At night, the Russians intensively shelled the Nikopol and Synelnikov districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Damaged residential buildings. Shops, workshops, administrative premises, and cars were destroyed at three enterprises.

     **** Analysts of the Institute for the Study of War write that Russia can use units consisting of prison inmates, to control the population in the occupied parts of Ukraine. These units are more cruel to the population of the captured territories than professional Russian soldiers.

       ***** At night, the Russians launched rocket attacks on Kharkiv. The hotel and restaurant complex and elements of the transport infrastructure were damaged.

      **** During the day, Ukrainian troops stopped 10 attempts by Russians to storm towns and villages in Luhansk and Donetsk regions. In the Donetsk region, Maryanka was shelled - 3 dead, 19 wounded. Mandatory evacuation continues in the region.

        **** On the morning of August 8 near Uman, Ukrainian air defenses shot down a Russian missile. Its debris fell on a civil enterprise, a fire broke out. Two people were injured. One of the victims died in hospital.

     ***** In Crimea, at the Russian airbase near the city of Saka, a series of powerful explosions. The Russians said they had been detonated ammunition. One dead and 5 wounded are reported. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense stated that they do not know the cause of the explosions. The distance of the airbase from the Ukrainian positions is approximately 200 km.

         ***** Russia began disconnecting the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant from the Ukrainian power system, and began the process of connecting it to its own system.