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 continues to monitor developments on Tuesday, August 16 (Moscow time).

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Russia makes around 700-800 bombardments of Ukrainian positions daily, using 40,000 to 60,000 ammunition. Such data Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny quoted in a telephone conversation with Canadian Armed Forces Chief of Defense Staff Wayne Donald Eyre. According to Zaluzhny, the most tense situation developed towards the cities of Avdiivka and Maryinka, as well as the village of Peski in the Donetsk region.

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saltovsky district Kharkov again came under fire, said the city’s mayor Igor Terekhov. “MLRS hit the ground near a residential building. Windows were broken, walls were cut. There were no casualties before,” said the mayor.

Energoatom: Russian cyber attack

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Ukrainian State-owned company Energoatom reported an “unprecedented” cyber attack to your website, made from the territory of the Russian Federation. According to the company, the Russian group “People’s Cyber ​​​​​​Army” is behind the attack, using 7.25 million bot users. The hackers’ actions did not have a significant impact on the functioning of the Energoatom website and remained invisible to users, the Ukrainian company added.

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, by his decree of 16 August, Personnel changes at the Supreme Commander’s Headquarters. It included the First Deputy Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasily Malyuk, the Commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Tantsyura, the Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Khorenko and the Commander of the National Guard by Ukraine Yuriy Lebed. Igor Bakanov, Grigory Galagan, Yuri Galushkin were removed from Stavka. Previously, Galushkin was dismissed from the post of commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Galagan – from the post of commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Bakanov – from the post of head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine SBU

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Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers fired two X-59 guided missiles at military airfield in the Zhytomyr region. The bombing was carried out from the territory of Belarus and the Su-34s simulated a training flight, the press service of the Central Air Command reported on Facebook. The attack damaged the track and several vehicles. The personnel were in hiding and therefore were not injured.

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a phone conversation with a French colleague Emmanuel Macron. During the conversation, the leaders of the countries discussed the situation at the front and the “nuclear terrorism of the Russian Federation” at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Zelensky wrote on Twitter. “I thanked France for its significant defense support. We discussed the strengthening of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine and the challenges in the field of food security. We must increase the pressure of sanctions on the Russian Federation”, added the Ukrainian president.

According to the Elysee Palace, Macron told Zelensky about his concerns about the risks to Ukraine’s nuclear facilities. The French leader expressed support for the proposal by the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send representatives of the organization to Ukraine as soon as possible to study the situation around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

UN Secretary General to meet Ukrainian and Turkish leaders in Lviv

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UN Secretary General António Guterres August 18 will leave for Ukraine. In Lviv, he will meet with the presidents of Ukraine and Turkey – Volodymyr Zelensky and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The next day, in Odessa, Guterres plans to visit one of the three ports involved in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the organization said.

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AT THE building exploded in occupied Lysychansk, which housed the headquarters of the 6th regiment of the 2nd Russian army corps, said the head of the Luhansk regional administration Sergei Gaidai. According to him, the explosion killed about 100 soldiers. These are no longer “Wagnerites”, this is already the regular army of the Russian Federation. According to the “wagnerites” there are more than one hundred (dead. – Ed.), what happened today is almost 100″, explained Gaidai.

On the Kerch bridge – long lines of people wanting to leave Crimea

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Queues of cars formed on the Kerch Bridge who wish to leave the occupied Crimean peninsula. “Obviously, the movement of people takes place after an ammunition dump exploded in the Dzhankoy region in the morning. Occupying Crimean ‘authorities’ also report suspension of trains due to damage to the tracks,” reports British news channel Sky News. . The movement of vehicles in the last hours on the Kerch bridge, which connects Crimea to Russia, has become a record: on the last day, about 38,300 cars crossed it in both directions.

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Ukraine returned the bodies of 19 dead Ukrainian servicemen, said the Ministry for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories. The process of returning the bodies follows the rules of the Geneva Convention, the agency said. The Russian side did not report on the exchange and did not comment on the Ukrainian ministry’s statement.

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Russian language and Russian literature removed from school curriculum in Ukraine, in the foreign literature program, instead of the works of almost all Russian and Belarusian writers, the works of other authors were added “according to the literary process and taking into account the age characteristics of the students”, in particular O. Henry , Jean de La Fontaine, Anna Gavald, Olaf Stark and others. Only “the works of writers who wrote in Russian, but whose life and work were closely linked to Ukraine” remained – Nikolai Gogol, Vladimir Korolenko, Mikhail Bulgakov (only “The heart of a dog”). In the list for further reading, “The Twelve Chairs” by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov and “Babi Yar” by Anatoly Kuznetsov were left to choose, the Ministry of Education of Ukraine reported. The changes will affect the program for students in grades 5 through 11.

The school’s history course was also changed. “The updated programs offer a vision of the USSR as an imperial-type government,” writes Ukraine’s Ministry of Education. The study of Russian-Ukrainian warfare has been added to the course of modern history since 2014. The list of concepts has also been updated, including “Russian world” and “rashism”.

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Rosaviatsiya extended the ban on flights to airports in southern Russia and annexed Crimea until August 23. The restriction applies to the air ports of Anapa, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Gelendzhik, Krasnodar, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov-on-Don, Elista and Simferopol.