"Pending the end of the conflict and the restoration of stable conditions, there is an urgent need for interim measures to prevent a nuclear accident from being caused by physical damage caused by military instruments".
After the mission to Zaporizhzhia , the International Atomic Energy Agency denounces an "unsustainable" situation and talks about the risks of a disaster in the largest nuclear power plant in Europe , at the center of the clashes in Ukraine for weeks, which "may have a serious impact in the country and beyond its borders ".
For this reason, UN experts launch an appeal for "the urgent creation of a nuclear safety protection zone" . The situation is "unprecedented", warns the IAEA in a 52-page report highlighting all the critical issues that emerged in the visit concluded a few hours ago.
"It is the first time that a military conflict has taken place between the structures" of a power plant of this size, underlines the document drawn up by the technicians, who "observed damage in various areas caused by the events reported" in relation to the conflict, "with some of the damage near the reactor buildings ".
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Zelensky: "Agreement with Truss for further pressure on Moscow"
"I coordinated further pressure on Moscow with Liz Truss": this is how Ukrainian president Voldymyr Zelensky, "the first foreign leader to speak with the new British prime minister", on social media. "I invited her to visit Ukraine", he adds, underlining that he maintained that "it is important to designate Russia as a terrorist state".
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Aiea: "Damage even near the Zaporizhzhia reactor"
The International Atomic Energy Agency mission to the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia "observed damage in several areas caused by the reported events" in connection with the conflict, "with some of the damage near the reactor buildings". The IAEA writes this in its 52-page report released this afternoon. The experts, the text continues, "observed that some repair work had already been carried out or were in progress for some of the damage and noted that further work would be needed to repair all the damage caused".
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Aiea: "We need a safety zone around Zaporizhzhia"
In the report on the results of the mission in the Zaporizhzhia power plant, the IAEA asked for the bombing of the plant and its surroundings to be stopped in order to maintain the physical integrity of the plant and therefore to establish "a safety zone". This is what Ria Novosti reports.
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236 missing children since the beginning of the conflict
Since the start of the Russian invasion, 236 children are considered missing. This was announced by the press service of the Ukrainian Ombudsman's Office quoted by Ukrinform. "Information from the state portal 'Children of War' to search for missing children as of September 6, 2022: 236 missing, 7,343 deportees, 5,391 found and 55 returned," the Office said. According to the Attorney General's Office, 741 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of Russian armed aggression.
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Kiev, Russians encircled on the right bank of the Dnieper
A senior Ukrainian presidential adviser said Ukrainian forces are conducting counter-offensive actions not only in the south but also in the east and south-east of the country. Oleksiy Arestovych on his Telegram channel said that "since the beginning of the liberation operation of Southern Ukraine, the army has liberated several settlements on the western bank of the Dnieper. These are subtle movements on the map. But the initiation of actions. counter-offensive on various sectors of the front on our part speaks of a change in the situation as a whole ". Arestovych also said that Russian forces on the right bank of the Dnieper are in "operational encirclement" and predicted that within a month their position will be "extremely difficult".
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Media, "Russia buys missiles from Pyongyang"
The Russian Defense Ministry has launched an operation to purchase missiles from North Korea in order to upgrade its arsenal needed for the offensive in Ukraine. This is what emerges from US intelligence information cited by American media and also taken up by the Guardian. A US source, speaking under anonymity, also stressed that the fact that Moscow is addressing Pyongyang demonstrates that "the Russian army continues to suffer from the severe shortage of supplies in Ukraine, also due to export controls and sanctions. ". US intelligence officials also believe that the Russians may seek to purchase additional North Korean military equipment in the future, according to revelations the New York Times first reported.
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The Russians bomb the Nikopol district, injured civilians
The Russian army bombed the Nikopol district, in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine, with Grad Mlrs, civilians were injured. Ukrinform reports it. "The Russian occupation forces hit the district with Grad Mlrs three times. In Nikopol residential neighborhoods were hit. Two people were injured: a man and a woman. They were taken to hospital. Doctors assess their condition. as moderate, "wrote Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, on Telegram. Twenty apartment buildings and 11 private buildings were damaged in the city. A house was destroyed. Enemy bullets hit a kindergarten, two schools, a creative center and a sports club. Several gas lines and cars were damaged. Several power lines were also interrupted. More than 2,000 families were left without electricity.