06/03/2023
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 00:30 Stoltenberg talks to Erdogan +++
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is traveling to Ankara at the weekend for the inauguration ceremony of the re-elected Turkish President Erdogan. The military alliance announced that he would also meet the Turkish head of state there for bilateral talks. It is expected that the focus will be on Sweden’s admission to NATO, which has been blocked by Turkey. In view of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Sweden had applied for NATO membership together with Finland. While Finland was accepted into the alliance at the beginning of April, Sweden still lacks approval from Turkey and also from Hungary.
+++ 22:28 Ukrainian army: more than a dozen attacks repelled +++
Russian forces are said to have carried out 62 airstrikes and 15 rocket attacks in Ukraine during the day. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces also accuses Russia of firing at civilian settlements with multiple rocket launcher systems. The Ukrainian military claims it repelled all 15 attacks by the occupying forces in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. The information cannot be verified.
+++ 22:07 Selenskyj calls bunker problems intolerable +++
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has again complained about problems with the shelters in Kiev in view of the ongoing Russian rocket and drone attacks at night. Citizens complained about the shortage, about locked bunkers and sealed access to them, criticizes Selenskyj. In some parts of the city, there were no emergency shelters at all. He instructed the government to take action to improve the situation. After everything that happened in Kiev on Thursday, this state of affairs is intolerable. People in the capital had stood in front of a locked bunker during the night when there was an air raid alarm. Three people died after new Russian attacks, including a nine-year-old child.
+++ 21:50 Zaporizhia nuclear plant for three months without an emergency power line +++
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Russian-occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plant at Zaporizhia has been without an external emergency power supply for three months. This makes the nuclear power plant extremely vulnerable in the event that the only functioning main power line fails again. In such cases, cooling is provided by the existing diesel generators. In the most recent such incident, it was said that there would be enough fuel for ten days. The IAEA is concerned that failure of the cooling systems could result in overheating of the fuel rods and nuclear waste, leading to a nuclear accident.
The events of the previous day can be found here.