On the 164th 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 continues to monitor developments on Saturday, August 6 (Moscow time).

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Russian Defense Ministry in his daily report he declares the destruction of two Ukrainian SU-25s in an air battle in the Solntsevo region of the Kirovohrad region and another Su-25 in the Radgospnoe region of the Kherson region. It is also alleged that an Alder MLRS platoon and American HIMARS were liquidated near Kharkov, a large Ukrainian Armed Forces fuel depot was destroyed near Zaporozhye, and Russian Federation air and artillery attacks on Ukrainian army positions in the regions of Kherson and Dnepropetrovsk.

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Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) claims that it stopped the activities of the Russian intelligence network that collected information on the deployment and movement of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Pokrovsky district of the Donetsk region. According to the intelligence service, two attackers carried out reconnaissance and sabotage activities in the Nikolaev region: they collected and transmitted intelligence to the enemy about important infrastructure facilities, fuel depots, deployment and movement of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As a result of the actions of the agent network, several objects of the city’s shipbuilding infrastructure were destroyed and damaged, including the Ecuador, Kristall, Okean plants, warehouses with fuel and lubricants and social infrastructure facilities were destroyed, the SBU said. Currently, all detainees have been declared suspected of committing crimes against the security of the state of Ukraine. The question of choosing a restraining measure in the form of detention is being decided.

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