Status: 09.08.2022 1:59 p.m
According to the Russian army, it has stationed anti-aircraft units around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. Heavy fighting continues to be reported from southern and eastern Ukraine. Grain exports continue.
According to Russia, it has deployed air defense systems around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. “The power plant’s air defense systems will be strengthened,” Yevgeny Balitsky, head of Moscow’s military administration in the region, told Russian state television.
In the past few days, Ukraine and Russia had accused each other of shelling the nuclear power plant. The UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had shown great concern about the risk of an incident at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
The power plant is currently operating normally, Balizki said. The damage to power lines and kilns have been repaired. The USA had previously stated that no radiation had escaped so far.
Shaded in white: advance of the Russian army. Shaded in green: Russian-backed separatist areas. Crimea: annexed by Russia.
Image: ISW/08/08/2022
Ukraine: Attacks also near the nuclear power plant
The governor of Zaporizhia’s neighboring Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Resnichenko, reported a Russian attack near the power plant. According to this, more than 120 projectiles were fired at the city of Nikopol with multiple rocket launchers. Residential houses and industrial plants were damaged in the village opposite the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant on the other bank of the Dnieper.
According to Ukrainian sources, three civilians have been killed and 23 others injured in the past 24 hours.
conflicting parties as a source
Information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by official bodies of the Russian and Ukrainian conflict parties cannot be directly checked by an independent body in the current situation.
Fighting for Donetsk and Kherson
Ukrainian authorities are reporting violent attacks by Russian troops from the area around the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. In attack waves, they would try to make further gains in terrain. “The situation in the region is tense – the entire front line is under constant fire,” Donetsk Region Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told Ukrainian television.
Ukrainian troops recaptured a town near Kharkiv, said adviser to the Ukrainian President Oleksiy Arestovych.
Heavy fighting is also being reported from the south of the country: Ukrainian units have again attacked bridges across the Dnieper, which the Russian army needs for supplies in occupied Cherson.
conflicting parties as a source
Information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by official bodies of the Russian and Ukrainian conflict parties cannot be directly checked by an independent body in the current situation.
Grain export continues
The agreements between Russia, Ukraine, the UN and Turkey on the export of Ukrainian grain are apparently still being observed. Two other freighters with a total of 70,000 tons of grain on board left the Black Sea port of Chornomorsk. About 5,300 tons of it should go to Turkey, the remaining almost 65,000 tons to South Korea, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure. On Monday the first ship had reached its destination port.
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war in Ukraine