War in Ukraine
Updated on September 29, 2023, 5:23 a.m
Ukrainian refugees after their registration in Hamburg. (symbol image)
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Russia has been occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant for months, creating an enormous security risk. The member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency are calling for the withdrawal of troops. Meanwhile, certainty has been created in the EU about special rules for refugees from Ukraine.
The member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have demanded that Russia immediately withdraw from the occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia.
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IAEA states call for Russian soldiers to withdraw
Soldiers must withdraw and the facility must be brought back under Ukrainian control, said a resolution adopted at the IAEA’s annual general conference in Vienna.
The resolution also called for IAEA observers permanently stationed at the nuclear power plant to be given free access to all areas of the facility. So far, the IAEA team has been denied access to several reactor roofs.
Zelensky: Ukraine deserves NATO membership
After NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s visit to Kiev, Zelensky once again insisted on his country’s membership in the Western military alliance.
“Ukraine deserves to become a NATO member – and it will be,” said Zelensky in his evening video address on Thursday. “We are working to make practical progress on NATO membership.” Stoltenberg had visited Ukraine for the second time since the beginning of the war.
Ukraine refugees should continue to benefit from special rules in the EU
War refugees from Ukraine can stay in the EU without any problems at least until March 2025. The EU interior ministers agreed on this in Brussels.
The extension of the special rules offers certainty for the more than four million Ukrainian refugees who have found a safe haven in the EU, said the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council of Interior Ministers.
Poland’s justice minister sees Ukraine behind missile accident
A rocket that hit Poland near the border ten months ago actually came from Ukraine, according to Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro.
According to the PAP agency in Lublin, an expert report commissioned by the public prosecutor’s office showed that it was a Ukrainian rocket of Soviet or Russian production. Two people were killed when the rocket hit Przewodow, Poland.
What will be important on Friday:
This Friday, Russia is celebrating the first anniversary of the annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk with a major concert on Red Square in Moscow. The Kremlin wants to use the concert planned with the participation of Russian pop stars such as Dima Bilan and Sergei Lazarev (starting at 4:30 p.m. CEST) primarily as a domestic political demonstration of power.
Meanwhile, in Berlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) wants to initiate closer cooperation with the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. For the first time, he will receive the heads of state of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan for a joint summit in the Chancellery. (dpa/fte)
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