Cover image: Ilze Brands Kehris, Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights, speaks before the UN Security Council, September 7, 2022. Michael M. Santiago / AFP
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- There are “credible accusations” single children forcibly transferred from Ukraine to Russia, said the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Human Rights on Wednesday, September 7, expressing concern about their possible adoption by Russian families. The Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzia rejected these accusations outright “unfounded” which he called ” legend “.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday (September 7th) that kyiv forces had recaptured several localities in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine from Russian troops, without giving details. “This week we have good news from the Kharkiv region”said Mr. Zelensky in his evening video speech disseminated on social networks. Refusing to name them, he referred to “localities where the Ukrainian flag has returned”.
- Ukraine admits for the first time having targeted Russian bases in Crimea. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Valeri Zaluzhny, for the first time admitted on Wednesday that he carried out missile strikes in August on Russian bases in annexed Crimea, threatening to continue such operations.
- The European Commission proposes to cap the price of Russian gas. “We need to cut Russia’s revenue, which Putin is using to finance this atrocious war against Ukraine “Said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Wednesday. Russia will no longer deliver oil or gas to countries that would cap the price of hydrocarbons sold by Moscow, Vladimir Putin warned in the morning.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declared itself, in a report published Tuesday after its on-site inspection, in favor of the establishment of a “protection area” to prevent a nuclear accident at the Central Ukrainian Zaporizhiaoccupied for six months by the Russians, and where it judges the situation “untenable” due to the bombings.
- Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, welcomed the fact that the report mentions the presence of Russian military equipment inside the plant. For its part, Russian Ambassador to the UN regretted, during a meeting of the Security Council, that the IAEA report does not point to the responsibility of Ukraine, which Moscow accuses of bombing the plant.
- In the region of Dnipro (center), in Kryvy Rih, the birthplace of President Zelensky, a “Major Fire” occurred on Monday in an oil depot following a Russian attack, informed its governor Valentyn Reznitchenko.
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