On the 173rd 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 continues to monitor developments on Monday, August 15 (Moscow time).

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The Russian Defense Ministry claims that “a high-precision weapon of the Russian Aerospace Forces has reached a temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries” near the village of Zolochiv in the Kharkov region. “More than 100 militants from Poland and Germany were killed and more than 50 wounded.“, the ministry said in a statement.

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Vladimir Zelensky dismissed the heads of SBU departments in the Kyiv, Lviv and Ternopil regions. By another decree, the president appointed the former head of the SBU of the Lviv region to a similar post in the Kyiv region.

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As a result of the morning bombing of the Saltovka microdistrict in Kharkiv five people were injured. The rocket hit a residential courtyard, cars, a playground were damaged and windows in neighboring houses were destroyed, writes Kharkiv life.

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The British Ministry of Defense in the daily report writes on the Kremlin’s plans to hold a “referendum” on the accession of the “DPR” territory to Russia. The head of the so-called “People’s Republic” Denis Pushilin said on 11 August that the date of the “referendum” would be announced after the “complete liberation of the DPR”, the British military recalled. They also cite journalistic investigations in June into this “referendum” strategy, according to which the Kremlin plans to secure 70% “yes” votes to join Russia.

The Kremlin is “quite likely” to be in the “advanced stage of referendum planning”, according to British intelligence, although it is unclear whether a final decision has been made. “The Kremlin will likely regard the military’s failure to fully occupy the Donetsk region as a failure to achieve its maximalist objectives in Ukraine,” the British Defense Ministry summarized.

The Ukrainian side confirmed the attack on the PMC headquarters “Wagner”

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Head of Luhansk OVA Sergei Gaidai confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine the day before attacked the headquarters of PMC “Wagner” near the town of Popasnaya. According to him, as a result of the bombing, Wagner’s headquarters were destroyed and members of the PMC were killed – Gaidai did not give the exact number. It was possible to reach the headquarters thanks to “one of the representatives of the Russian media”, he wrote.

Earlier, Russian military correspondent Yuri Kotenok and cable channels associated with the PMC reported on the attack “on one of the sites” by Wagner PMC in the city of Popasnaya. It was possible to determine the whereabouts of the military thanks to photographs published on August 8 by war correspondent Sergei Sreda, noted Radio Liberty. He later deleted his post.

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Russian troops withdrew after losses during the assault in the direction of Tikhotskoe – Dolina in the Slavic direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on its Facebook page.

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To help investors get rid of “toxic assets,” which the United States considers Russian-sanctioned bonds, several major US banks have resumed operations with Russian corporate bonds, reports Reuters, citing its sources. It becomes clear that financial institutions work exclusively with bonds already in their portfolios and help them get rid of illiquid assets.

The volume of parallel imports to Russia reached almost US$ 6.5 billion

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The volume of imports into the Russian Federation of goods within parallel import mechanism has reached nearly $6.5 billion since its launch in early May of this year. According to the estimates of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Russian Federation, by the end of the year this figure could reach 16 billion, said Denis Manturov, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Industry and Commerce of the Russian Federation, in an interview with Interfax.

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city ​​of nikopol The Dnipropetrovsk region was subjected to a missile attack by Russian troops on Monday night. The announcement was made by the head of Nikopol RVA Evgeny Yevtushenko.

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Another six freighters received from Joint Focal Point (JCC) in Istanbul, permission to pass into Ukraine via a secure “grain corridor” in the Black Sea. Of these, two MV Kafkam Etler and MV Zelek Star have already passed inspection in the Sea of ​​Marmara and can be shipped to the port of Chernomorsk in the Odessa region for loading with Ukrainian grain. The other four ships will be inspected on 15 August.

Partisans blew up the bridge near Melitopol

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Ukrainian partisans damaged the railway bridge near the occupied Melitopol Zaporizhia, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram. “One less railway bridge southwest of Melitopol equates to the complete absence of Russian trains from Crimea,” he wrote. According to Fedorov, “resistance forces helped the bridge to ‘wear out’ so much that the Russian military ‘failed to restore it for the second day'”.

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The main part of the command of the Russian troops departed Kherson, said Yuri Sobolevsky, vice president of the Kherson Regional Council. Speaking on Ukrainian TV, he confirmed that artillery from the Armed Forces of Ukraine had destroyed all bridges over the Dnieper in the Kherson region, and now the Russian Armed Forces “do not have a single secure logistical route” that would allow them to supply the Kherson group.

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AT THE Istanbul the first dry freighter with wheat arrived, leaving the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk as part of the “grain corridor” agreed by Ukraine with the Russian Federation and Turkey. This was reported by the Turkish TV channel TRT World with reference to the Joint Coordination Center (JCC). The Belize-flagged freighter is carrying 3,000 tons of wheat; she left Chernomorsk on 12 August. In total, 18 cargo ships left Ukrainian ports under the “grain corridor”.

Mayor of Energodar: The risk of a catastrophe in the ZNPP increases every day

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Disaster risk at Europe’s largest Zaporozhye nuclear power plant “It grows every day,” Energodar Mayor Dmitry Orlov told AFP. “What is happening there is absolute nuclear terrorism, and it could end unpredictably at any moment,” he said. According to him, mortar attacks were carried out at the plant “every day and every night”. “The situation is dangerous and what worries me most is the lack of a de-escalation process,” added the mayor of Energodar, who lives in Zaporozhye. Kyiv called for the creation of a demilitarized zone around the nuclear plant and demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops. Dozens of countries joined.

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killed in battle the best pilot of the Ukrainian Air Force 2019 Anton Listopad. A few days before his death, President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded him the Order of Courage 3rd degree. “Millions of Ukrainians watched with awe and pride on the day of the 300th anniversary of independence [Украины] Flight over Khreshchatyk of the aviation column of the parade of troops. Our Anton was the leader of this column,” reads the post-obituary posted on Facebook by the Physic-Technical Lyceum of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, where Listopad studied.

Deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine: 22,000 civilian and 300 military installations were bombed

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For a military installation attacked by the RF Armed Forces in Ukraine, there are 73 civilians. This conclusion can be drawn from the data Deputy Minister of Home Affairs of Ukraine Evgenia Enina. “We see numbers – more than 22,000 civilian objects hit and only about 300 military objects. We see how cruise missiles fly directly over nuclear power facilities, we see enemy missiles hitting critical infrastructure facilities, chemical production,” Yenin told the service of press of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

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Russians who do not openly protest the war actually support it. This view was expressed in his daily evening speech by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. “It must be remembered that when evil reaches such proportions, people’s silence approaches the level of complicity. And the refusal to actually fight evil becomes only an aid to it. So if you have Russian citizenship and you are silent , means that you are not fighting, which means And no matter where you are – on Russian territory or abroad, your voice must sound in support of Ukraine and therefore against this war,” Zelensky said.

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