Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, which is under Russian occupation, has been reconnected to the power grid after yesterday’s disconnection, the operator, Ukraine’s Energoatom, announced. “One of the reactors of the Zaporizhia plant that had stopped operating yesterday was reconnected to the power grid today,” Energoatom announced on Telegram, assuring that the safety […]
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Russia says it destroyed howitzer used to bomb Zaporizhia nuclear plant
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that its forces had destroyed a US-made M777 howitzer that it said Ukraine had used to bomb the Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. In its daily update, the defense ministry said the howitzer was destroyed west of the city of Marganets, in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. Reuters could not […]
Ukraine: Authorities are working to reconnect the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to the power grid
LAST UPDATE: 12:19 p.m All six reactors at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine remain disconnected from the country’s power grid, Ukraine’s state nuclear power agency Energoatom said. However, Energoatom added that at the moment the nuclear plant’s machinery and safety systems are working normally. A Russian official in the occupied part of […]
Ukraine is weighing its operational capabilities by losing 200 soldiers a day
By David Axe About 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the Russian invasion began in late February, according to figures released this week by Ukrainian General Valery Zaluzny. It is the first official death toll announced by Kyiv in these six months of hostilities, helping to account for the heaviest Russian losses. The main […]
State Department: Electricity generated by Zaporizhia belongs to Ukrainians
The State Department tonight described as “unacceptable” any attempt by Russia to appropriate Ukraine’s nuclear power, where earlier today the Russian-held Zaporizhia nuclear power plant was disconnected from the national grid. “The electricity it generates is de facto owned by Ukraine and any attempt to disconnect the station from the Ukrainian grid to redirect (the […]
Kyiv renames 95 streets as part of ‘de-Russianisation’
Ukraine’s capital renamed 95 streets today as part of an effort to “cleanse” Russian and Soviet names, Kyiv’s mayor announced, a day after the country celebrated 31 years of independence. Since Russia’s invasion in February, Ukrainian authorities have stepped up “de-Russianisation”, a campaign to erase the legacy of centuries of rule by Moscow. Kyiv mayor […]
Another three ships with grain sailed from Ukraine, the Turkish Defense Ministry reports
Three more ships have left Ukrainian ports under the Istanbul grain export agreement, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced on Thursday. While one ship departed from the port of Pivdennyi in the Ukrainian city of Yuzhne, two ships departed from the port of Odessa, the ministry said in a statement. The Joint Coordination Center, […]
Zaporizhia Nuclear Plant: IAEA ‘very, very close’ to gaining access
LAST UPDATE: 17.37 The International Atomic Energy Agency is “very, very close” to gaining access to the Russian-held Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Europe’s largest, its head Raphael Grossi told France 24 TV today. Asked if talks to gain access to the station were successful, in which case Grossi has said the IAEA will […]
Russia makes massive use of cluster munitions in Ukraine, cluster munitions watchdog says
Russia is making massive use of cluster weapons in Ukraine, causing hundreds of civilian casualties and destroying homes, schools and hospitals, the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) reports in its annual report. “Ukrainian forces also appear to have made repeated use of such weapons during the conflict,” according to the agency. Neither Russia nor Ukraine have […]
Ukraine: Warnings to the Security Council on the safety of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant
At least 22 people were killed Wednesday in Russian shelling of the railway station in Chaplino, central Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. At the same time, more than 50 people have been injured by the attack, according to previous information, while search and rescue operations continue. “Today we ache for Chaplino,” Zelensky said, with […]
