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News on the Ukraine war: Crimea summit scheduled for Tuesday

+++ 8.45 p.m.: Six months after the start of the war, Ukraine wants to hold an online summit this Tuesday (August 23) to recapture Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, representatives of the attacked country repeatedly spoke of a military reconquest of the peninsula.

At the so-called Crimean Platform, which is taking place for the second time, a speech by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is expected. Also scheduled to speak are Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. A total of over 50 participants from Europe, Asia, America and Africa have been announced.

+++ 6.40 p.m.: After the attack on the daughter of Kremlin intellectual Alexander Dugin, President Vladimir Putin called the attack a “shameful, cruel crime”. As reported by Russian media, the actual target of the attack was Dugina’s father, who is considered the Kremlin chief’s mastermind. The ultra-nationalist Dugin represents the ideology of uniting Russian-speaking areas in a new Russian empire.

Ukraine war: Massive rocket attacks near nuclear power plant – “Russian provocations”

+++ 5.30 p.m.: Ukrainian authorities have warned residents near the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant of a “Russian provocation”. In particular, the head of the military administration of the Nikopol district urged the people of Kakhovka to “leave the streets and avoid mass gatherings,” according to the Ukrainian news portal New Voice communicated.

Nikopol is located directly opposite the power plant on the other side of the Dnieper River, while Kakhovka is a little further down the river. Earlier, Ukraine’s state nuclear company announced that Russia was planning a major false flag operation near Zaporizhia. Russian troops use the power plant as a military base and from there repeatedly attack Ukrainian towns on the other side of the river.

News about the Ukraine war: rocket attacks in the Zaporizhia region

+++ 3.25 p.m.: Russia is said to have carried out massive rocket attacks in the Zaporizhia region. Six towns near the nuclear power plant of the same name had been shot at, the Ukrainian National Police said on Monday (August 22). Civilian infrastructure is said to have been destroyed in the attack. In addition to residential buildings, there is a shopping area, a sports complex and a facility for the rehabilitation of people with disabilities. It is not yet clear whether people were injured or killed in the attack.

+++ 1.45 p.m.: The authorities in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv have banned all major events and rallies around Independence Day on August 24 for fear of Russian missile attacks. The ban applies from Monday to Thursday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned over the weekend that Russia could do “something particularly evil” on the 31st anniversary of independence on August 24, which this time also marks the start of the Russian invasion six months ago.

Ukraine war news: detonations in ammunition depot

+++ 12.05 p.m.: Russian forces are apparently continuing to advance in eastern Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian General Staff, the area around the industrial town of Bakhmut in the north of the Donetsk region has been attacked with artillery and rocket launchers. It was also said that the Russian troops were trying to hold captured areas in Cherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and Mykolaiv. Meanwhile, the shelling of the town of Nikopol near Zaporizhia has fueled concerns about the safety of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

+++ 10.00 a.m.: A detonation has apparently occurred in an ammunition depot in Russian-occupied Donetsk. The Russian State News Agency Ria Novosti reports that Ukrainian troops hit warehouses near a supermarket. Social media users posted videos of the explosions.

News about the Ukraine war: Unmotivated separatists? They are said to be refusing Russian orders

Update from Monday, August 22, 08:45: According to British assessments, Russia is finding it increasingly difficult to motivate its auxiliary troops from the separatist areas to take part in the Ukraine war. Some commanders would probably promise their soldiers financial incentives, said the Ministry of Defense in London, citing intelligence findings. Some associations would be considered unreliable and therefore not tasked with attacks.

The ministry referred to a video from mid-August in which members of a unit of the self-proclaimed “Luhansk People’s Republic” are said to have refused to take part in offensive operations. Despite threats and intimidation, the men did not want to continue fighting in the neighboring “Donetsk People’s Republic”. The fact that Russia continues to classify the war as a “military special operation” contributes to these problems, it said in London. Because without general mobilization, the state would have no legal recourse to force citizens into military service and will continue to be dependent on auxiliary troops.

News about the Ukraine war: Flying objects shot down over Crimea

First report from Monday, August 22nd: Kyiv/Moscow – The Ukraine war has now lasted almost half a year. Now the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has honored several compatriots for their special merits. Among others, football legend Andriy Shevchenko, who used his fame to help Ukraine, received the order “National Legend of Ukraine”, Zelenskyy announced on Telegram on Monday night. The honorees also include a train conductor who brought fleeing people from particularly hard-fought areas and whose wife was killed on one of the journeys.

News about the Ukraine war: Russian anti-aircraft defense again active over Crimea

According to the authorities, another attempted Ukrainian attack has been fended off over Crimea. Russian anti-aircraft defenses hit “objects” approaching the Belbek airbase near Sevastopol, the city’s chief administrator, Mikhail Rasvozhayev, wrote on Telegram.

In Crimea, which belongs to Ukraine under international law but was annexed by Russia, there have recently been repeated explosions, some of them serious, including in an ammunition depot. Ukraine received this with satisfaction, but did not accept responsibility for the detonations.

News about the Ukraine war: Russian attacks in the east and south of Ukraine repelled

According to Ukraine, it has fended off several Russian attacks in the east and south of the country. For example, Russian advances in the eastern region of Donetsk in the direction of the cities of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Avdiivka were repelled, the Ukrainian general staff said on Sunday evening. The information could not be independently verified.

From Kyiv it was also said that from Monday (August 22) Russia wanted to close the airspace for a few days in parts of the Voronezh and Belgorod regions bordering Ukraine and in some areas of the Lipetsk region a little further inland. There was no confirmation of this from the Russian side.

News about the Ukraine war: shock in Moscow after the death of Dugin’s daughter

Moscow is shocked by the alleged murder of Darja Dugina, daughter of right-wing nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin. “Alexander Gelyevich, your tragedy has become the pain of millions,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Dugin on Telegram. His daughter was considered an ardent supporter of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Ukraine has denied involvement in the incident.

News about the Ukraine war: Scholz, Baerbock and Lindner comment

On Monday (August 22), Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) wants to speak to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal – among other things, about help for Ukraine. Scholz is traveling in Canada for three days together with Economics and Climate Minister Robert Habeck (Greens).

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) defended German arms deliveries to support Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to negotiate the simplest of issues such as international humanitarian law, and there is no response to attempts at mediation, criticized the Greens politician at the Federal Foreign Office at the federal government’s open day in Berlin. Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) has meanwhile announced that he wants to travel to Kyiv in late summer or autumn. (tk with dpa)