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Di Maio in Kiev, will see Zelensky

2022-08-25T13:02:45.851Z


Foreign Minister Irpin: 'Ukrainians also defend our freedom'. Meanwhile, the toll of the attack on the Chaplyne railway station has risen to 25 dead (ANSA)


Foreign Minister

Luigi Di Maio is in Kiev

to meet Ukrainian President

Volodymyr Zelensky

and his counterpart Dmytro Kuleba.

"We must hope that nothing changes, that we continue to support this country with all possible strength because Ukraine is the frontier of Europe, it is not only defending itself", Di Maio told Irpin, responding to those who ask if with the next government, Italy's attitude towards Kiev will change.

"Here in Irpin there is a city destroyed, razed to the ground, and in Italy there are still those who deny the facts that occurred at the hands of the Russian troops, by Putin", adds the head of the Farnesina.

"We could only help and support this people, other than providing them with all the help we can to defend themselves from the invader. The Ukrainians are not only defending themselves but are defending the freedom of all of Europe and we must choose which side to take. . As the Italian government, we have chosen to be on the side of the Ukrainian people. In defending Europe, we can only encourage them to continue ".

"For our part - continued the head of the Farnesina - we will continue to give the utmost closeness to the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian government. We will do it with visits but we must also do it with facts: we were one of the countries that gave the most aid to the Ukrainian resistance, we have given important financial and humanitarian aid and we must do even more ".

ATTACK ON CHAPLYNE RAILWAY STATION The

toll from the attack on Chaplyn railway station


and, in the Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, has risen to 25 dead

, according to the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Kirill Tymoshenko, taken from Novaya Gazeta Europe.

"The EU strongly condemns another atrocious attack by Russia against civilians - wrote on Twitter the high representative of EU foreign policy Josep Borrell -: in Chaplyne on Ukraine's independence day. Those responsible for Russian missile terrorism they will be called to answer ".

According to the Moscow Ministry of Defense, quoted by Interfax, in the Ukrainian station the Russians hit a military train, killing more than 200 soldiers.

The attack was carried out with an Iskander missile.

THE SITUATION IN ZAPORIZHZHIA


The director general of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, in an exclusive interview with France 24, expressed the hope that the International Atomic Energy Agency's visit to the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant will take place in "days" by the Russians in southern Ukraine.

Asked if the talks for an agreement with the Russians on access to the facility were successful, Grossi specified that "we are very, very close", warning however that the operation was "extremely complex".

"We have to go there, we have to stabilize the situation, we have to guarantee an IAEA presence soon", he then underlined.

Russia has developed a detailed plan to disconnect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from the Ukrainian electricity grid, thus risking a catastrophic failure of the cooling systems: thus in an interview with the Guardian, the president of the Ukrainian atomic agency Energoatom, Petro Kotin.

World leaders, the newspaper recalls, have asked for the site to be demilitarized after the publication of footage of Russian army vehicles inside the plant and previously warned Moscow not to disconnect it from the Ukrainian network to connect it to the Russian one.

Kotin, however, said Russian engineers had already worked out a switching plan to be implemented in the event of a war-related emergency.

"They presented (the plan) to the plant employees and they presented it to us.

Source: ansa

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