On the 174th 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 Tuesday, August 16 (Moscow time).

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The current political situation has negatively affected some aspects military-technical cooperation between Russia and Turkey. The announcement was made by the head of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS), Dmitry Shugaev, responding to a question about the reasons for the delay in negotiations on the supply of the second S-400 regiment to Turkey.

Ammunition depot and burning substation in Crimea

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The Kryminform agency reported two incidents in the Dzhankoy district – a fire at a transformer substation and detonations in the ammunition depot in the village of Maiskoe. Villagers are urgently evacuated.

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In Crimea, near the village of Maiskoye, not far from Dzhankoy, an explosion occurred. According to preliminary data, a fire broke out on the territory of the transformer substation. The power structures of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula told RIA Novosti that Transformer substation in Dzhankoy caught fire “after a loud bang.” The substation “Dzhankoy” is considered one of the main power centers of the Crimean peninsula.

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Finland seeks introduction ban on obtaining Schengen visas by citizens of the Russian Federation for tourist purposes of entry into the EU. Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin reaffirmed her position at the summit of heads of government of the five Scandinavian countries with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Oslo. “Russian citizens did not start the war, but at the same time, we must clearly understand that they support the war,” Marin said. “I don’t think it’s right for Russian citizens to enter the EU, the Schengen area, and do tourism while Russia kills people in Ukraine,” stressed the Finnish chief of staff.

Marin’s views are shared by her Danish colleague Mette Frederiksen. The German chancellor, for her part, defends the refusal of a total ban on entry, referring to Russians who are fleeing the country, fleeing the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “All the decisions we make must not complicate the process of gaining freedom and leaving the country to escape the dictator in Russia,” Scholz said. “This is not a Russian people’s war, this is Putin’s war,” he said.

Freezing Russian Assets in Canada

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From the beginning of the war in Ukraine until August 9 in Canada frozen Russian assets worth 122.3 million Canadian dollars (93.2 million euros). This data was provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In addition, during this period, financial transactions of 290.7 million Canadian dollars (221.6 million euros) were blocked in accordance with the law on special economic measures towards Russia. Law enforcement agencies have indicated that they regularly receive new information so that the data can be changed at a later date.

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Russian troops launched a series of ground attacks northwest of Slovyansk as well as assault operations north of Kharkov, new report says American Institute for the Study of War (ISW). In addition, the Russian Armed Forces carried out several offensive operations east and southeast of Seversk, northeast and southeast of Bakhmut, and also continued offensive operations northwest, west and southwest of Donetsk, experts said.

Rocket bombing of Kharkov

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Five of the nine districts Kharkov – Industrial, Kyiv, Saltovsky, Kholodnogorsky and Shevchenkovsky – were bombed at night, said Mayor Igor Terekhov. “It’s been a long time since there was a missile impact radius in the city,” the mayor said. There is still no information about the victims. In some places, infrastructure and other facilities, as well as roads, were destroyed, Terekhov added.

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Zaporozhye NPP (file photo)

Deliver an expert mission international atomic energy agency (IAEA) for the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant through Kyiv is not safe, says Igor Vishnevetsky, deputy director of the Department of Non-Proliferation and Arms Control at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to him, that would have to cross the front line. “It’s a huge risk,” says Vishnevetsky. After the outbreak of war, Western politicians regularly come to Kiev. So in June there were, in particular, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron. UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric’s representative said at a briefing on 15 August that the organization’s secretariat would support any travel by IAEA experts to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant via Kyiv, if Moscow and the Ukrainian authorities agree to it. .

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The German Federal Association for Natural Gas, Petroleum and Geoenergy (BVEG) expects sufficient gas reserves for next winter. “If the supply situation, including supplies from Russia, remains the same, under normal weather conditions and the implementation of austerity measures, we will be able to fill the gas storage facilities as planned,” BVEG chief Ludwig Möhring told Bild.

At the same time, a representative of the Federal Grid Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) stressed that “Germany’s gas supply in winter it cannot be guaranteed” just at the expense of the storage facilities. “It can be very difficult to assume that in an average winter the stocks of the storage facilities will last around two and a half months,” the expert told Bild. .

Six Latvian self-propelled guns are involved in Ukraine

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six more self-propelled artillery mounts (ACS) М109who arrived in Ukraine from Latvia “are already showing results on the battlefield”, said Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov. He thanked fellow Latvian Artis Pabriks and the people of Latvia “for their unwavering support” of Kyiv.

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President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky demanded that RF Armed Forces forces immediately and “without any conditions” leave the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant (NPP) and its surrounding areas. “Any incident of radiation at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant could be a blow to many countries. It all depends only on the direction and strength of the wind,” the Ukrainian leader warned in his nightly speech. According to Zelensky, one must move from “discussions and calls” to tough new sanctions against the Russian Federation, the Russian state corporation Rosatom and “the entire nuclear industry of the terrorist state”. “The world has been fighting for many decades for proper control of all actions with nuclear materials and radiation safety. And if now the world does not have the strength and determination to protect a nuclear power plant, it means that the world will lose,” said the Ukrainian. emphasized the leader, noting that “there is still a chance to avoid this loss”.

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