Ukrainian forces have resumed shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant : local sources of the Russian administration of the occupied territory say this, quoted by the Tass agency. According to Vladimir Rogov, adviser to the (Russian) military and civil administration of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, "the nuclear power plant is again under artillery fire from Zelensky militants. In two hours, at least four attacks have rained in the area. of the Zaporizhzhia power plant ", writes Tass.
The circumstance worries the IAEA, whose technicians are still in the plant. The situation, however, says the director of the Grossi agency, who will report to the UN on Tuesday, " is not in any case comparable with Chernobyl ".
Moscow also announced that it "thwarted a new attempted assault by Ukrainian forces against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant last night".
"At 23 Moscow time, two groups of boats with a landing force of 250 special forces and foreign mercenaries attempted to infiltrate the coast near Energodar and Dneproprudny," reads a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry. "Four Su-30s fighters and two Ka-52 VKS helicopters that destroyed 20 out of 42 boats" went into action. The victims would be "almost 50" .
Meanwhile Zelensky applauds the G7's decision to impose a ceiling on the price of Russian oil and calls for the same move on gas: "It would restore justice for all Europeans, Russia is trying to blackmail with artificially inflated prices ".
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Chechnya, Kadyrov: "Ready to leave"
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced that he intends to take an "indefinite and long" break from his post. In a video posted on Telegram, Kadyrov, who has ruled the Russian Chechen Republic with an iron fist since 2007, said he "realized that he was
sat for a long time "to occupy his position of power and that" the time has come "to leave. The Guardian reports this, but the Russian agency Tass also confirms Kadyrov's intentions." I think my time has come before the others kick me out, "he adds.
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Kiev: "Violent Russian raids in the Chernihiv region"
Relentless and violent Russian raids were reported today in the Chernihiv region by the Ukrainian authorities. The head of the regional military administration reported "more than 50 explosions in the village of Mykhalchyna Sloboda", but no civilian casualties have been reported to date. However, as a result of the bombing, the residential and commercial buildings suffered damage. Also under attack Melitopol, in the region of Zaporizhzhia, temporarily occupied by the Russians, where explosions were heard at the airport, according to Mayor Ivan Fedorov.
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Medvedev: "The West plays chess with death"
In a post on the Russian social network Vkontake quoted by the Guardian, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused the West of playing a "game of chess with death" in his support for Ukraine, accusing Western countries of wanting to take advantage of the conflict to "do everything possible to make Russia's state institutions stop functioning" and to "deprive Russia of effective governance, as in 1991". "These attempts - adds the former Russian president - are really extremely dangerous" because "they ignore a simple axiom: the violent disintegration of a nuclear power is always a game of chess with death".
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Moscow: "Kiev attack on the power plant foiled"
Moscow "thwarted a new attempted assault by Ukrainian forces against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant yesterday evening": the defense ministry announced, quoted by Russian agencies.
"At 11pm Moscow time, two groups of boats with a landing force of 250 special forces and foreign mercenaries attempted to infiltrate the coast near Energodar and Dneproprudny," reads a statement.
"Four Su-30s fighters and two Ka-52 VKS helicopters that destroyed 20 out of 42 boats" went into action. The victims would be "almost 50".
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Erdogan to Putin: "Turkey can mediate on the nuclear power plant"
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, said that Turkey is ready to mediate the tug-of-war between Russia and Ukraine over the nuclear power plant. This was announced by the Turkish presidency.
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Kiev: "The war will end when we liberate all our territories"
"Officials of the Russian Federation repeat a strange mantra: 'The special military operation will be completed in time', 'The West delays its completion.' It seems that they have understood nothing. Ukraine will determine the end of the war by freeing the their territories. As well as the amount of payments for repairs ". The advisor to the Ukrainian President Zelensky, Mykhailo Podoliak, writes on twitter, reiterating the Ukrainian determination not to give up.
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Medvedev: "Nuclear arsenal a guarantee to preserve Russia"
"The entire strategic nuclear arsenal has remained in our country. And it is supported by us at a very high level. And this is the best guarantee for preserving Russia's power." Thus the vice president of the Russian Security Council Dmitri Medvedev unleashes a long post on telegram accusing the West of wanting to "take advantage of the military conflict in Ukraine" for "a new cycle of disintegration" of Russian institutions after the collapse of the USSR. "It is clear that all these are dirty dreams," Medvedev writes of those who think "about how to tear us apart. But such attempts are indeed extremely dangerous".
(Unioneonline)
