Russia-Ukraine War Update for August 16, 2022

The Malcontent News Russia-Ukraine War Update is a truth-based, fact-checked update on events happening on and off the battlefield in Ukraine. Our team reviews hundreds of sources of information a day to help you stay informed. Today's update with your host Linnea Hubbard, covers:

• Russians launch a renewed offensive in northeast Donetsk
• OPSEC Fail 1 - the HIMARS attack on PMC Wagner Group HQ causes 100+ casualties
• Chechen fighters reappear in Ukraine - maybe
• Offense to capture Bakhmut restarts with renewed ferocity
• Russians blow up a bridge in Luhanske
• Pisky is captured but...
• Russian forces appear to give up trying to capture Kamyanka, Avdiivka, and Marinka
• Large Russian offensive launched in southern Ukraine
• Russian Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopter shot down
• Ukrainian insurgents knock Russian state media TV off the air in Melitopol
• Kharkiv experience the worst night of shelling and missile attacks since May
• Russians recapture Zelenyi Hai near Kherson and...
• Try to push Ukraine from their Inhulets River bridgehead
• Russians stonewall IAEA and UN requests to inspect Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
• OPSEC Fail 2 - Ammo depot in Russian-controlled Crimea destroyed
• Latvia donates helicopters to Ukraine
• OPSEC Fail 3 - Russian TOR-2 operators show procedures and operations in a TikTok video
• Russian Ministry of Defense reminds the world they have nuclear weapons - again
• Ukrainian students attacked by Russian and Belarusian in Switzerland
• Russian tennis players in the United States needed a safe space from a Ukrainian flag
• A bad economic report from China sends oil plummeting

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