Victory Chronicles-DAY 1283

Ukrainian forces conducted a coordinated overnight strike on a key fuel facility in Russia’s Bryansk region that neighbors Ukraine, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said on Aug. 29.

The attack targeted a linear production station near the village of Naytopovychi, the statement said. It added that the strike was conducted jointly by missile and artillery units, drone forces, special operations troops, and Ukraine’s Security Service.

A fire broke out at the site, though the extent of the damage is still being assessed, according to the General Staff. The station pumps diesel fuel through main product pipelines, including to Russian military units, with an annual capacity of around 10.5 million tons, Ukrainian officials said.

877 people seek financial aid after a massive Russian strike on Kyiv. Nearly 900 residents have requested assistance to rebuild their destroyed or damaged abodes in Kyiv following Russia’s large-scale attack on Aug. 28, the city’s military administration reported.

Kyiv Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko said 877 people have applied for help due to injuries or property loss, and 565 damage reports have been filed. More than 5,400 shattered windows have been confirmed, with about 2,500 already covered with film or boards. Twenty-three families require temporary housing, 21 of them in the Darnytskyi district, the hardest hit area. 

Rescue operations in Kyiv end, fate of 8 people remains unknown. Rescue operations at the site of a Russian strike on a residential building in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district have concluded, but the fate of eight people remains unknown, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday.

He reported that 22 people, including four children, were killed in the attack at that single site, with the youngest victim under three years old. Overall, Russia’s large-scale strike on the capital on Aug. 28 killed 23 people and injured 53.

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said emergency crews worked for more than 30 hours non-stop. Rescuers pulled 17 survivors, including four children, from under the rubble. Zelenskyy called for stronger international sanctions and pressure on Moscow, stressing that “Russia understands only force.”

Ukrainian intelligence says S-400 radar hit in occupied Crimea

Ukraine’s military intelligence said Friday its special forces struck a Russian radar system that is part of an S-400 air defense battery in occupied Crimea.

The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR) reported that the 91N6E radar, described as a high-value target, was hit overnight on Aug. 28. The agency did not provide details on the scale of damage.

Key Takeaways:

• Russia killed at least 21 civilians, including children, and damaged civilian infrastructure and European diplomatic facilities during the second largest strike of the war thus far and the largest strike since the August 15 Alaska Summit on the night of August 27 to 28.
• Ukraine’s ongoing strike campaign targeting Russia’s oil refineries is contributing to gasoline shortages across Russia that will likely raise inflation and cause further macroeconomic instability in Russia.
• The Russian information space responded to the Ukrainian strikes against the Afipsky and Kuibyshev refineries and reiterated concerns about the poor performance of Russia’s air defense systems near critical and military infrastructure.
• Russian intelligence services are likely tracking US and European military supply lines in Europe by conducting reconnaissance operations over NATO territory.
• Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Pokrovsk and in western Zaporizhia Oblast. Russian forces recently advanced in northern Kharkiv Oblast, near Lyman and Pokrovsk, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast.

• CNN: US may supply ERAM missiles to Ukraine already this year
• EU plans fund to channel nearly €200B in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s reconstruction
• Belgium to provide Ukraine with additional €100 million in military aid
• EU chief diplomat revealed what 19th sanctions package against Russia might include
• Russian media identify 220,000 Russian soldiers killed in war against Ukraine
• Portuguese president calls Trump a “Russian agent”
• White House puts Russian attack on Kyiv on a par with drone strikes on Russian oil refineries