"Tonight about 60 'Grad' rockets hit the coastal settlements between Nikopol and Zaporizhzhia, 40 of them on the village of Marhanets", on the north bank of the Dnipro River, just 10 km from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on the south bank .
This was announced on Telegram by Yevhen Yevtushenko, the head of the military administration of the district of nearby Nikopol.
" Homes, buildings, pipelines and power grids were damaged . Two people were injured, one of whom, a 64-year-old man, is in hospital with serious injuries," added Yevtushenko.
The nuclear power plant is located in the city of Enerhodar , in southeastern Ukraine, along the Dnipro River, a territory where Russian forces have gained an outpost and which they largely control. And in these hours she has returned to the center of the conflict - in fire and words - between Russia and Ukraine.
Moscow and Kiev attribute to each other the responsibility for a new attack, Friday, near the nuclear site which is as strategic as it is now symbolic, with Kiev underlining the gravity and danger of the gesture, to the point of asking for a stance from the UN and IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, to demand that the Russians leave the territory of the plant that has been occupied for some time, handing it over to the control of a special commission.
As for the first ship loaded with grain to leave a Ukrainian port following last month's negotiations, it is reported that it will not arrive in Lebanon today , as it was expected. This was stated by the Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon, quoted by the Reuters website. According to Ukrainian officials and Lebanese port authorities, Razoni, which left the Black Sea port of Odessa on Monday carrying 26,527 tons of corn, was due to dock today in the port city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon. But today the Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon said the ship "was being delayed" and "did not arrive today", without giving details of a new arrival date or the cause of the delay.
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16.32 - Kiev, today 50 bombings, 16 dead in Donetsk and Mykolaiv
Sixteen civilians were killed in the approximately 50 bombings launched today by the Russian army on the Donetsk and Mykolaiv regions. This was reported by the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior quoted by Ukrinform. "Today, about 46 bombings were recorded in which 16 people were killed, and we still have dozens of injured. The Russians are mainly hitting the Donetsk and Mykolaiv regions. But the rockets also fly in the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia regions and in several other regions of the country, "said Deputy Prime Minister of the Interior Yevhenii Yenin.
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3.12 pm - Kiev, 3.5 million Ukrainians homeless due to the war
Over three and a half million Ukrainians have been left homeless since the Russian invasion began. The data was disclosed by the United24 fundraising platform, cited by Ukrinform. "According to the Center for Combating Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, housing stock was targeted by the Federation army 60 times more often than military targets," the report read. Currently, over 50% of the housing stock has been damaged or destroyed in Mariupol, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Bucha, Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.
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2 pm - Moscow: "300 Ukrainian soldiers killed in 24 hours"
Russian forces have launched air strikes against Ukrainian National Guard and Army posts in Artemivsk, Dzerzhinsk and Kharkiv in the past 24 hours, killing over 300 Ukrainian soldiers, the Russian Defense Ministry announced today, according to Interfax. In addition, Moscow troops destroyed three Kiev army command posts and carried out attacks on Ukrainian troops and equipment in 173 areas of the country.
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12.20 pm - The Pope: "The departure of the ships is well, let them be the way to peace"
"I would like to greet with satisfaction the departure from the Ukrainian ports of the first ships loaded with cereals". Thus the Pope at the Angelus. "This step shows that it is possible to dialogue and achieve concrete results that benefit everyone", continued Francis. "Therefore, this event is also presented as a sign of hope - he added - and I sincerely hope that by following this path we can put an end to the fighting and reach a just and lasting peace".
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11 am - 4 other ships leave, including the one for Italy
Four ships with Ukrainian food products, including one with 6,000 tons of sunflower oil destined for Italy, left today from Ukrainian Black Sea ports as part of an agreement to unblock the country's sea exports. Ukrainian and Turkish officials said, as reported by the Guardian. The ship bound for Italy, in Monopoli, is the MV Mustafa Necati. The other three are MV Glory, headed to Istanbul with 66 thousand tons of wheat; Mv Star Helena, bound for Nantong / Machong (China) with 45,000 tons of flour; and Mv Riva Wind, bound for Iskenderun (Turkey) with 44 thousand tons of wheat.
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10.20 am - Aiea: "One of our team must go to Zaporizhzhia"
The team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) "must travel to Zaporizhzhia, just as we did in Chernobyl and southern Ukraine earlier this year. We can put together a safety, security and safeguard mission and provide the indispensable assistance and impartial evaluation that is needed. " The director general of the IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, writes it today in a tweet. Yesterday, referring to the Zaporizhzhia plant, Grossi said he was "extremely worried about Friday's bombing" of the plant, "which underlines the very real risk of a nuclear disaster".
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9.05 am - 703 children injured since the beginning of the invasion
The number of children injured in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion has risen to at least 703 in the last 24 hours, while the death toll has remained unchanged at 361: the Attorney General's office announced today on Telegram of Kiev, according to Ukrinform.
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8.30 - Zelensky: "Russian terror in Zaporizhzhia"
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "for terror" after the investigation of serious damage to the structure. Kiev and Moscow blamed each other for the attacks on the Zaporizhzhia power plant, the largest nuclear complex in Europe. Zelensky, in his Saturday evening speech, once again accused Moscow of terrorism stating that "Russian terrorists have become the first in the world to use the central for terrorism".
(Unioneonline)
