Russian troops that are advancing towards Kyiv from the [Chernobyl] Exclusion Zone, were stopped near the town of Ivankiv, where Ukraine’s defense forces have blown up a bridge.
Source: UP’s contacts in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A state inspector of the customs clearance department of Chaplynka checkpoint was arrested in Kherson oblast on allegations of bribery, the Security Service of Ukraine reported on August 27.
Officials of a state-run company in Chernihivska Oblast transferred ₴1.8 million ($72,000) to private companies to build fortifications on the Ukraine-Russia border (the so-called ‘The Wall’ project), but the necessary construction was not completed.
On the night of August 11, Russian Special Services again blocked the border crossing on the administrative border between Crimea and Ukraine’s mainland.
The occupying Russian authorities have fully restored border crossings at all three checkpoints on the administrative border with Crimea, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports.