Seven dead in Pokrovsk and a report on the problems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a counterattack. The main thing about the war by August 8

In Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, the number of those killed from the Russian blow to seven people grew, and the victims exceeded 80 people. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General’s Office comment on the arson of military enlistment offices provoked by telephone scammers. The New York Times conveys what problems the Armed Forces of Ukraine face with a counterattack. We tell the main thing about what is happening at the front and around it by August 8.

• Russian troops on the evening of August 7 struck the city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. It is known about the seven dead, including the 52-year-old deputy head of the regional department of the State Emergencies of Ukraine Andrei Omelchenko , one military and five civilians.
• According to the latest data from local authorities, at least 81 people received injuries in Pokrovsk, including 39 civilians, including two children, 31 policemen, seven employees of the State Emergencies Ministry and four military.
• The Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs commented on the arson of military enlistment offices provoked by calls of telephone scammers. The departments said that scammers are calling from the territory of Ukraine and mainly choose victims of older Russians. The security forces note that the calls were massive in nature and in time coincided with the dates of successful advancement ”of the RF Armed Forces at the front.
• Despite the confirmation of the involvement of fraudsters in arson, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs threatened the victims of scammers with criminal prosecution under articles about the attack and sabotage: for the arson of the military registration and enlistment office, under the qualification, threatens up to 20 years in prison.
• During the war, Russia could devastate the largest warehouse of Soviet armored vehicles at 40 %, which is located in Buryatia, writes The Moscow Times with reference to the Google Earth satellite pictures.
• The New York Times issued a report on the course of the Ukrainian counter -offset - the publication correspondents spent two weeks on the border of the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya regions. From the report it follows that the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffer heavy losses.
• “Many thought it would be very fast and in the fall we would be in the Crimea. But each meter is very complicated, ”the publication quoted the commander of one of the battalions. Among the Ukrainian military, journalists write, there is dissatisfaction with the use of recruits and "unverified" units in the vanguard and not suitable for the war in Ukraine by Western equipment.
• "Cold" found out that in the military unit near Moscow, several dozen former prisoners returned from Ukrainian captivity have been sitting for two months. According to the publication, they selected phones, forbade them to walk and transfers after one of the military who was there said that he was not provided with therapy necessary for HIV infection.

Photo on the cover: Pavel Kirilenko