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A reactor shut down in Zaporizhzhia, 'there are serious risks'

2022-08-06T12:06:54.277Z


"The bombing yesterday caused a serious risk to the safe operation of the plant," says the Ukrainian atomic energy company. More bombs on Mykolaiv. On the diplomatic front, Erdogan proposes to Putin to meet Zelensky in Turkey. (HANDLE)


One of the reactors of the

Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia

, under the control of Russian forces, was shut down, yesterday's bombing caused a

serious risk

for the safe operation of the plant ", the Ukrainian energy company said today. nuclear power plant, following the attacks that Kiev and Moscow accuse each other of having launched. "Following the attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the emergency protection system was activated on one of the three functioning reactors, which shut down "announced Energoatom in a message on Telegram.

For its part, the Russian army has announced that it has

destroyed a fuel depot of

the Ukrainian army with over 50,000 tons of diesel fuel near Zaporizhzhia, the area where the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is located.

This was reported by the Russian state agency Tass.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a briefing today that the fuel was "destined for the Dnepr operational task force".

Yesterday the rebound of responsibility between Moscow and Kiev on the bombs that hit the territory of the nuclear power plant causing damage to two power lines.

DIPLOMACY


Turkish President Recep Tayyip

Erdogan said he had offered Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Turkey

.

This was reported by the independent Belarusian media Nexta.

Yesterday Erdogan met Putin in Sochi, Russia, to strengthen economic and energy cooperation between the two countries.

It was the second meeting between the two presidents since the start of the war, in July they met in Tehran.

THE SITUATION ON THE FIELD


Two people were seriously injured by new Russian bombing last night on the city of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine: the press service of the regional state administration made it known on Facebook, according to Ukrinform. .

"On the night of August 6, around 03:30 (2:30 in Italy, ed), the enemy launched missile attacks on the city of Mykolaiv, seriously injuring two people. Residential buildings were also damaged", reads in the message.

Yesterday, Russian troops hit the residential districts of the Korabelny district of the city of Mykolaiv, killing one person and injuring 21 others. In addition, 21 houses and the premises of two companies were damaged by the bombing.

Russian forces attacked a farm in the Novomykolaivskyi district of the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine, destroying a silo complex with 3,000 tons of grain, the Kyiv Independent reports.

During another bombing, a warehouse with more than 365 tons of sunflowers was destroyed.

Three people were injured last night following attacks by Russian forces against the districts of Nikopol (south) and Kryvyi Rih (center): the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, Valentyn Reznichenko, said on Telegram. what Ukrinform reports.

"After midnight, the Russian army fired with Mlrs Grad (multiple launch systems, ed) on the Nikopol district and with artillery on the Kryvyi Rih district - wrote Reznichenko -. As usual, they hit residential neighborhoods. , people who were asleep at that time. Twenty rockets hit Nikopol. Three residents were injured. One of them, a 58-year-old man, is in hospital. "

According to Reznichenko, 11 five-storey buildings were damaged, up to 40 private homes,

Moscow is recruiting volunteers to form a new battalion, called 'Samara', to be deployed in Ukraine, which will join the third Army Corps of the Russian armed forces: the Russian journalist Sasha Kots reported by Ukrinform.

According to experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the new battalion will consist of 15,500 men with no previous military experience and aged between 18 and 50, and will be based in Mulino, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, within the Western Military District (WMD).

For his part, the governor of the Russian region of Omsk, Aleksandr Butkov, has announced that the region continues to form three battalions of volunteers - the Irtysh, the Avangard and the Om - to be deployed in Donbass to provide engineering support. , medical and logistic.

Fly,

Russian forces are almost certainly regrouping in southern Ukraine in anticipation of a Kiev counter-offensive or to prepare for a possible assault: British intelligence writes in its daily update on the situation in the country.

Meanwhile, the report published by the Ministry of Defense on Twitter points out, Moscow soldiers are increasingly targeting targets such as bridges, ammunition depots and railway junctions in the southern regions of the country.

The war is about to enter a new phase, concludes the report, in which the heaviest fighting will affect a front of about 350 km, from Zaporizhzhia to Kherson, parallel to the Dnipro River.

About 41,900 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine since the invasion began, according to the Kiev army.

In its update on Moscow's losses so far, the Ukrainian army indicates that 223 fighters, 191 helicopters and 744 drones have also been shot down.

Ukrinform reports it.

In addition, Kiev forces claim to have destroyed 1,802 Russian tanks, 955 artillery systems, 4,051 armored troop transport vehicles, 15 ships and 182 cruise missiles.

Source: ansa

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