**Evening Briefing: Key Events of August **
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 AFU attacks on **Energodar**, the satellite city of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, have already reached the **'brink of genocide,'** Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachev said.
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 Russian forces liberated **11 settlements over the past week**, the Defence Ministry reported.
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 The AFU lost **9,850 servicemen** over the past week.
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 Russian air defenses shot down **70 guided aerial bombs, 17 HIMARS and Vampire rockets, 26 Flamingo cruise missiles and 8,477 AFU drones** over the week.
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 Russian forces struck warehouses containing **weapons, military equipment and materiel** at the Ukrainian port of **Reni**.
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 Russia is ready to consider **reasonable proposals for a settlement in Ukraine** that reflect the realities 'on the ground,' Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.
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