Ukraine’s Operational Command South reported on Monday, 5 September, that the Russian 127th regiment of the 1st army corps refused to perform their duties due to a lack of support and poor conditions, including a lack of water, informs Ukrainian media The Kyiv Independent.
The special services of Russian occupying forces took measures against the personnel and removed them from their positions, Ukraine’s military said.
At the same time, the Ukrainian army makes verifiable progress in Ukraine’s south, and east. The Institute for the Study of War reports that Ukrainian troops are advancing in several directions in the western Kherson Oblast and have secured the area across the Siverskyi Donets River in Donetsk Oblast.
According to the experts, the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive will change daily as Ukrainian forces are working to disrupt Russia’s logistical and military capabilities.
Russia continues to sustain losses in southern Ukraine. Operational Command South reports that they killed 104 Russian troops and destroyed six tanks, and 26 armored and military vehicles on Sunday, 4 September. Ukraine’s military also destroyed an ammunition depot and a pontoon crossing and struck a control point and two control and observation points in the south.
Meanwhile, Russian forces shell Sumy Oblast 40 times on Sunday, 4 September. Sumy Oblast Governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky said that the area around Znob–Novgorod suffered the most from Russian attacks, where 15 explosions were heard during the day. Russia allegedly hit the region with mortars and damaged the electricity grid.
Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated three settlements on Monday, 4 September. In a video address, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that one village was de–occupied in Donetsk Oblast and two more in the southern regions of the country. Earlier, officials reported that Ukraine liberated Vysokopillia in Kherson Oblast.
Energy Ministry: Over 600 000 Ukrainians remain without power. According to the ministry, 235 700 Ukrainians have also been left without gas due to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
According to Ukraine’s Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets Russia has illegally deported more than 7 000 Ukrainian children.
He said that Russia is making it difficult to return the children and has even simplified its adoption laws. So far, only 51 children have been returned, he shared. «This is also a violation of international law and a vivid example of the fact that the Russian Federation is committing the genocide of the Ukrainian nation,» Lubinets said.
In the meantime, Russian authorities said the situation around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine was calm on Sunday, 4 September, after UN inspectors said on Saturday it had again lost external power, informs British newspaper The Guardian.
The last remaining main external power line was cut off although a reserve line continued supplying electricity to the grid, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement. Only one of its six reactors remained in operation.