Oil supplies through the pipeline were suspended on August 4 to the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. Russian oil flows to the Czech Republic through the Druzhba pipeline resumed on August 12 after more than a week, Czech pipeline operator MERO said. Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said on August 13 that five civilians had been killed in the region by Russian shelling over the past 24 hours. Still, fighting continue in pockets around the Donbas. We feel the result of the work on their warehouses - it has become a little quieter in Mykolayiv, but the region is being shelled," he said. There is a shortage of ammunition among the Russians. Ukraine's commanders also said warplanes attacked five Russian weapons and equipment stashes in the Mykolayiv and Kherson regions.ĭmytro Pletenchuk, a press spokesman for the Mykolayiv military administration, said Russian forces were suffering from an ammunition shortage, due mainly to Ukrainian forces hitting depots. With the focus of fighting shifting away from the eastern Donbas region to Ukraine's southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine's military said it struck a fourth bridge spanning the Dnieper River.īritish military intelligence said in its daily assessment on August 13 that this further crimped Russia's ability to resupply forces on the river's northwest, or right, bank. Instead, urgent agreement is needed at a technical level on a safe perimeter of demilitarization to ensure the safety of the area," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement on August 12. "The facility must not be used as part of any military operation. Western countries have called for Moscow to withdraw its forces from the plant. Ukrainian engineers are operating the facility under Russian supervision. The facility has been under Russian control since shortly after the February 24 invasion. For all of RFE/RL's coverage of the war, click here. RFE/RL's Live Briefinggives you all of the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, how Kyiv is fighting back, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians.
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