Gas supplies through the Nord Stream will be suspended from 31 August to 2 September for "maintenance".
The Russian company Gazprom made it known, the announcement immediately caused a rise in the price of gas , which reached a maximum of 262.78 euros (+ 9.04%), before settling at 244.55 euros.
Meanwhile, Putin, in a phone call with Macron, gave the green light to the deployment of an IAEA mission to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant . The Russian president, in the course of a telephone call with the French leader, warned that the bombing of the plant - which the Russians blame in Kiev - pose the risk of a "large-scale catastrophe".
On the war front, during the night, Moscow targeted Mykolaiv and Kharkiv , where loud explosions were heard. A series of attacks also took place in Melitopol , a town in the Zaporizhzhia region occupied by Russian forces. However, Ukraine resists and responds: in fact, multiple attacks by Kiev forces on Crimea and other territories occupied by the Russians are reported, attacks conducted through drones .
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Kiev attacks Crimea with drones
Other drone attacks on Russian targets were reported in Crimea and other occupied parts of Ukraine. The BBC writes it. "Smoke rises over the headquarters of the Russian Federation's Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol," Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne reported this morning, citing local media and posting videos from the scene.
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Moscow: "Kiev attacked us with chemical agents"
Moscow denounces that the Ukrainian army has used chemical agents against Russian troops in the Zaporizhzhia region. The Ministry of Defense, quoted by Interfax and Tass, speaks of signs of "severe poisoning" found in soldiers who have been hospitalized. The agent used, adds Mosca, would be "the Botox type B toxin", according to reports from Russian agencies.
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Bombs on Voznesensk, children seriously injured
The Russian army bombed the city of Voznesensk, in the Mykolaiv region, hitting a five-story residential building and private homes: nine people were injured, including four children. Ukrinform reports it citing what was written on Telegram by the head of the regional military administration, Vitaliy Kim. Hanna Zamazeyeva, head of the regional council, stressed that there are no military facilities and there have never been any near the affected building.
"At the moment, two children injured by the bombing have undergone emergency operations on the spot, in Voznesensk. The third child with serious injuries was taken to the regional assistance center," Zamazeyeva wrote.
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Guterres in Istanbul for grain export supervision
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will travel to Istanbul today to examine the center established in the Turkish city for the coordination of grain exports from Ukraine, through safe corridors in the Black Sea, where delegates from Ankara, Kiev are present. , Moscow and the United Nations. This was announced by the Turkish agency Anadolu.
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Mattarella: "Nasty war of invasion"
"Not far from us, in the heart of Europe, a wicked war is being fought, provoked by the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Europe has risen from Nazi-Fascism precisely by abjuring the will to power and the war that is directed by it. consequence, to totalitarianisms, to ideologies centered on both ethnic-national and ideological supremacy. his own identity ". This was stated by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in a message to the Cl.
(Unioneonline)