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Ukraine war: Shelling of nuclear power plants - Russia wants to defend itself against "lies".

2022-09-19T11:08:14.213Z


During the Ukraine war, Kyiv reports a rocket hit near the Piwdennoukrainsk nuclear plant in the south of the country. The news ticker on Monday, September 19th.


During the Ukraine war, Kyiv reports a rocket hit near the Piwdennoukrainsk nuclear plant in the south of the country.

The news ticker on Monday, September 19th.

  • Nuclear power plant Pivdennoukrainsk:

    Ukraine reports rocket hit

  • British defense chief:

    conflict between Russia and Ukraine will last for a long time.

  • Editor

    's note: You can read all the news about the Ukraine conflict in this news ticker.

    Some of the information comes from warring factions in the Ukraine war and cannot be checked directly and independently.

+++ 12.30 p.m .:

Russia has rejected the allegations about the mass graves near the city of Izyum in eastern Ukraine as “lies”.

"These are lies.

We will, of course, defend the truth in this story," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

According to Ukrainian authorities, more than 440 graves and one mass grave were discovered after Ukrainian units recaptured the Izyum area, which had long been occupied by Russian troops.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russia has repeatedly denied having committed atrocities there.

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Photo from September 17th: A mass grave with alleged war victims on the outskirts of Izyum.

© Juan Barreto/AFP

+++ 11.45 a.m .:

According to the AP news agency, the state-run Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator Enerhoatom has described the Russian rocket attack on the Piwdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant (see update from 10.30 a.m.) as an act of “nuclear terrorism”.

The Ukraine War in Pictures - Destruction, Resistance and Hope

The Ukraine War in Pictures - Destruction, Resistance and Hope

News about the Ukraine war: Kyiv reports a rocket hit at the Piwdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant

+++ 10.30

a.m .: According to Volodymyr Zelenskyj, a Russian rocket hit near the Piwdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.

He accused Russia of endangering the entire world.

"We have to stop it before it's too late," he wrote on social media.

The nuclear power plant is located almost three hundred kilometers south of the capital Kyiv.

There are three reactors in operation with a net output of 2850 megawatts.

The state-owned Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator Enerhoatom also reported a rocket attack on the industrial site at the nuclear power plant.

Three high-voltage lines and a system at the nearby hydroelectric power station were damaged.

In the nuclear power plant building itself, more than 100 windows were destroyed by the blast.

The group published photos of a crater four meters in diameter and two meters deep.

+++ 8.25 a.m

.: Russia sends 400 prisoners to fight in Ukraine.

This is reported by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Accordingly, Russia continues to have difficulties recruiting workers for the war and therefore resorts to Russian convicts.

According to reports, 400 prisoners from Tambov were sent to fight in Ukraine.

The General Staff also reported that Ukrainian forces repulsed three Russian attacks and carried out airstrikes on Russian positions.

News about the Ukraine war: Kyiv plans to recapture Mariupol and Cherson

Update from Monday, September 19, 6:30

a.m.: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has announced new attacks on the area in Ukraine occupied by Russian troops.

"Perhaps it seems to some of you that after a series of victories there has been silence, but it is not silence," Zelenskyy said in his daily video address on Sunday.

Rather, it is the preparation for the next offensive, the aim of which is the recapture of Mariupol, Melitopol and Cherson.

According to Zelenskyy, Ukraine will not only focus on the areas it controlled before the Russian attack in February.

The 44-year-old announced that the territories of the Moscow-backed separatists in the east of the country and cities in Crimea, which had been annexed by Russia since 2014, would also be recaptured.

"Because all of Ukraine must be free."

News about the Ukraine war: Baltic states want to close borders for Russian tourists

+++ 10:35 p.m .:

According to reports from the

Kyiv Independent

, Poland and the Baltic States want to close the borders for Russian tourists from September 19th.

Kristi Raik, director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, tweeted on Sunday evening that Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania want to temporarily restrict entry of Russian citizens with EU visas due to security threats.

According to Raik, only people with certain requirements, such as family members or holders of EU residence permits, will be able to enter the countries.

News about the Ukraine war: People die in Russian attack in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

+++ 8.30 p.m .:

Georgia condemns Russia’s war crimes in Izium and demands justice.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili tweeted that she strongly condemned Russia's atrocities in Izium.

With her contribution she reacted to the mass burial site with around 450 graves in the liberated city in the Kharkiv Oblast.

"These war crimes must be answered by the judiciary," wrote Zurabishvili.

+++ 6.20 p.m .:

As Governor Valentyn Reznichenko announced on Telegram, there had been a Russian attack on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in which two people were killed and three injured.

Russian forces are said to have fired Grad multiple rocket launchers at the municipalities of Pokrovsk, Nikopol and Chervonohryhorivka, causing damage to residential areas, the

Kyiv Independent reports.

News on the Ukraine war: Conflict with Russia will continue for a long time

+++ 3.55 p.m .:

"Putin fails in all military objectives" - said Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, Chief of the Defense Staff of Great Britain, to the

BBC

.

“He wanted to subjugate Ukraine.

That will not happen,” the British defense chief continued.

At the same time, he expressed the assumption that, despite Ukrainian successes, the conflict will continue for a long time.

+++ 2:22 p.m .:

An explosion is said to have occurred in occupied Svatove.

Luhansk Oblast Governor Serhiy Haidai said the blast in the Russian-held city north of Sievierodonetsk happened at a hotel in an old bus station where Russian troops were stationed.

News about the Ukraine war: Exhumation of the 450 dead in liberated Izyum continues

+++ 1:20 p.m .:

The exhumation of the 450 dead in the liberated Isjium will continue for two more weeks.

Izyum Mayor Valerii Marchenko said on September 18 that exhumation work will continue for almost two weeks "because there are many burials in the recently liberated city of Kharkiv region."

+++ 11.30 a.m .:

Russian tanks are said to have attacked a civilian car in the Kharkiv region and killed two women.

According to Kharkiv region governor Oleh Syniehubov, on September 17, two women were killed when a Russian tank shelled a civilian vehicle in the village of Strilecha on the border with Russia.

A Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region is said to have killed four doctors.

Syniehubov said doctors were trying to evacuate patients from a psychiatric hospital in the village of Strilecha when Russian forces "massively shelled" the area.

Two patients were injured, he said.

News about the Ukraine war: Strategically "senseless" Russian offensive - but no defense

+++ 8.15 a.m .:

Russia continues to rely on strategically pointless offensives and does not manage to stop the Ukrainian advance.

This is how the Institute for The Study of War puts it.

The institute reports that Russian troops continue to carry out unsuccessful attacks in the Donetsk region.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is continuing its counter-offensive without any significant defensive maneuvers by Russia, leaving most of the Russian-held parts of Kharkiv and Luhansk oblasts vulnerable, ISW reports.


According to the experts, Ukrainian advances around the Oskil River and north of the Siverskyi Donets River could allow for a possible encirclement of Russian forces in Luhansk.

Ukraine War News: Torture Chambers Discovered in Liberated Kharkiv - Torture "Common Practice"

Update from Sunday, September 18, 6:15 a.m .:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has accused Russia of cruel torture in the liberated Kharkov region.

In the meantime, more than ten torture chambers have been discovered in various cities in the liberated area, Zelenskyj said in a video message.

"Torture was a widespread practice in the occupied territory," the President said.

He described the occupiers who fled a week ago as "racists" and said that the "Nazis" had behaved in the same way.

"Racism" combines the words Russia and fascism.

+++ 10.40 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian media reports, there were several explosions in Cherson.

Local residents report that four explosions were heard on Saturday evening (September 17).

They also saw black smoke rising from the premises of an engineering factory that is said to be a Russian military base.

News about the Ukraine war: "Clear evidence of torture" in Izyum - Russians are said to have shot at the buried

First report from Saturday, September 17, 6.45 a.m .:

After hundreds of bodies were found in the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum, which had been liberated from the Russian occupation, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kiev called for the international community to react to Moscow’s crimes.

Currently, more than 440 graves have been found near Izyum in the Kharkiv Liberated Region.

"It is too early to say anything about the number of people buried there, the investigation is ongoing," said Zelenskyy in a video message distributed in Kyiv on Friday evening.

(lm/tu/hg/na/nak with dpa/AFP)

Rubric list image: © Juan Barreto/AFP

Source: merkur

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