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10 August 2022
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August 2022 in brief
A Russian missile destroyed a dormitory in Kharkiv, where Meduza, citing Ukrainian officials, reported 17 dead across the city overnight, and a strike on Chaplyne on Independence Day killed 25 according to a presidential aide; Russia's defence ministry said it hit foreign fighters and a military train, which Ukrainian officials denied. [1][2] WHO recorded attacks on health care including health facilities in Chuhuiv and Balakliya. [1][2] Shelling damaged equipment at the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, with Russia and Ukraine blaming each other, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi called the situation very alarming, and on 25 August the plant was cut from Ukraine's grid for the first time. [1][2] Explosions destroyed aircraft at the Saky air base in occupied Crimea, which Russia's defence ministry said was a detonation of munitions and not an attack, and an ammunition depot near Dzhankoi exploded in what Russian authorities called sabotage. [1][2] Ukraine said it had begun offensive operations in the south, including Kherson oblast, which Russia's defence ministry said had failed, and Putin ordered the armed forces enlarged by 137,000 service members. [1][2] The Razoni became the first grain ship to leave Odesa under the Black Sea deal, carrying about 26,000 tonnes of corn, and Gazprom stopped gas flows through Nord Stream 1 at the end of the month for what it called maintenance. [1][2] Commentator Darya Dugina was killed by a car bomb near Moscow; Russia's FSB said Ukrainian special services were behind it, which Kyiv denied, and the UN Secretary-General announced a fact-finding mission into the Olenivka prison deaths. [1][4]