On the 165th day of Russia’s large-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 the events of Sunday, August 7 (Moscow time).

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Murder of Ukrainian POWs in Yelenovka Was Russian special operation against supplying modern Western weapons to Ukraine, and the television movie created by Russian propagandists aimed to destabilize Ukrainian society and demoralize Ukrainian prisoners of war. Andrey Yusov, a representative of Ukraine’s military intelligence, said this on the telethon air from across Ukraine. “From the beginning of this terrible tragedy and farce that we saw from the Russians, this was a fake. From the first reports on the use and deliberate bombing of HIMARS precision weapons, it was a special operation against the supply of Western precision weapons to Ukraine. ”, he believes.

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Adviser to the Head of Administration of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak in an interview with the German edition of Tagesspiegel, urged Berlin to increase the supply of modern weapons. According to him, Ukraine needs the supply of long-range artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems, which will effectively eliminate supply chains and material and technical warehouses from Russian military, drone and air defense systems. “Anti-aircraft systems, such as IRIS-T, which Germany declared that it is ready to supply, to better protect our cities from attacks from the airspace. We need more of them to protect at least Kyiv, Kharkov, Dnipro, Nikolaev and Odessa,” he added. . – said Podolyak. Ukraine, he noted, expects the active participation of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in this matter.

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Russian troops bombed nearby industrial companies Nikolaevsaid the head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim.

Ukrainian intelligence: Forced mobilization in ORDLO

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On August 1, in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions began new wave of forced mobilization Ukrainians for the acquisition of units of the mobilization reserve of the Russian Federation. The Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced this on its Telegram channel. They select people unfit for service and those who have had a “deferral”. Total forced mobilization continues in many settlements, notes the GUR.

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General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine updated data on Russian army losses on the morning of August 7th. According to available information, the loss of personnel amounted to 42,200 people – on the last day, 300 Russian servicemen were destroyed. In addition, three tanks were shot down (1805 – since the beginning of the invasion), five air defense systems were destroyed. Russian troops suffered the main losses in the direction of Donetsk.

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The Chernivtsi region is the only a region in Ukraine where no rockets have landed. According to First Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin, Russian troops carried out more attacks in the Luhansk region: it was bombed four thousand times. The Donetsk region (more than three thousand attacks) and Nikolaevskaya (seven hundred attacks) also suffered greatly.

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Russian troops inflicted attacks on Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, said the mayors of these cities Alexander Goncharenko and Vadim Lyakh. “One busy morning in Kramatorsk – they hit the industrial zone. They also shot at neighboring Slavyansk from the MLRS, hit the private sector. Fortunately, there were no casualties,” Goncharenko said. According to Lyakh, the private sector almost in the center of Slovyansk suffered from the strikes.