The Ukrainian military walked more than 30 km in the day on the way from Sudzhi to Kursk, the Radio Liberty data on the battles in the Kursk region. Also, the Armed Forces, according to these data, overcame about 7 km on the way to Logov. Less than 50 km remained from the closest place to Kursk to Kursk to Kursk. In addition, the distance between the places of battles and the district center of the Ligs was reduced to 10 km, from which civilians began to go massively.

On Thursday, Google first recorded the explicit decline in YouTube traffic in Russia, the diagram from the company’s renewing daily report on transparency. The drop in traffic reflects the interference in the work of the platform, said Mikhail Klimarev, director of the Internet Protection Society. Details. On August 8, the YouTube dynamics was significantly different from all previous days - in the graphics that Google released, there are no day and night peaks of attendance.

For three days of operations in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian military captured several hundred Russian soldiers, and also captured about 100 sq km of territory in the Kursk region. This was reported to The Washington Post by the adviser to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky on the condition of anonymity. According to him, the captured territory Kyiv expects to use during negotiations with Moscow. Details.

Vladimir Putin began to use new euphemisms to designate what was happening in the Kursk region. Talking with the acting governor of the Kursk region Alexei Smirnov, Putin called the battles in the border areas “situation” and “circumstances”. During communication, both Smirnov and Putin carefully avoided military vocabulary, giving a definition of what was happening in the region. Details.

The Rybar Telegram channel, close to the Ministry of Defense, wrote that the military command did not pay attention to reports from the field about the upcoming attack by Ukrainian troops. According to the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel, the deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District, Esedulla Abachev, reported on the preparation of the offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the head of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov. Details .

The battles in the Kursk region are already at the village of Kroma bulls, writes the wire-tone telegram channel "Archangel Special Forces". This village is located 31 km from the border and only 13 km from Logov, in which, according to the 2020 census, 17.5 thousand people live. According to satellite images, a good asphalt road goes through the Krom bulls in the Ligs, which allows you to move at high speed. 27 km from Logov is the city of Kurchatov, where the Kursk NPP is located.

The Chechen units defending the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Kursk region were unable to prevent the advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, since the Ukrainian troops passed by the Chechen strongholds, said the commander of the Akhmat special forces, Apti Alaudinov. The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel and military blogger Yuri Kotenok painted a different picture. According to them, the Chechen units did not offer resistance.

Deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and commander of the Chechen special forces "Akhmat" Apti Alaudinov reported that Russian soldiers were killed during the fighting in the Kursk region.

The Ukrainian forces managed to take almost full control of the city of Suzha, writes the telegram channel "Rybar" close to the Ministry of Defense. This is also evidenced by a video of the shelling of a car with civilians, which was published by the Z-channels. It is fired by a circular interchange east of the city. From the video it is not clear who did it. "Fisherman" writes that Russia retains control of this denouement.

Ex-Governor of the Kursk Region Roman Starovoit inspects the construction of fortifications in Suzhansky district The Armed Forces of Ukraine during a raid in the Kursk region managed to break through two lines of fortifications that the Russian authorities built in 2.5 years of war, spending 15 billion rubles. It took the Ukrainian military for about a day. Details.

The video hosting YouTube has stopped opening for some users in Russia, according to data from monitoring services, media reports, and stories from users themselves. Details . The failures were recorded by the services "Sboi RF" and Brand Analytics . Most of the complaints to both services came from Moscow and St. Petersburg. Also, according to "Sboi RF", problems arose for users from Krasnodar Krai, Bashkortostan, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk regions.

Map: Radio Liberty The Ukrainian military in the morning on Wednesday were in the village of Ivnitsa of the Kursk region, the Two Majors telegram channel said . According to the channel, there were six or seven tanks in the village. Another Z-channel “MiG of Russia” said that small groups of the Ukrainian military are trying to cut the Suda-Legs route in the area of ​​the village of Anastasievka. “Two Maigors” write that there was a shooting battle in this village.

The Ukrainian military controls part of the Sudzhi, and in the city there are battles, including with the involvement of armored vehicles, Russian military channels write. According to some reports, the Ukrainian military appeared already in the area of ​​the city railway station, and this is the eastern part of the city.