The Ukrainian command has deployed the most combat-ready units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the breakthrough to the Kursk region, choosing the weakest section of the Russian border for the attack. This is reported by The Economist magazine, citing sources in the Ukrainian General Staff. "We sent our most combat-ready units to the weakest point on their border. The conscripts, confronted by the paratroopers, simply surrendered," one of the publication's sources said.

What should I consider myself shit now? During the war in public space, people with polar positions are most noticeable: those who actively opposed and after that ended up in exile either in the colony, and Z-activists who support the invasion. The “cold” gives the floor to a representative of the silent anti-war layer of Russians, 24-year-old Ksenia from Chelyabinsk, who discusses how life is felt in modern Russia, why she does not dare to emigrate and whom she would like to see the president.

Operation in Russia can stretch for weeks. What are the Armed Forces of Ukraine and what will happen next? For a week, the Armed Forces have been conducting fighting in Russian territory. For the invasion of the Kursk region, Ukraine sent its most combat -ready units. The main goal is to distract Russian forces from other directions and try to destabilize the political situation within Russia.

About 135 Russian telecom operators reported to the Ministry of Digital Development and Roskomnadzor about a multiple increase in the number of clients filing complaints due to the poor performance of YouTube and Google. Subscribers began to terminate contracts by the thousands, say businessmen. Letters were sent to the departments by the Rosteleset Association and the Association of Small Telecom Operators of the Regions, Kommersant, which reviewed the documents, reported .

The Telegram channel Bravo Team has published two videos recorded by Ukrainian military personnel from a special forces unit, which they claim is located in the center of the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region. "Sudzha is under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, glory to all the brigades and battalions that took part in this!" - says the caption to one of the videos.

Telegram channel administrators were unable to publish new posts. When attempting to publish a new post, an error message appeared. This was reported by the Telegram Info channel. This is also evidenced by data from the DownDetector platform, which records user complaints about the messenger. Reports of failure came from various countries, including Russia, Serbia, Georgia and Uzbekistan. Some time after Telegram Info published the error, the message in the Telegram channel was edited.

A pensioner from St. Petersburg, Viktor Lukyanov, who is called the kindest conductor in the city, was beaten up by his neighbor because he collected aluminum cans and handed them in for scrap metal. Fontanka reported this. "These neighbors, a man and his wife, live on the same floor as me. They came up with the idea that I was dragging trash and dirt to my place, which is supposedly why there is a smell in the vestibule. And I have been collecting cans for a long time, for 24 years.

It is she who was fastened with power vertical, and she is the reason for the successful invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region While the Armed Forces are captured by all new territories in the Kursk region, and the head of the General Staff assures that “the enemy will be pushed”, the chicken is recorded by the video with requests to Putin for help.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces control 28 settlements in the Kursk region. During the invasion, 12 civilians were killed, 121 people were injured, including ten children. This was stated by the acting governor of the region Alexey Smirnov during a meeting with Vladimir Putin. “Twenty-eight settlements are located in this zone, that’s about two thousand people, whose fate we don’t know,” he noted.

The sudden invasion of Ukrainian regular troops into the Kursk region has embarrassed Vladimir Putin and raised Ukrainian morale, but continuing the operation may be too risky for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, White House sources and military experts have suggested to The Wall Street Journal. The Ukrainian leadership, WSJ sources are sure, must now decide whether to use a lot of troops and equipment on Russian territory, given the lack of combat-ready units in the east of their country.

Since the beginning of 2024, Russians have crossed the border of North Korea 915 times, according to data from the FSB Border Service, published by the Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistical System (EMISS). This was brought to the attention of Mediazona. The publication writes that this is a record number of trips to the DPRK over the past 15 years, when Russian citizens indicated a business trip as the purpose of their visit.

Rosreestr has developed a list of conditions under which the authorities will be able to take away land plots from individual owners. RBC writes about the details of the draft government resolution. The authorities note that there are lands in the country that "have not been used for years or even decades," Rosreestr explained. Abandoned buildings stand on such plots. The land there "is overgrown with hogweed, dumps are formed," and children and young people go there for walks.

Acting Governor of Kursk Region Alexey Smirnov published a video on his Telegram channel with a modified track of the Shaman song "I am Russian". Instead of the words "I am Russian" in the video, "I am Kursk" is heard. The video consists of footage of emergency services providing assistance to refugees from the Kursk region, distribution of humanitarian aid, donors donating blood, and solidarity actions with residents of the attacked Russian territories that took place in other regions.

State Duma deputy Andrei Gurulev criticized the Russian military command for organizing the defense of the border in the Kursk region and the poor provision of military units located there. He published a post about this on his Telegram channel. In it, the deputy writes that his wife is from the Kursk region, so after the Ukrainian invasion of the region began, he had to go there to “take out the old people.” According to Gurulev, he saw how minefields were being set up in the Kursk region.

A helicopter crashed into a hotel in the Australian city of Cairns, which is located in the northern part of the state of Queensland. One person died and two others were injured, the ABC television channel reports , citing local police. A small helicopter, which can accommodate up to four people, reportedly crashed into the roof of the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel on the night of August 12. The impact broke off its blades and landed in and around the pool. A fire broke out in the building.