On the 167th 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 9 (Moscow time).

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The transition to a climate-neutral economy using hydrogen increases Germany’s sovereignty. This was stated by the federal government German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Olaf Scholz) during a visit to Industriepark Höchst. The head of government recalled the country’s dependence on energy imports, mainly from Russia. Thanks to hydrogen, Germany has “realistic and economically viable technology… to break free from this addiction,” the chancellor said.

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US President Joe Biden documents signed by Washington ratifying the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO. “This step will make Europe and the whole world safer,” said the US president. “Together with our allies, we will shape the future we want to see,” Biden said.

The US president suggested that Russia expected a weakening of the alliance. “They wanted to see the ‘Finlandization’ of NATO and instead they got NATO in Finland,” Biden said. Last week, the US Senate voted in favor of ratifying Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership, with 95 people voting in favor and one against. Both Democrats and Republicans strongly supported the movement.

In the Kyiv region, a local resident was convicted of helping the invaders

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To 15 years in prison with confiscation of property Ukrainian court sentenced a resident of the village of Pobeda, Kyiv region. As reported by the Kyiv regional prosecutor’s office on its Telegram channel, during the occupation of the village, the convict cooperated with the Russian military and, under guarantees of personal immunity, informed them about the location of territorial defense checkpoints, the place of work of local residents, in particular about police and military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and carried out other assignments.

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Lufthansa airline does not intend to use Russian airspace until March 25, 2023 due to the situation in Ukraine. This is stated in the carrier’s declaration. The company is extending the suspension of flights with Ukraine until this date. At the same time, it is stated that “currently, the airspace over Ukraine is closed, flights are not carried out”.

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Former US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker does not believe in the effectiveness of attempts to lead negotiations with Putin. In his opinion, the president of the Russian Federation has decided to destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state and will not stop as long as he has this “imperial thinking”. At the same time, Volker said in an interview with Radio Liberty that Putin’s position is weakening because Moscow has failed to conquer Ukraine despite the large number of casualties.

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The Ukrainian military does not know why explosions and fires at Russian military airfield near Novofedorovka in occupied Crimea, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said on Facebook. “The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense cannot determine the cause of the fire, but once again reminds us of fire safety rules and the ban on smoking in unmarked places,” the report reads. The department believes that “the fact of the fire can be used by a terrorist country in information warfare.” “We do not rule out that the occupants ‘accidentally’ find some characteristic ‘chevron’, ‘business card’ or even ‘DNA'”, he says.

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Shortly after a series of explosions in Crimea, near Saki airfield, where the Russian military base is located, traffic jams at the entrance to the Crimean bridge and on the bridge to Russia itself, Anton Gershchanko said in his telegram channel. “Tourists on the east coast of Crimea – Kerch, Feodosia, Planerskoye rushed to flee en masse,” the report says. According to eyewitnesses, the traffic jam starts “long before the Crimean bridge” and moves very slowly.

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During Russian occupation of the city of Bucha near Kyiv 458 civilians were killed, with 419 of them shot or tortured. According to the deputy mayor of the town of Mikhailina Skorik-Shkarovskaya, among the dead were 366 men and 86 women, including nine children. In another five bodies it is impossible to determine the sex due to their condition. About 50 corpses are still in morgues as unidentified or unclaimed relatives.

The Coca-Cola Company will build a kindergarten in the Kyiv region

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The Coca-Cola Company committed to building a new kindergarten in the village of Bogdanovka Kyiv region. The village is located on the territory of the Brovarsky district, where the Coca-Cola plant has been operating for about 25 years. In Bogdanovka, the entire social infrastructure was practically destroyed – a school and a kindergarten, an outpatient clinic received significant damage. Coca-Cola is investing $1.1 million in construction.

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Kaliningrad region has exhausted some of the limits set by the European Union for the transport through Lithuania of goods subject to sanctions. This, according to RBC, said the governor of the Kaliningrad region, Anton Alikhanov. In particular, this applies to certain types of iron, steel, petroleum and derivatives, fertilizers, antifreeze, wood. According to the governor, the quotas “were calculated by Lithuania based on the traffic of the last three years”. Alikhanov noted that the cost of these goods will increase significantly if they are delivered to the region by sea.

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Only in Nikolaev region since the beginning of Russia’s direct military aggression against Ukraine 408 dead. The chairman of Nikolaev’s regional military administration, Vitaly Kim, told reporters about this. “Since the beginning of the active war, 1,481 people have been injured in our country, 408 of them have been killed. And 10 of them are children. As for the internally displaced, today there are 24,856 people,” Kim said.

Explosion and fire at a military airfield in Crimea

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In Crimea occupied by the Russian Federation happened explosions near the military airfield near the city of Saki, a fire started. According to the Telegram channel “Crimea Today. News” with reference to eyewitnesses, the runway and ammunition depots in Novofedorivka were on fire. Previously, the Armed Forces of Ukraine allowed the use of HIMARS MLRS for attacks against targets in Crimea.

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In Russian occupation Donetsk and Luhansk and a delegation arrived from Moscow. The purpose of the visit is allegedly to verify the intended use of funds that Moscow has earmarked for eight years “for the development of Donbass”. According to Ukrainian Channel 24, citing Ukrainian intelligence sources, the Kremlin is seriously considering removing all collaborators in the occupied territories from their “positions” and replacing them with Russian officials.

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Finnish military instructors participate in training military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) in the United Kingdom. The announcement was made on Twitter by Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. Previously, it was known that instructors for the training of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were sent to the United Kingdom by Sweden, Canada and the Netherlands.

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Ukraine is back the bodies of 17 of their dead soldiers. According to the press service of Ukraine’s Ministry of Reintegration, the operation to return the bodies was carried out in cooperation with Oleg Kotenko, Commissioner for Missing Persons in Special Circumstances, and Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies. The process of transferring the bodies of dead soldiers takes place in accordance with the norms of the Geneva Convention.

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Belarusian Air Force and Air Defense will be held in august military training, which will also take place on the territory of the 185th Combat Training Center of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation. The announcement was made by the Ministry of Defense of Belarus on its Telegram channel. The purpose of the exercises is to “increase the coherence of military formations and units in the performance of tasks”.

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Ukrainian state company “Ukrtransnafta” stopped oil pumping along the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline system. Through it, raw materials are delivered to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. According to the RIA Novosti agency with reference to the company Transneft, pumping has been stopped since August 4, as the Russian company was unable to pay for transit services due to EU sanctions.

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