Business Thursday, August 16. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine Katya Soldak Forbes Staff Forbes Ukraine Forbes Staff Aug 16, 2022, 08:00pm EDT | Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A resident pushes belongings past the damaged homes from a Russian rocket attack early this morning, . . . [+] Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, (AP Photo/David Goldman) Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Dispatches from Ukraine, provided by Forbes Ukraine’s editorial team. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues and the war rages on, reliable sources of information are critical. Forbes Ukraine’s reporters gather information and provide updates on the situation. Tuesday, August 16. Day 174. By Dmytro Aksyonov Two people were injured in an explosion at a military base in a settlement near the town of Dzhankoi in the Crimean peninsula, which Russia invaded and annexed in 2014 but it is Ukraine’s territory. Russian officials have blamed “an act of sabotage” for the explosion, while The New York Times NYT cited an anonymous high-ranking Ukrainian official in reporting the cause of the explosion as “an elite Ukrainian military unit operating behind enemy lines. ” This is the second instance of an explosion at a military base in Crimea in the past week, and Ukrainian officials have said they aim to cut supply lines to Russian forces located in Ukraine’s southern regions. Zaporizhzhia. One woman was killed and six citizens were injured in a rocket attacks on the city of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia region on August 16. Local residential buildings and the civilian infrastructure were damaged, according to the local military administration. A UK Defense Ministry spokesperson told CNN on Tuesday the country denies Russian claims that a British reconnaissance aircraft violated Russian the airspace , saying the aircraft “carried out a routine operation in international airspace over the Norwegian and Barents Seas on Monday, 15 August. ” A spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry had previously accused the UK of carrying out a “deliberate provocation” by requesting permission for its RC-135 spy plane to fly over Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has defended the Ukrainian government’s choice to publicly deny the possibility of a Russian invasion prior to the start of the full-scale war in an interview with The Washington Post. Zelenskyy says that the Ukrainian government was made aware of the threat by senior U. S. officials, including CIA director William Burns, back in autumn, but decided not to reveal the information to the Ukrainian public to avoid mass panic which would have made defending the country more difficult. MORE FOR YOU Pfizer Tests Pill That Could Prevent Covid Infection Liz Cheney Needles Trump For Bashing Bush: ‘I Like Republican Presidents Who Win Re-Election’ Covid Pandemic Slashes Life Expectancy — Here’s Where It Fell The Most U. N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ukraine on Thursday , a U. N. spokesman said . On Friday Guterres will visit the Black Sea port of Odesa, where grain exports have resumed under a U. N. -brokered protection deal. While it is unclear what the topic of conversation between the leaders will be, the Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency cited the Türkiye Communications Directorate in reporting the leader will discuss “the steps that can be taken to end the Ukraine-Russia war through diplomatic means, by increasing the activities of the mechanism established for the export of Ukrainian grain to the world markets. ” Ukraine has returned the bodies of 19 more fallen Russian soldiers, in accordance with the norms of the Geneva convention , bringing the total number of bodies it has returned to 541, reports the Ukrainian Ministry of Reintegration of Occupied Territories. While negotiations between Ukraine and Russia on most issues— including prisoner swaps—have all but stopped, the two sides still regularly exchange bodies. As part of the economic sanctions against Russia, Russian assets worth more than 413 million Canadian dollars (about $320 million) have been frozen in Canada , according to a report from the Canadian Mounted Police. On June 24, the Senate of Canada approved a draft law that allows the confiscation and sale of assets of persons deemed responsible for the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, making Canada the first country to legalize such a mechanism. Katya Soldak Forbes Ukraine Editorial Standards Print Reprints & Permissions.