On the 172nd 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 Sunday, August 14 (Moscow time).

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A fifth of the RF Armed Forces units involved in the war against Ukraine were defeated. This has been declared Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny during a telephone conversation with US Chief of Staff Mark Milley. Zaluzhny also informed his American counterpart that active hostilities are now taking place on a 1,300-kilometer-long front, and Ukraine “really needs to step up artillery fire.”

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The receipt of new long-range weapons from the West allowed Ukraine to change strategy in war with Russiawrites The New York Times. If in spring and early summer the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost ground and suffered heavy losses in unequal battles under Russian artillery fire, in recent weeks Ukraine has managed to slow down the advance of the RF Armed Forces. “By striking deep behind enemy lines, the Ukrainians are depleting Russia’s combat potential, slowing its advance in the east and creating new vulnerabilities in the south,” the paper notes.

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since unlock 16 ships with grain have already left Ukraine, said President Volodymyr Zelensky. These data were confirmed by the Turkish Ministry of Defense.

Zelensky added that in less than two weeks, three Ukrainian ports – Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny – managed to export a volume equal to all agricultural exports by road and more than two-thirds of rail exports in July. “There are about half a million tons of agricultural products on board: corn, wheat, sunflower oil, soybeans and other products absolutely necessary for the world market,” Zelensky said.

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Command of Russian occupation forces in southern Ukraine moves to the left bank of the Dnieper. The head of Nikolaev’s regional military administration, Vitaly Kim, wrote about this in his Telegram. The official added that he was “not very, but a little sad” by the Russian military left on the right bank of the river.

According to the British Ministry of Defence, the ground supply of the Russian Armed Forces group holding a beachhead on the right (west) bank of the Dnieper, between Kherson and Nikolaev, “almost certainly depends only on two ferry crossings”. With supplies in short supply, a key factor in fighting in the area will likely be the amount of stockpiles previously stockpiled by Russian troops on the west bank of the river, analysts say.

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Vladimir Zelensky said that a soldier in the Russian army, bombing of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, or those who use him as a shield, will suffer retribution. “Every Russian soldier who fires at the station or shoots behind the station must understand that he is becoming a special target for our intelligence and special services, for our army,” the Ukrainian president emphasized in a video message.

Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of bombing the station. Meanwhile, there is evidence that the Russian army mined the ZNPP.

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