![]() The researchers said they identified laws and tactics used to make it impossible for residents to survive in their homes unless they accept Russian citizenship. ![]() The report was released by the Conflict Observatory program at Yale University's School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab. Every inch of Ukraine’s territory is and will remain Ukraine,” Miller said. “State-sanctioned intimidation will not change the facts. Miller said Ukrainians living under Russian occupation “are and will remain" Ukrainian citizens. The tactic, which Miller said Russia has used before in Georgia, also provides pretext to further advance the Kremlin’s “imperial ambitions.” “Some parents have been threatened with losing custody of their children and possible deportation to Russia,” Miller said. Parents of children born in occupied parts of Ukraine who refuse to register their children for Russian citizenship face even greater difficulties, including reduced access to parental benefits, he said. “Those who refuse to do so face limited access to public services, employment, and property ownership with implications for their mobility, health, and livelihoods.” “The report details a disturbing campaign to compel residents to adopt Russian citizenship,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. The research says residents of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya regions are being targeted by a systematic effort to strip them of Ukrainian identity. The Ukrainian Culture Ministry plans to have the Ukrainian trident instead of the old Soviet coat of arms on the statue by Independence Day on August 24. WATCH: The Ukrainian capital has completed dismantling the Soviet emblem from the Motherland Monument towering in the center of the city. Russian forces had "tried quite persistently to halt our advance in the Bakhmut sector. Ukrainian forces were making gradual advances in the Bakhmut area of Donetsk, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said on Telegram. Staromayorske was recaptured by Ukrainian forces on July 27. On the battlefield, Ukrainian forces repelled counterattacks by Russian troops in the area of Staromayorske in the Donetsk region, the media center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on August 3. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to abstain from moves that would exacerbate tensions, Erdogan's office said after the two leaders held a phone call. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Russia has destroyed 180,000 tons of grain inside Ukraine, including 40,000 tons destroyed on August 2, since refusing to extend the grain deal. Heavy Fighting In Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine (updated weekly) On August 2, more than 10 drones were shot down over Kyiv, with the debris causing some damage in parts of the city.Īlso on August 2, Russian drone strikes damaged grain facilities at the Ukrainian ports of Izmayil and Odesa. ![]() Kyiv was under an air-raid alert for three hours, until 4 a.m., Popko said, adding that this was the 820th air-raid alert for the capital since the beginning of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. "Almost a dozen were detected and destroyed by the air defense on the approach to Kyiv," Popko said, adding that "according to our current information, there were no victims or destruction in the capital." ![]() Eight consecutive attacks of Shahed drones on Kyiv," regional Governor Serhiy Popko said on Telegram. "Again, like yesterday, the wave of attacks was massive. The drone attack on Kyiv was repelled without causing damage or casualties according to preliminary information, the region's governor said early on August 3. Kherson, which was liberated by Ukrainian troops in November, has been repeatedly targeted by Russian shelling from the left bank of the Dnieper River.Ī Russian missile attack on August 1 hit a hospital in Kherson, killing a doctor and injuring several medical workers. An elderly man is in critical condition, Tolokonnikov said.įour members of rescue teams that rushed to put out a fire at the cathedral following the first attack were wounded in a second shelling of the site, Ukraine's Interior Ministry said in a statement. In the first incident, a passing trolleybus was hit and three people were wounded. Catherine Cathedral and the surrounding area twice during the morning hours, Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, a spokesman of the regional military administration told RFE/RL. For all of RFE/RL's coverage of the war in Ukraine, click here. RFE/RL's Live Briefinggives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensive, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. ![]()
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