Dismissal of all regional military recruitment office commanders, missile strike on Ukraine: highlights
All regional military recruitment office commanders will be dismissed, new ones will be recruited from among combatants. A Russian missile hit a house in Ivano—Frankivsk Oblast, killing a child. We have collected the main news for the day.
Dismissal of regional military commissars
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine recommended that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi appoint officers who are directly involved in hostilities to the positions of heads of regional military enlistment offices.
On August 11, a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine was held under the chairmanship of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The participants discussed, among other things, the results of the inspection of military enlistment offices.
In total, 112 criminal proceedings have been opened against military enlistment office officials, and 33 charges have been served on military enlistment officers of regional, city, and district military commissariats, employees of the military medical commission, and other officials.
Zelenskyy noted that it had been decided to dismiss all regional military commissars.
Missile attack
Explosions were heard in the capital and Kyiv Oblast at around 10 a.m. The Air Force recorded the launch of Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from MiG-31K aircraft. Air defense was in operation. Missile fragments fell on the grounds of a children's hospital in the Obolonskyi district of the capital. There were no victims or damage.
The prosecutor's office reported that one of the missiles hit a residential building in Kolomyia district, where a family with three children lived. An 8-year-old boy died as a result of the attack. Information about other victims is being clarified.
Russian occupation forces launched four Kh-47 Kinzhal missiles at Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to hit the military airfield in Kolomyia and young pilots who will soon go to Europe for training, said Yuriy Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, during the national telethon.
The case of low-quality military uniforms
Law enforcement officers have pressed charges against the director of a contractor that provided low-quality military uniforms worth more than UAH 35 million ($950,000), the Interior Ministry reported. Three direct contracts were signed with the winner of public procurement. He was supposed to supply uniforms worth more than UAH 35 million, which he did.
However, during laboratory tests, experts found that the uniforms did not meet the technical requirements and could not be used for their intended purpose.
The Ministry of Defense stated that it was not involved in this procurement process. "For our part, we emphasize that the ministry professes zero tolerance for corruption," the statement said.
Other news
- The Ministry of Reintegration denies the elimination of the position of the Commissioner for Missing Persons.
- 50 new cameras for recording traffic violations have been installed in Ukraine.
- Ex-leader of the Communists in Ukraine Petro Symonenko has been charged.
- The number of suicides among officers has increased in Russia, Ukraine's Defense Intelligence reports.
- A water leak occurred at the fourth reactor of the occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. The occupation administration is to blame, according to the state NPP operator Energoatom.
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