On the 169th 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 Thursday, August 11 (Moscow time).

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More than 60 thousand tons of humanitarian cargo through the EU Emergency Aid Mechanism. This included 180 ambulances, 125 fire engines, 300 power generators, 35 construction vehicles and 4 floating bridges, the European Commission said. As the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Janez Lenarczych, noted, assistance to Ukraine, which exceeds €425 million, is the largest since the creation of this mechanism in 2001.

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Norway will join the large-scale training of the Ukrainian military, which is carried out in the UK. Norwegian Defense Minister Bjorn Aril Gramm confirmed the government’s intention to send Norwegian military instructors to the UK. “Ukrainian forces urgently need more training and education… We will send our instructors for basic training of military personnel, as some other countries have already done,” media company NRK said, quoting the head of the defense department.

More than 130 female soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are held in Russian captivity

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More than 130 female soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukrainecaptured in the Mariupol factory “Azovstal”. As Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk said in a briefing, “among them are those who served in the Azov regiment, among them are military doctors, among them are border guards, among them is the 36th brigade of marines, among them are the National Guards”, he clarified. Vereshchuk stressed that Ukraine will make efforts to free them and called for drawing the attention of the world community to Russia’s inappropriate actions in the treatment of prisoners of war.

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Revenues from Russian oil exports fell from US$ 21 billion in June to US$ 19 billion in July. As noted in the International Energy Agency (IEA) report, the reason was reduced supply as well as lower oil prices. The document said Russian oil exports fell by 115,000 bpd last month to 7.4 million bpd in July from around 8 million bpd at the start of the year. Russia’s supplies of crude oil and petroleum products to the US, UK, EU, Japan and South Korea have dropped by nearly 2.2 million barrels a day since the start of the war. On the other hand, two thirds of these flows were redirected by the Russian Federation to other markets.

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According to preliminary data, up to 13,000 active and ex-military Belarusians signed consent to participate in the war against Ukraine. Alexey Gromov, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, spoke about this during a briefing. According to him, quoted by the UNIAN agency, the main motivation for Belarusians is the material reward for participating in the war, since “there is no ideological basis in the actions of the occupiers and nobody believes in denazification”.

Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of bombing the nuclear plant

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russian troops again bombed the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the area around the station. The national nuclear power generation company Energoatom reports this on its Telegram channel on the Telegram channel “Five “arrivals” were recorded in the area of ​​​​the station commander’s office – right next to the place of welding and storage of radiation sources. Grass caught fire in a small area, but luckily no one was injured,” the statement said. In addition, according to Energoatom, “five more” arrivals” took place in the area of ​​the fire station, which is located near the fire station. ZNPP. change “in time”.

In turn, the so-called “head of administration” of the part of the Zaporozhye region temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation, Yevhen Balitsky accused the Armed Forces of Ukraine of attacking the territory of the nuclear power plant. “At least three arrivals were recorded in the radioactive isotope storage area,” he told Russian news agency Interfax. In addition, the high voltage line of the Kakhovskaya substation was damaged.

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court in moscow Sent under house arrest former Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova. His lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov announced this on his Telegram channel. On the eve of Ovsyannikova, she was accused in an article of spreading fakes about the Russian army on the basis of political hatred. She faces up to 10 years in prison.

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Response to the invasion of Ukraine now must be full scale, like the war that Russia started. This has been declared President Volodymyr Zelensky addressing participants at the Northern European Allies Conference in Support of Ukraine, which is taking place in Copenhagen. “No delay, just decisive action, no confusion, just confident unity. We need weapons and grenades for our defense to the fullest, we need funding for Ukraine in sufficient volume and without bureaucratic blockades,” Zelensky said. The event is held at the initiative of the Danish and UK defense departments.

McDonald’s returns to Ukraine

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American mcdonald corporationmade a decision open some restaurants in Ukraine, closed immediately after the start of the war. As Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, who welcomed this decision, said on his Facebook page, “the return of a large American company to Ukraine is, above all, a sign for international business that it is possible to work in the country even during the war.” The first McDonald’s is expected to resume its activities in Kyiv and the western regions of the country.

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The Insider and Bellingcat published new investigation, based on the file of complaints to the Russian Military Prosecutor’s Office that became available to journalists. From the documents obtained, it appears that recruits are thrown into the combat zone by mistake or duress, soldiers do not receive normal food and medical care, parents cannot receive any information about their captured or killed children. In addition, Russian soldiers are involved in looting on the territory of the so-called “DNR” and “LNR”.

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German Minister of the Environment Steffi Lemke (Steffi Lemke) insists on keeping inspections affected by the fight Zaporozhye nuclear power plant experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In an interview with the Funke Mediengruppe newspapers. The politician described the situation around the station as “uncertain and dangerous”, stressing that concrete and reliable information about the situation in the ZNPP is lacking. To get an objective picture of the security situation at the facility, it is necessary to provide access to independent IAEA experts, which was required in a joint statement the day before by the chancellors of the G7 countries.

Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant August 5th to 6th. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in particular said that “there are no people in the world who can feel safe when a terrorist state bombs a nuclear power plant”. On August 8, Kyiv called on the UN, the IAEA and the world community to take all possible measures to send a special mission to the nuclear power plant.

Russia refused Switzerland to represent Ukraine’s interests

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Russia opposed suggestions Switzerland to represent Ukraine’s interests. According to the deputy director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ivan Nechaev, to whom the TASS agency refers, Bern cannot mutually represent the interests of Kyiv and Moscow because of the loss of the status of neutrality after the imposition of sanctions against Russia. The day before, it became known that Ukraine had reached an agreement with Switzerland on the representation of Ukrainian interests in Russia.

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Estonian government decided ban Russian citizens from entering the country with existing Schengen visas issued by Estonia. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Reinsalu, exceptionally, employees of the Russian Embassy and their family members, drivers involved in the transport of goods and passengers, persons enjoying the right of free movement in accordance with EU legislation or whose entry is necessary for humanitarian reasons will be able to enter Estonia, as well as those who visit a relative or spouse residing in Estonia. The decision does not apply to Russians who have received Schengen visas issued by other EU countries, the minister stressed.

CNN investigation: Elenovka colony was not hit by HIMARS

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Attack on the colony in Yelenovkain which more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war died, was not applied by the HIMARS missile defense system. This is stated in the investigation conducted by the television company CNN. Experts, in particular, note: the photo shows that the walls of the building where the prisoners of war were kept survived, and most of the roof remained intact. Nowhere is the crater visible, which always occurs after an MLRS attack. The serial number of the HIMARS missile shown by Russian propaganda media could not have been preserved in a fire of such magnitude.

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