At one of the power units of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which came under fire yesterday, emergency protection went off. The Ukrainian plant operator Energoatom reported that the power unit was switched off. The Ukrainian personnel of the nuclear power plant continue to service it, but the company believes that the plant is now “operating with the risk of violating radiation and fire safety standards”, and the risks of fires, hydrogen leakage and radioactive spraying remain.

Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took place in Sochi on August 5. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, also took part in them. According to Erdogan, at this meeting he "once again reminded" Putin of Turkey's readiness to provide a platform for a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Russian and Ukrainian sides have not yet commented on this proposal.

The Military Ombudsman project reported that the detention center for Russian servicemen who refused to participate in hostilities in Ukraine was closed. This was said by the soldiers who had previously managed to escape from the isolation ward. Some refuseniks were taken away and taken to the rear by their commanders, others were released and are not being prevented from leaving for Russia.

The Ukrainian authorities of Mariupol reported that the occupying authorities were preparing to hold a show trial over the defenders of the city, and for this they were collecting cages from reinforcement in the local philharmonic society.

Bulgaria will continue issuing visas to Russian citizens, including tourists and property owners in the country, the Bulgarian embassy told TASS. Yesterday, the Russian Association of Tour Operators wrote that due to the expulsion of Bulgarian diplomats, the acceptance of documents for visas was suspended. “At the moment, due to technical reasons, we are working in an unusual mode, the terms for providing services are longer than usual, but we are working,” the embassy said.

The head of the Ukrainian office of Amnesty International Oksana Pokalchuk left her post. She published a statement on Facebook, where she explained her dismissal by disagreeing with the position of the organization. Earlier, the Ukrainian authorities withdrew the accreditations of Amnesty International employees.

Chairman of the Nikolaev Regional Council Anna Zamazeeva told Ukrainian journalists how the large-scale campaign to identify and capture collaborators and gunners of Russian artillery is going. According to her, "all residents of Nikolaev" are being tested. “They go straight to the apartments - they check each one, they check documents and mobile phones - they check everything,” Zamazeeva said.

An attempt was made on the life of the deputy head of the Russian occupation administration in Nova Kakhovka, Vitaly Guru, he is in the hospital "in a very serious condition," Russian media reported. According to them, he was shot at the house with a Makarov pistol. Gura later died in intensive care. Before the war, Gura was the headman of the Dnepryansky district of the Novokakhovskaya urban territorial community.

Sergey Mardan, radio host of Komsomolskaya Pravda, called on the air to “arrange a small local Zaporozhye Gulag in the steppe under the scorching sun for teachers who have not yet learned to love our beautiful homeland.” This is how he reacted to the words of his interlocutor that half of the teachers in the occupied part of Zaporozhye refuse to go to work.

The Insider and Bellingcat said they were able to identify a member of the Russian detachment from a video of a Ukrainian prisoner being cut off his genitals. The Insider named him Ochur-Suge Mongush, born in 1993. He fought as a mercenary in the Chechen Akhmat battalion.

Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak thanked North Macedonia for the tanks and aircraft provided to the country. “It doesn't matter what size your country is or how much GDP it has, what matters is what kind of heart you have. Many nations today show more courage than half of the G20,” he tweeted. The fact that North Macedonia handed over four Su-25 attack aircraft to Ukraine was reported by the North Macedonian media on August 4.

"I can't think in Ukrainian" Olga Kachura was born in Donetsk in 1970 into a hereditary military family: as she said in an interview for the Federal News Agency, there are 12 generations of military personnel among her close relatives, so there was no question of choosing a profession for her. “Everyone was born and raised in the military,” she said in an interview in 2015.