Ukraine, according to Reuters.
Ms. Maliar also wrote on the messaging app Telegram that Ukraine had regained about 47 square kilometers of territory around Bakhmut since starting a counteroffensive in early June. Russian forces took control of Bakhmut in May after months of fierce fighting.
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Ukraine launched UAV into Crimea?
The Russian Defense Ministry said today, September 5, that an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was launched toward the Crimean peninsula, but was shot down by air defense systems, according to TASS news agency.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that a Ukrainian UAV was shot down in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea in the early morning of September 4. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced today, September 5, that Russian air defense systems shot down UAVs launched by Ukraine targeting the capital in the Istra district of Moscow region, and Kaluga province early the same morning, according to Reuters.
Also on September 5, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov of Russia's Belgorod province accused Ukrainian armed forces of firing about 60 bullets into Belgorod province in 24 hours, according to TASS.
Mr. Gladkov also wrote on the Telegram messaging app that on September 4, Ukrainian forces fired 13 artillery shells at several areas in Belgorod province.
There is currently no information about Ukraine's response to Russia's above accusations.
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Many Ukrainians dodge military service abroad, MP proposes extradition
On September 1, David Arachamia, leader of the Servant of the People party, said that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies should request the extradition of men of military age who left Ukraine illegally to avoid mobilization, and prosecute them, according to the Kyiv Post .
Bild newspaper recently cited data from the German Interior Ministry saying that since the Russia-Ukraine conflict broke out on February 24, 2022, more than 163,000 Ukrainian refugees of military age have arrived in Germany.
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Casualties from cluster bombs increased eightfold
The number of people killed or injured by cluster bombs rose eightfold last year to more than 1,000, mainly due to their use in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, an anti-cluster bomb campaign group said on Thursday.
Of the 1,172 victims worldwide last year, 353 died, including more than 300 in Ukraine, according to a report by the anti-cluster munitions group Cluster Munitions Coalition. That is the highest number of casualties since the Cluster Munitions Coalition began compiling its annual report on cluster munition use around the world 14 years ago.
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Nearly all the victims were civilians and three-quarters were children, who were often lured into playing with unexploded cluster bombs that sometimes looked like batteries, the report said.
More than 100 countries have joined the cluster bomb ban, which was introduced in 2008, but Russia and Ukraine are not among them. The United States has also not joined the cluster bomb ban and began supplying cluster munitions to Ukraine this year.
There is currently no information about Russia's or Ukraine's reaction to the above report.
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