WAR IN UKRAINE: August 10, 2023
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 533
The number of people killed as a result of the overnight Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia has increased to three. Nine wounded, including an infant. According to the State Emergency Service, a woman sitting on a bench near a church & a man passing by - were in the epicentre of the explosion & died on the spot. Another 21-year-old woman died in hospital from her injuries
A prisoner believed to have been released early to fight with Wagner mercenaries in Ukraine has been accused of committing a double murder in Russia after returning home from the war. Demyan Kevorkyan, who was given an 18-year prison sentence in 2016, has been arrested for killing a young man and woman on their way home from work. He denies the accusation. The BBC has learned he is not the only convict freed early to fight, pardoned and then accused of reoffending - BBC
Russia and Ukraine each reported shoot-downs of unmanned drones around their respective capital regions overnight on August 10, while the Ukrainian side said a "massive" Russian UAV destroyed an oil depot in the western region of Rivne.
Ukraine's nuclear authority, Enerhoatom, has warned that the Russian-occupied nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhya is on the verge of a blackout because power was cut off from the main high-voltage line to the facility - RFE/RL
The collapse of the Black Sea grain deal and Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure have renewed the threat to the world’s food security from disrupted supplies, as Moscow pushes for a greater share of global grain exports. This escalation “heightens risk and triggers uncertainty”, said Arif Husain, chief economist at the UN World Food Programme. “A single mis-step by either party will have disastrous consequences simply because there is no immediate substitute for all the grain exported by Russia and Ukraine from the Black Sea,” he said - FT
Disgraced Ukrainian parliamentarian Oleksandr Dubinsky says that he has been declared a suspect of the falsification of official documents in a case related to his recent travel abroad. The MP is being investigated for a vacation abroad during wartime, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and State Bureau of Investigation announced on Aug. 3. The authorities believe he traveled under the pretext of accompanying his father for medical treatment outside of Ukraine. However, Dubinsky's father went abroad without him and returned to Ukraine before the lawmaker. According to Ukrainska Pravda, his trip became public when a Health Ministry document requesting his permission to travel was leaked. He was supposed to return by July 10, but at the end of July he was featured in an Instagram post by his girlfriend who was on holiday in Barcelona - Kyiv Independent