WAR in Ukraine Day 172 (August 14, 2022) – Topky.sk

Live from Ukraine After Russia’s war against Ukraine, neither smoldering nor frozen conflict should remain, says Zelensky ONLINE Load new news 22:00 Today’s online ends. Thank you for your attention. 20:50 Dozens of countries and the European Union on Sunday demanded the immediate withdrawal of Russian soldiers from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. TASR took over the report from the DPA agency. “The deployment of Russian military personnel and weapons near the nuclear facility is unacceptable and disregards the protection, safety and security principles to which all members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are committed,” the countries said in a joint statement. 18:20 The risk of a disaster at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in the town of Enerhodar, which is occupied by the Russian armed forces, increases every day. This was stated by the mayor of Enerhodar, Dmytro Orlov, on Sunday, TASR reports based on a report by the AFP agency. “What is happening there is downright nuclear terrorism and it can end unpredictably at any time. The risks are increasing every day,” Orlov said. 17:05 People in the eastern Ukrainian city of Rubizhne have started exhuming bodies that were hastily buried in the yards of houses during the height of the fighting against the Russian invading soldiers. Now Ukrainians want to lay the dead to eternal rest with dignity. This was reported by the Reuters news agency on Sunday. Rubizhne belongs to Ukraine’s Luhansk region, which was completely controlled by Russian armed forces at the beginning of July, more than four months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin calls it a “special military operation”. 16:45 A Russian diplomat called on Ukraine to provide security guarantees and allow international experts to visit the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is facing shelling. TASR received the report from the AP agency on Sunday. “It is important that the Ukrainians stop shelling the power plant and provide security guarantees to the members of the mission,” said Mikhail Ulyanov, a Russian diplomat and permanent representative of Russia to international organizations in Vienna, whose comments were recorded by Russian media. According to him, a mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should visit the power plant. 13:27 Ukraine again calls for the evacuation of civilians from the Russian-occupied parts of the Kherson region. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk called on Ukrainians who remain in the occupied territories of the Kherson region to flee their homes, stressing that “a hard winter is coming”. 12:30 The former commander of Russian separatists in Donbas, Igor Girkin, also known as Strelkov, was detained in Crimea. Some Russian and Ukrainian media reported on the detention, but no one officially confirmed it. Girkin allegedly shaved off his trademark beard and tried to use a fake passport under the name of Sergey Runov to get to the front in the Kherson region, where he wanted to fight against Ukraine. It is not clear why the Russians detained him. 11:53 Poland is considering restricting the issuance of visas to Russian citizens, following the example of Estonia and Latvia. He also supports the European Union imposing further sanctions on Russia for the war in Ukraine. TASR received the report from the DPA agency on Sunday. 11:19 Russian tourists will be welcomed by the popular Finnish waterfalls in the city of Imatra with the Ukrainian anthem in protest against the Russian invasion, AFP wrote. 10:45 Ukraine repelled a Russian attack on two villages in the Donetsk region. The governor of Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said the Ukrainian army had pushed Russian forces out of the villages of Spirne and Serebrianka, near the heavily contested Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. 10:00 a.m. 3,693 people from Ukraine crossed border crossings to Slovakia on Saturday (August 13). Of these, there were 764 men, 2095 women and 834 children. TASR was informed about this by Zuzana Eliášová, spokeswoman for the Ministry of the Interior (MV) of the Slovak Republic. 9:57 In Kyiv, artist Varvara Logvin decorates anti-tank defenses with Ukrainian ornaments. 9:04 a.m. The Russian army’s priority for the last week was apparently to reorient troops to strengthen positions in southern Ukraine. The British Ministry of Defense stated this in its regular report today. However, the fighting in Donbas continues. Russian-backed forces, mainly militias of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic (DLR), continue to attack the north of Donetsk city. 8:29 These are the losses of the Russian side according to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 07:08 Amnesty International’s report on the armed forces of Ukraine will be checked by independent experts. The human rights organization “wants to understand exactly what went wrong.” 6:28 In Kyiv, the Soviet coat of arms will be removed from the shield of the Monument to the Fatherland next year, reports journalist Oleksandr Tkachenko. 6:00 In Izhevsk, Russian activists wrote the word “fascists” right next to the letter “Z”, which has become a symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to Zelensky, Ukraine targets Russian soldiers shelling the nuclear power plant Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of shelling the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. “Every Russian soldier who either shoots at a power plant or shoots using a power plant as a shield must understand that he becomes a special target for our intelligence officers, for our special forces, for our army,” Zelenskyy said in his regular evening address. The Ukrainian president repeated the claim that Russia is abusing power plants for nuclear blackmail. Ukrainian military intelligence officers previously warned of new Russian “provocations” around the power plant. The adviser to the Ukrainian president, Mykhailo Podoljak, today accused Russia of shelling the part of the nuclear power plant that produces electricity for the south of Ukraine.