On the 171st 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 Saturday, August 13 (Moscow time).

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Due to hostilities in the Donetsk region, de-energized Karlovska filtration station, in part of the region the water supply was interrupted. Pokrovsk Mayor Ruslan Trebushkin reports this on Telegram.

The Karlovskaya filtration station provides water supply to the settlements: Belozersky, Belitsky, Gornyak, Dobropolye, Mirnograd, Novogrodovka, Pokrovsk, Selydovo and Ukrainsk.

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The authorities are not yet considering the option of evacuation of the population of Kharkov and the part of the Kharkiv region controlled by Ukraine, Oleg Sinegubov, head of Kharkiv’s regional military administration, said during an informational marathon.

He added that authorities are taking all necessary steps to prepare for the warming season. “However, we understand that the enemy is hitting critical infrastructure and we must consider all possible options, including evacuation measures,” Sinegubov said.

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No one proposes to ban Russians from entering the EUwho need political asylum or entry for humanitarian reasons. This has been declared Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba on your Twitter page. Russian citizens “dissatisfied with the proposal to ban them from obtaining tourist visas to travel in Europe” can send their grievances directly to the Kremlin or to the 70% of their compatriots who support the war, the minister wrote.

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British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons said she didn’t understand how declaring Russia a terrorist state will help force the Russian Federation “to answer for everything it has done, what it is doing now and what it will continue to do during this invasion of Ukrainians, Ukraine as a country and Ukrainian identity”. “But I absolutely understand why people do this (recognition of Russia as a state sponsoring terrorism. – Ed.) want,” the diplomat said in an interview with Ukrainian online publication Gordon.

According to Simmons, the announcement of the Russian Federation as a sponsoring state of terrorism has “a kind of symbolic importance”.

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Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, initiated an appeal to member countries of the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group (Ramstein format) with a request send military justice experts, war crimes experts to Ukraine. Reznikov reports this on Facebook.

The purpose of the joint declaration of the Defense Forces of Ukraine is to draw attention to the plight of Ukrainian prisoners of war, first of all the defenders of Mariupol, follow from their post.

According to the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the actions of the Russian military in Yelenovka require a reaction not only from the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the ECHR, but also from the UN.

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