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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the village of the sands The Pokrovsky district of the Donetsk region is still under the control of Ukraine, but the situation is difficult, fighting continues. The announcement was made on the air of the national marathon by Eastern Group of Forces speaker Sergei Cherevaty. Thus, he refuted the statement made on the eve of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, with the assertion that Peski was under the full control of the Russian military.

Cherevaty pointed out that on the night of August 14, Russian troops invaded the village. At the same time, according to the spokesman for the Eastern Forces Group, Sands is just one of the hot spots in the Donetsk region. Fighting continues near the village of Pervomaisky, Russia is making attempts to invade the town of Krasnogorovka. Furthermore, on Aug. 13, the Russian Armed Forces were attacking Maryinka, Cherevaty said.

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As a result of the Russian military’s rocket attacks, demolished one-story building in the village of Bereznegovatoe in the Nikolaev region. This was reported on Facebook by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. There are no casualties data yet.

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Generally crime rate in Ukraine may grow in the coming months due to the crisis. This assumption was made by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denis Monastyrsky on the air of the national telethon. According to him, in the first months of the military invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the level of crime in Ukraine in almost all categories was reduced by half, but at the same time a new category appeared – war crimes. In addition, in the context of the war, an increase in the number of serious and especially serious crimes was recorded – due to the actions of the Russian military, Monastyrsky noted.

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The priority in Russia’s actions last week, according to British military intelligence, was redeployment of reinforcement units in the south direction. Russian-backed forces of the self-proclaimed “DPR” continue to attempt offensives north of Donetsk, according to the British Defense Ministry. Fierce fighting broke out in the Peski village area, not far from the Donetsk airport. Earlier, Moscow declared full control over this deal, but the Ukrainian side did not confirm this fact.

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According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, losses on the Russian side on the last day totaled 1 helicopter, 8 tanks and 150 soldiers. Overall, since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has already lost about 43,550 soldiers killed in Ukraine, says the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation last reported its dead in late March. According to official figures, 1,351 military personnel were killed in the war triggered by the Kremlin in Ukraine and another 3,825 people were injured. The Pentagon believes Russia could lose as many as 80,000 people killed and wounded in the war.

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Russian troops tried to carry out reconnaissance in force in the Pitomnik area near Kharkov, but suffered losses and were forced to retreat, according to the operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Several attempts at an offensive in Donbass were also repulsed. There are reports of continuous bombing and air strikes against Ukrainian military and civilian targets in many directions.

In Odessa, a Russian citizen convicted of collecting information about the Ukrainian army

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Russian engineer sentenced in Odessa, who collected secret information about the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reports UNIAN news agency with reference to the verdict of the Primorsky District Court of Odessa. The convict – a native of Moscow, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a lead engineer at the MEPhI National Nuclear Research University in Moscow – from February 24 to June 6, 2022, collected information on the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations in Odessa.

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To the south, Ukrainian troops on 13 August destroyed two RF Armed Forces ammunition depots in Muzykovka and Nova Kakhovka (Kherson region), informed the operational command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “South”. It also reported on the destruction of the Russian T-72 tank and the fact that the Russian Armed Forces Orlan-10 drone, which was doing coastal reconnaissance, “has been modified from an aircraft to a submarine”.

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Serious problems with the supply of Russian troops on the west bank of the Dnieper would likely make it vulnerable to even some Ukrainian counterattacks. Furthermore, it will be unable to attack, according to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

The report says that on August 13, the Armed Forces of Ukraine apparently seriously destroyed the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant bridge with their attack – the last over which the RF Armed Forces could transfer heavy equipment. Now, if the bridges over the Dnieper cannot be restored, supplying the Russian troop group is only possible by air or by pontoons – however, transporting goods in the required quantity in this way is “unreasonable if not impossible”, they say. the analysts.

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Russian troops attacked the port and residential areas Nikolaev, reports the operational command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “South”. “Three missiles from the Uragan multi-launch rocket system attacked the port infrastructure of Nikolaev. No casualties. And an hour later, six missiles from the Smerch multi-rocket launcher hit residential areas and industrial facilities in the city,” the report reads. As a result, one person was injured and several buildings were damaged.

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: A fifth of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine were destroyed

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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 km long front, and Ukraine “is in dire need of increased 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.

A total of 16 grain ships were shipped from Ukraine

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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 bridgehead 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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