Explosion in Kherson near Russian military base, the death of collaborator in Zaporizhzhia: last night's highlights

Powerful explosions in Kherson near the Russian military base. Russia-appointed “head of the police” was found dead in the temporarily occupied village in the Zaporizhzhia region. IAEA assembled a team of experts to visit the Zaporizhzhia NPP. Here's what you may have missed from the previous night.

Powerful explosions were reported in Kherson near the correctional colony No. 90, where the Russian occupiers had set up a military base. There was likely also an ammunition warehouse on the territory of this colony.

Locals also reported a strong fire in the industrial zone, where the occupiers housed their equipment and personnel. Kherson's mass media says that Russian forces suffered losses due to the attack.

Collaborator and Russia-appointed “head of the police” Andriy Ryzhkov was found dead in the temporarily occupied village of Mykhailivka in the Zaporizhzhia region, says Zaporizhzhia Military Administration. Ryzhkov was once a Ukrainian border guard, but after the start of a full-scale war, he went over to the side of the Russian occupiers.

Russian troops have been shelling the Dnipropetrovsk region on August 27 with cannon artillery, and rockets. The shelling damaged the administrative building and two high-rise buildings in Nikopol, and two dozen buildings and a power line were damaged in the Marganets community,

Russian forces fired more than 220 shells and mines at the Sumy region in the past day, injuring two people and damaging the entire infrastructure was damaged in one of the villages.

The IAEA assembles a list of experts for a mission to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The visit is planned for the next week. The New York Times reports the team includes the IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi and 13 other experts from mostly neutral countries. 
The mission includes experts from Poland and Lithuania but also from Serbia and China, which keep close relations with Moscow. The other members, like Albania, France, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, and North Macedonia, have mostly stood on the sidelines of the war in Ukraine or have kept channels open with the Kremlin.

A bus traveling on the Ukraine-Turkey route overturned in Romania on the night of August 27. There were 43 passengers on the bus, including other adults and children, mostly Ukrainians. 23 of them were taken to the hospital for medical assistance. None of the victims is in serious condition.

The car of an official of the Russian General Staff was set on fire in Moscow. A woman who spoke against a "special military operation" is accused of arson.

The damaged car of an official of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, August 27, 2022 / Photo: BAZA

The Ukrainian aviation made 3 strikes on two enemy strongholds and on the area of ​​concentration of Russian personnel, weapons, and equipment in the Kherson region. During the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Russian field supply point, two ammunition depots, 35 service members and 11 pieces of equipment in the south, reports Operational Command South.

Kazakhstan suspends arms exports for a year. Earlier, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev expressed his concern that Kazakh weapons could get into "regional military conflicts" amidst Russia's war against Ukraine.