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2022-08-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: August 15th, 2022
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Korrespondent] 23:34 Employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross have access to Ukrainian prisoners of war and are trying to control the situation with prisoners in Yelenovka, Alexander Vlasenko, the ICRC representative in Ukraine, told Suspilny. According to him, the specialists visited the Ukrainian prisoners twice, but did not have the opportunity to talk with them one on one: “We have access to some people and had access. We really were in Yelenovka twice. After the prisoners of war were moved there, it was Literally 2-3 days after their transportation to Yelenevka". At the same time, Vlasenko noted that the visit was short and did not fully meet the requirements of the ICRC - the purpose of the visit was simply to bring drinking water there.
23:21 Zelensky, in an evening video message, called for new tough sanctions against Russia, Rosatom and the entire nuclear industry of the Russian Federation due to the situation at the ZNPP: "Any radiation incident at the Zaporizhzhya NPP can be a blow to the EU countries, Turkey, and Georgia , and to countries from more distant regions. It all depends only on the direction and strength of the wind. If a catastrophe occurs due to the actions of Russia, the consequences may hit those who are still silent ... The world has struggled for many decades to properly control all actions with nuclear materials and radiation safety. And if the world does not have enough strength and determination now to protect one nuclear plant, then this means that the world will lose. "
22:39 The next meeting of the "court" in the cases of five foreigners who fought on the side of Ukraine in the Donbass will be held in October, Russian media write. Earlier today it was reported that three of them face the death penalty.
22:10 In Russia, they can shout as much as they like that the Western sanctions imposed for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine do not work, but statistics show the opposite. The war in Ukraine set the Russian economy back four years in just one quarter, writes Bloomberg. And this is already the path of one of the longest recessions in history. More details - in the material The occupier is getting poorer .
21:39 An analysis of the situation at the Belarusian airfield Zyabrovka proves that the likelihood of rocket attacks on the territory of Ukraine "not only remains, but it seems that preparations are underway for a massive missile strike in the coming weeks," writes Belaruski Gayun. According to the monitoring group, this is also evidenced by the fact that since the last massive shelling - on July 28 - not a single rocket has been fired from the territory of Belarus towards Ukraine.
Currently, there are from 10 to 14 S-400 Triumph air defense systems, three KASTA-2E2 and 48Ya6 Podlet radars, and two Pantsir air defense systems at the airfield. There is also an ammunition depot with at least 15-60 missiles for the S-300/400 air defense system. In addition, it was confirmed that Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces are delivering missiles for the S-400 to the Gomel airport, from where they are being transported to Zyabrovka.
Belarusian Gayun recalled that on August 11, flashes were seen and explosions were heard in the area of the Zyabrovka airfield. Subsequently, thanks to the Belarusians and Maxar satellite images, it turned out that a T-72 tank was destroyed that night. According to investigators, there are dead.
20:53 Shoigu and Guterres discussed the conditions for the safe operation of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Russian media write. The parties also discussed the UN initiatives regarding the procedure for simplifying the export of Russian food products and fertilizers.
20:47 The UN is ready to facilitate the trip of IAEA experts to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant through Kiev, if the Russian and Ukrainian authorities agree to this, the Secretary General's office said.
20:12 Since the beginning of this day, the Russian invaders have tried to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region and made several assaults in other directions. In particular, the invaders unsuccessfully tried to break through the defense of the Ukrainian troops in the direction of Cossack Lopan - Uda, the General Staff reports in the evening report.
20:05 In the Kharkiv region, evacuation is underway from Lozovaya and Barvenkovo, which are located in the south of the region and which the Russian army may try to capture, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said on the air of the telethon. At the same time, he added that a mandatory evacuation from the region is not yet planned.
19:36 Shortly after the news of the attack on Wagner's headquarters in Popasna, several independent investigative journalists recalled Prigozhin's addiction to hoaxes and urged to be critical of such information. About what happened - in the material Impact on Wagner's headquarters in Popasna .
19:31 Another five foreigners who fought for Ukraine were announced "charges", they will be "tried" by the "supreme court of the DPR", Russian media write. Matthias Gustavsson (Sweden), Vekoslav Prebeg (Croatia) and John Harding (UK) are "tried" for "participation in hostilities and training to seize power by force", Andrew Hill (UK) for "participation in hostilities", and Dylan Gila (Britain) - for "recruiting mercenaries". The first three face the death penalty.
19:18 Hollywood actor Liev Schreiber arrived in Ukraine - he is the ambassador of the UNITED24 program and will raise funds to help our country. Zelensky met with him and Andriy Shevchenko, who is also a UNITED24 ambassador.
19:14 Podolyak told how many strikes on civilian targets were inflicted by the Russians: "What type of war is the Russian Federation waging? The statistics are inexorable. Since the beginning of full-scale aggression, Russia has dealt 22,000 strikes on civilian targets. And only 300 strikes on military ones. 73 times less. "Special operation"? Demilitarization? No. Banal destruction of infrastructure and terror against the population."
19:00 Zelensky, by his decree, created the Advisory Council on the De-occupation and Reintegration of Crimea as a consultative and advisory body under the President of Ukraine.
18:53 Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said that there has been no gas in the city for three weeks already, and the invaders will not have time to fix the gas supply system and start the heating season on time: "As for the heating season, it's almost a disaster. 95% of heating in Melitopol is gas. Already "There is no gas in the city for three weeks. We understand that until part of the Zaporozhye region is de-occupied, gas will not appear. Most likely, the city of Melitopol will be without gas, because it takes time to repair and restore these systems."
18:46 Latvia donated four helicopters to Ukraine, the country's Minister of Defense Artis Pabriks said. According to him, two Mi-17 and two Mi-2 helicopters were delivered to the Ukrainian Air Force partially disassembled. Before delivery, the helicopters were painted, and one Mi-17 was overhauled. The Ukrainian Air Force will start using them after the assembly is completed.
18:19 In the Kherson region near the village of Geroiskoe, a teacher was blown up by a mine, her son was injured during the explosion, said the current head of the Chulakovskaya territorial community Alexander Musienko.
18:07 The Russian military seized the Energodar branch of the Vasilievsky department of the State Institution Zaporozhye Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (laboratory center), which has a staff of 33 people. According to the mayor of Energodar Dmitry Orlov, the workers refused to cooperate with the occupiers and will not go to work tomorrow.
17:38 In the Donbas near Shakhtyorsk, the deputy head of the Civic Chamber of the Altai Territory and the head of the local union of veterans of Afghanistan Yevgeny Novikov died. As reported in the regional OP, he disappeared after the shelling on July 10, but his remains were found only now. For a month, only his own sister was looking for him.
17:14 Since the start of the grain corridor, 22 ships have passed through it, Deputy Infrastructure Minister Yury Vaskov said. According to him, during these two weeks, 16 ships left Ukrainian ports, which will deliver Ukrainian agricultural products to nine countries of the world, at the same time, six ships have already entered Ukrainian ports for loading. "By the end of the month, we plan to attract at least ten more vessels to Ukrainian ports to load with Ukrainian agricultural products," he added.
16:45 One of the victims died in the hospital after today's shelling of the Saltovsky district of Kharkov. According to the OVA, a total of nine people were injured as a result of shelling on 15 August.
16:37 In the Crimean Shchelkino, a DJ was arrested for ten days for having staged a song and a video clip for Dike Pole by Ukrainian rapper YARMAK on the order of one of the visitors. The complaint against the young man was that the video shows the symbols of Azov and that the video sequence ends with the words Slava ZSU , reports Krym.Realii.
16:24 The FSB of the Russian Federation announced that an explosion of an oil pipeline allegedly being prepared by "Ukrainian special services" was prevented in the Volgograd region. The organization of the sabotage was allegedly led by a Russian, participating in the battles in Ukraine as part of the Uragan national battalion, and a citizen of Ukraine from Azov. Two Russians tried to blow up the pipe, "they offered armed resistance and were neutralized."
15:45 The first ship chartered by the UN World Food Program left Pot Yuzhny for Ethiopia on Sunday, August 14, the head of the Odesa OVA, Maxim Marchenko, said.
15:17 The Verkhovna Rada appealed to the UN, the EU, the European Council, the OSCE, the parliaments and governments of the IAEA member states with a call to impose sanctions against the entire Russian nuclear industry, in particular against the state corporation Rosatom, its management and members of enterprises and organizations. In addition, the parliamentarians demand the organization and dispatch of a joint security mission of the UN and the IAEA to the ZNPP.
14:51 The number of victims of the tragedy in Zatoka has increased to three, two more people were hospitalized after a mine blast on the beach, said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk.
14:26 Rada supported the extension of martial law for 90 days - until November 21, 2022. Also, the parliament supported the extension of the general mobilization period , MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.
14:24 After the Ukrainian strike on the Wagner PMC base in Popasna, more than 100 Wagnerites from the leadership could have been destroyed, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
14:15 The number of victims of the morning shelling of Saltovka has increased to seven, said the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
14:11 Apple demanded that Rutube remove the content of Russian state media from its application within two weeks, otherwise the application will be removed from the store. To this, Rutube said that they would not impose restrictions on the distribution of Russian media, as this violates the rights of the Russian-speaking population.
14:00 Ukraine expects to receive another $12-16 billion from Western partners by the end of the year, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine: “We now have expectations of approximately $26 billion, perhaps more. It depends on the success negotiations, up to 30 billion maybe. This is from the beginning of the war in negotiations. We have already received 14 billion, that is, by the end of the year we can get another 12 to 16 billion." According to the minister, Ukraine's monthly financial need is still $5 billion.
13:47 Belarusian border guards bring migrants to the wall on the border with Poland and help them enter the EU by creating holes in the barrier with the help of special professional tools. As the press secretary of the Polish Border Service Anna Michalska said in an interview with PAP, the detained migrants themselves told the Polish border guards about such a scheme.
13:33 The occupiers are trying to motivate Russian officials who agree to work in Ukraine with large payments, including in hryvnias, the GUR MOU reports. According to the decision of the Belgorod administration, employees of the mayor's office, heads and employees of municipal institutions during their possible work in the "DNR" and "LNR" are promised to be paid a double salary in rubles.
In addition, expenses related to business trips and other needs are compensated from the city budget, as well as allowances are introduced for daily allowances in foreign currency (Ukrainian hryvnias are meant). Promises to increase payments are connected with the categorical unwillingness of Russian officials to go to Ukraine.
12:57 Podolyak addressed the Red Cross: "All prisoners of war, including the defenders of Azovstal, are combatants who legally defended their country. Therefore, the "Mariupol cells" are an official war crime of Russia. It's time for the ICRC and its president, Peter Maurer, to finally remember your purpose and think about your reputation."
12:50 New Zealand will send 120 instructors to train the Ukrainian military in Britain, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said: "New Zealand has made it clear that we will continue to respond to Ukraine's call for practical support as soldiers defend their homeland and people from Russia's unjustified invasion We know that one of the highest priorities for Ukraine right now is the training of its soldiers, and New Zealand is proud to stand in solidarity with a number of other countries to answer this call."
12:31 In the Chernihiv region, the enemy fired twice at the territory of the Novgorod-Seversk community in the morning, the head of the OVA Vyacheslav Chaus said. The neighborhoods of the villages of Kamenskaya Sloboda and Pushkari were under shelling. There is damage to civilian buildings, previously without casualties.
12:28 Zelensky dismissed the heads of the SBU departments in Kyiv, Lviv and Ternopil regions.
12:26 During the war, 313 potential participants of 23 DRGs were detained in the capital, Ivan Vyhovsky, head of the Kiev National Police Main Directorate, said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine: "Of course, not all the facts were confirmed, but these 313 people who were registered were transferred SBU". According to him, ten operational groups are currently working in Kyiv to identify the DRG.
12:11 Klitschko explained in an interview to Babel why get out of the transport during an air raid alert: “These are rules written in blood. In Nikolaev, they got to a stop, many people died, many were injured. These rules are in order to avoid a tragedy [... ] Therefore, they went out, dispersed, or, optimally, ran to the bomb shelter or shelter and waited out the air raid alert." The mayor stressed that this decision of the city's Defense Council - on the recommendation of the military.
Klitschko added that it would be ideal if Kyiv began to build bomb shelters near every transport stop: "But let's be frank, this is impossible to do. We live in special conditions, and we cannot do a lot instantly. We are now talking about building bomb shelters or premises dual use. But the city has no money."
12:07 SBU exposed Russian criminal authorities who tried to join the volunteer battalions of Kiev. One of the detainees turned out to be a citizen of the Russian Federation, who was on the NSDC sanctions list as a criminal authority involved in serious crimes. In this regard, he was banned from entering Ukraine.
11:52 This morning, the Russians fired on the Saltovsky district of Kharkov. As a result of the strike near a public transport stop, two people were injured, Mayor Igor Terekhov said. Also, in the Saltovsky district, a nine-story building was fired upon, at one more address a shell hit the yard. In total, as a result of the morning shelling, five Kharkiv residents were injured, all of them were hospitalized.
11:39 After blowing up bridges in the Kherson region, the local "leadership" flees to Melitopol. At the same time, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said that the Russian military in Melitopol was taking their families out of the city.
11:03 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, announced the first fact of a reverse deportation from Russia. According to him, from Russian Pskov, where Mariupol residents have become a problem for local authorities, they are being returned home. On Saturday, August 13, 60 Mariupol residents were “voluntarily” loaded into two trailer cars and sent to Rostov-on-Don, where they would be met by the “DPR” authorities and taken home. Most of these people do not have surviving housing in the city.
10:41 In the Sumy region, Russians this morning fired at two communities in the Shostka region. The outskirts of the city of Seredina-Buda and one of the villages of the Shalygin community fell under the blows, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
10:14 Most of the military command of the Russians left Kherson, Yuri Sobolevsky, the first deputy head of the Kherson Regional Council, said on the air of the telethon. He confirmed that Ukrainian artillery destroyed all bridge crossings across the Dnieper, so today the Russians do not have a single logistical route to support the military group. All main roads are under the fire control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and it is impossible to cross the Antonovsky bridge even on foot.
09:37 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had successfully worked on the enemy headquarters of the Wagner PMC in Popasna, which was pointed out by a Russian propagandist in his post on social networks.
09:26 Six more ships received permission to export grain from the ports of Ukraine. In particular, the Joint Coordinating Center allowed six ships that arrived for verification to pass through the maritime humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea. Two of these vessels - MV Kafkam Etler and MV Zelek Star - have already been inspected in the Sea of Marmara and can go to Chornomorsk, Odessa region, for loading. On August 16, the inspection of the remaining four vessels is scheduled - MV Great Arsenal, MV Zumrut Ana, MV Ocean S, MV Kubrosliy. Subject to a successful check, they will also go to Chernomorsk.
09:22 British intelligence believes that Russia is probably at an "advanced stage" of planning "referendums" in the occupied territories, although it is not clear whether the final decision on holding a "vote" has already been made. Analysts note that the Kremlin is likely to view the military's failure to completely occupy the Donetsk region as a failure in achieving its maximalist goals in Ukraine.
09:18 In Nikolaev, as a result of shelling, an educational institution and a hotel in the vicinity of the city were damaged, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said. It was also fired upon. Wide, as a result of which agricultural buildings in households were damaged, there were no victims.
09:16 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of August 15. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Donetsk direction.
- personnel - about 43,750 (+200) people liquidated,
- tanks - 1876 (+12),
- armored combat vehicles - 4141 (+15),
- artillery systems - 985 (+5),
- MLRS - 261 (+0),
- air defense systems - 136 (+0),
- aircraft - 233 (+0),
- helicopters - 195 (+1),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 787 (+3),
- cruise missiles - 187 (+0),
- ships/boats - 15 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 3044 (+5),
- special equipment - 92 (+1).
09:13 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russians fired at two districts at night - Sinelnikovsky and Nikopol. In Nikopol, warehouses, workshops and the administrative premises of an industrial enterprise were destroyed, there were no dead or wounded. An energy infrastructure enterprise was damaged in the Pokrovskaya community, and a social infrastructure facility was destroyed in the Sinelnikovsky district. One Russian X-59 missile was shot down by the Ukrainian military over the region, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
09:08 Vladimir Rogov, a member of the "main administration council" of the occupied Zaporozhye region, proposed to declare a regime of silence around the ZNPP.
09:04 Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko urged every resident of the city to prepare warm home clothes and blankets for the winter. In an interview with Babel, he noted that the temperature in the houses would probably be several degrees below the norm: "The norm is 21 degrees, and maybe 19 or 18."
According to Klitschko, the Cabinet of Ministers assured the city authorities that there will be gas for the population and that it will not rise in price: “This is an expectation. But we do not exclude that there may be terrorist attacks, attacks on gas pumping stations. We also take this scenario into account. We have purchased generators, fuel for these generators.First of all, they will go to hospitals, kindergartens and schools, we will do everything possible and impossible that depends on us to keep the houses warm... If there are power outages, we have generators. there will be no heating or gas, we have reserves of fuel oil. For some time we will be able to function autonomously. But this is a fairly short period of time that is needed to solve the problem."
08:57 This night, the enemy launched intense missile attacks on Kharkov and the region. In particular, more than ten missiles were fired from Russian Belgorod, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkov OVA. In Kharkov, rockets hit the Slobodsky district, the building of the enterprise was damaged, there were no casualties.
In Merefa, an infrastructure facility and an industrial building were damaged, another rocket hit Chuguev, details are being investigated. During the day, the invaders continued shelling Kharkiv, Chuguev, Bogodukhovsky and Izyumsky districts of the region, three local residents were injured.
Meanwhile, the Belgorod channels report that at night there was an unsuccessful rocket launch near the village of Veselaia Lopan. The rocket fell into the village, windows were broken in many houses, there are preliminary victims.
08:51 The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) identified six main geographical groups of Russian troops and other Russian-controlled forces.
08:33 Russians at night fired at two microdistricts of Slavyansk of Donetsk region, including the center with high-rise buildings, there were no victims, Mayor Vadim Lyakh said.
08:11 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of enemy shelling, three civilians were killed - in Bakhmut, Soledar and Maryinka. Another 13 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
07:40 On the Slavic, Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, the Ukrainian military held back enemy assaults, the enemy retreated. In particular, the Russian troops fought offensive battles in the direction of Peskov and Pervomaisky, but were not successful, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning report .
06:43 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Moscow has concentrated on advancing its troops around Bakhmut and, possibly, to Seversk, while simultaneously trying to use the activity of the forces of the "DNR" to seize territories that they have not been able to take since 2014 on Avdeevsky direction. The high concentration of volunteer battalions around Izyum and Slovyansk indicates that the area is not in the Russian focus and may be vulnerable to Ukrainian counterattacks.
At present, the invaders and Ukrainian defenders are actively fighting in the following directions: the city of Kharkiv and the north-eastern part of the Kharkiv region along the Izyum-Slavyansk line; Seversko-Lisichansky district; Bakhmut; area of cities Avdeevka-Donetsk; Southern Ukraine.
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