Photo: Prosecutor's Office of Kharkiv region
It is day 590 of the war in Ukraine. The Russian army attacked Kharkiv, killing two people and injuring dozens.
Russian authorities reported downing drones in the Belgorod region and the annexed Crimea.
A typhoon on Russia’s Sakhalin island has led to blackouts affecting over 5,000 people and flooded several houses.
Russian tech giant Yandex is expected to lose over $150 mln in an upcoming asset division deal following antiwar comments by its founder Arkady Volozh.
Novaya-Europe’s news roundup will brief you on the main developments overnight.
13:21 UTC+3. Rescuers have pulled another body from the rubble at the attack site in Kharkiv — that of the grandmother of the 10-year-old child that was previously found dead, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry reported. The death toll of Russia’s latest attack on Kharkiv has thus risen to two.
Russia strikes Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Odesa region
The Russian army attacked the centre of Kharkiv on early Friday morning, city mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote.
The strike hit the city’s civilian infrastructure including a residential building, killing a 10-year-old child and injuring 25 people.
Ukrainian air defence downed three Shahed drones over the Odesa region, administration head Oleh Kiper reported, claiming that the UAVs had been targeting the infrastructure of the Port of Izmail. The attack damaged a grain storage facility and several trucks. No injuries have been reported.
Drones downed over Crimea and Russia’s Belgorod region
The Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, reported in the early hours of Friday that units of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet destroyed two marine drones overnight.
The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed that air defence had downed five Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod region. Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov put the number of downed drones at six.
Emergency declared as typhoon hits Sakhalin region
A typhoon has reached the southern areas of Russia’s Sakhalin island in the Far East, including the regional capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, governor Valery Limarenko reported on Friday.
The typhoon damaged 44 power lines and 177 transformer boxes, with blackouts affecting over 2,600 people in the regional capital alone. Across the whole region, this number currently exceeds 5,000, the Sakhalin government reported, adding that the power supply has already been returned to 13,500 residents. Ten buildings have been partially flooded, Limarenko wrote.
Media: Yandex to lose over $150m in asset division deal following founder’s antiwar stance
After Arkady Volozh, founder of Russia’s tech giant Yandex, condemned the invasion of Ukraine, the division of assets between the company’s Russian and international branches is expected to fetch $70-80 million instead of $250 million, several media outlets wrote citing sources.
Following Volozh’s antiwar post, Yandex’ negotiations with the Russian authorities were paused for a month and a half, Frank Media quoted people close to the process as saying. The deal was later renegotiated at a drastically reduced sum.
Experts told Kommersant newspaper that Volozh prioritises the prospect of having EU sanctions against him lifted over the sum of the deal.
On 10 August, Arkady Volozh wrote that he was against “Russia’s barbaric invasion of Ukraine”, thus publicly stating his attitude to the war for the first time. The Financial Times reported in late August that Volozh had requested that EU sanctions against him be lifted.
