On the 163rd day of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops continue their attempts to capture the neighboring country’s settlements. Ukraine’s armed forces and territorial defense units resist aggression. It is impossible to verify the statements of representatives of both sides of the conflict from independent sources. According to the UN, about 14 million Ukrainians have already left their homes. DW is following developments on Friday, August 5 (Moscow time).

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Ukrainian military records “certain buildup” of enemy troops in the area Krivoy Rog, said the head of the city’s military administration Alexander Vilkul during the informational telethon. “We have built a defense in deep layers,” he said, according to UNIAN, “we are ready for any development of events.”

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The Russian army uses Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the adjacent Energodar territories for the rest of its troops, in order to reduce the risk of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the station has the status of a protected installation, it believes. UK intelligence. The message from the British Ministry of Defense indicates that Russia’s intentions towards the ZNPP remain unclear. At the same time, your actions at the facility likely undermined the safety and reliability of normal plant operation. The report emphasizes that Russian forces likely used artillery units based in these areas to bomb Ukrainian territory on the western bank of the Dnieper.

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Ukrainian authorities demand expansion Grain export transactions across the Black Sea and the inclusion of other Ukrainian products in it. The agreement deals with logistics, the movement of ships in the Black Sea, so in particular, iron ore could be exported from Ukraine in the same way, Taras Kachka, Ukraine’s deputy economy minister, told the Financial Times. On August 1, the first freighter with Ukrainian grain left the port of Odessa, two days later it was dispatched in Istanbul and headed for Lebanon. An agreement on the export of Ukrainian food by sea was concluded in Istanbul at the end of July.

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The Turkish Defense Ministry reported that three ships with Ukrainian grain, which were waiting to leave Ukrainian ports, went to sea – the dry cargo ships Polarnet and Rojen stationed in Chornomorsk headed respectively to Karasu (Turkey) and for the British Teezport and Navistar left the port of Odessa with corn destined to land at Ringaskiddy in Ireland. In total, there are more than 58,000 tons of corn on board these ships.

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AT THE Nikolaev powerful explosions thundered in the morning, said the city’s mayor Alexander Senkevich. He asked residents not to leave their homes and to stay away from windows.

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according to the data General Staff of the Armed Forces of UkraineRussian troops pass the Donbass offensive operation in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions. In addition, bombings were carried out overnight in the regions of Odessa and Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Nikopol, Kharkov, Chernihiv, Sumy and other regions, according to the morning report.

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Ukraine will likely intercept strategic initiative and forces Russia to redeploy forces and shift priorities in response to Ukrainian counter-offensive operations, says latest report Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Analysts note that Russian forces are increasingly moving personnel and equipment to the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, to the detriment of their efforts to take Slovyansk and Siversk, which they appear to have abandoned. “Ukraine’s preparations for the counteroffensive at Kherson and the initial operations of this counteroffensive, combined with the sharp weakening of Russian forces in general, appear to allow Ukraine for the first time to begin to actively determine the course of the war.” , said ISW.

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Ukrainian Armed Forces in the south of the country during the 4th of August, three Russian trains with ammunition were destroyed – in Pridneprovsky, Kherson and Tokarevka, reported the Operational Command “South”. It was precisely established that 39 invaders, 4 S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, the Ginger radar station, the Vasilek 82 caliber automatic mortar, 9 armored and automotive vehicles were eliminated, the command says.

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The Joint Coordination Center (JCC) in Istanbul has given permission to pass through the maritime humanitarian corridor three ships with 58,041 tons of maize from Ukraine, according to the UN news centre. All three ships are scheduled to set sail on Friday morning, but the dates could change due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances, the UN said. “The dry cargo ship Polarnet, moored in the port of Chornomorsk, will proceed to Karasu, Turkey. The ship Navistar will leave the port of Odessa with corn destined for unloading in Ringaskiddy, Ireland. The dry cargo ship Rojen, moored in Chernomorsk , will proceed to British Teesport,” – specified in the message. In Istanbul, on July 22, with the participation of the UN, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine, an agreement was signed on the export of grain from Ukraine.

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In the Baltic Sea, from 8 to 19 August, joint exercises by the US and Finnish navies. To participate in them on Friday, the USS Kearsarge, a large US Navy landing ship, will arrive in Helsinki harbor. On August 8, he, accompanied by the US ships USS Arlington and USS Gunston Hall, will go to the northern part of the Baltic Sea, as well as to the southern region of the country of Hanko, where maneuvers will be carried out. From Finland, troops and ships from the Naval Headquarters, the Uudenmaa brigade and the coast guard participate in them. During the exercises, the development of interoperability and compatibility of the two countries’ armed forces will be worked on, including support for Finland as a host country for NATO troops. Troop transfer operations will be supported by Finnish Air Force Hornet fighters as well as US Chinook and Blackhawk helicopters.

The US Senate voted on Wednesday for Finland to join NATO. The United States became the 23rd state in the alliance after Finland and Sweden applied to join the alliance on May 18.

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leaving the office Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk urged the authorities of the city of Berlin to reconsider their decision on the display of Russian military equipment destroyed in the war in Ukraine, the Tagesspiegel newspaper reported. The authorities turned down the request of two museum operators who were willing to organize an exhibition in front of the Russian Embassy in central Berlin. “The Russian military equipment destroyed at the exhibition would allow people in Germany to experience the brutal war of annihilation with their own eyes,” Melnik told the publication. According to him, “Ukrainians are shocked that the Mitte district authorities have rejected the request.” He called the decision “a real scandal”. An exhibition of Russian military equipment destroyed in Ukraine was previously held in Warsaw, Wroclaw and Prague.

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more on friday three ships with Ukrainian grain will leave Ukraine’s seaports, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said in a meeting with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov and Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov.

EU imposes new sanctions on Yanukovych

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European Union imposed new sanctions against former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his son Alexander “in response to the Russian Federation’s continued unjustified and unprovoked military aggression against Ukraine”. Alexander Yanukovych, according to the EU, carries out commercial activities in the territory of Donbass not controlled by Kyiv, in particular in the energy, coal, construction, banking and real estate sectors and has “close ties with pro-Russian separatists”.

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in his video speech in the evening, he sharply criticized the report by the human rights organization Amnesty International, which says the Ukrainian army creates military bases and deploys military equipment in residential areas, putting civilians in danger. Zelensky chided the AI ​​for “trying to forgive the terrorist state and shifting responsibility from the perpetrator to the victim”. Those who make such connections must admit to themselves that they are “helping terrorists,” he said.

“There is not and cannot be a hypothetical condition under which any Russian attack on Ukraine is justified … what the aggressor was doing at that time is ignored, so it cannot be tolerated,” the president said. Zelensky recalled that around 200 religious buildings, 900 medical institutions and more than 2,200 educational institutions were damaged or destroyed by Russian attacks.

“Any attempt to question Ukraine’s right to resist genocide, defend their families and homes, protect their lives and the lives of their children, resist Russia’s actions as a terrorist state is a perversion,” said Ukrainian Defense Minister, Oleksiy. Reznikov wrote on Facebook.

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