[UPDATE – Aug 31st, 2024] Ukraine – Russia WAR: Situation on the Ground – August 2024, 2/2

💥D917-Aug 28th 00:00Z:  The Russian forces have carried out a series of strikes on AFU facilities across Ukraine, including airfields in several regions and a hotel in Kryvyi Rih, which was allegedly housing officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and citizens of English-speaking countries. The situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Pokrovsk is rapidly deteriorating. Russian troops already control most of Novogrodovka, and the liberation of its northern part is a matter of the near future. The AFU is retreating towards Mirnograd, leaving a rearguard on the northern outskirts of the city on…