06/22/2023
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 23:35 Selenskyj speaks of progress at the front +++
Two weeks after the start of the Ukrainian offensive, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy praised progress on the front. “We’re moving forward in the South,” he says in his daily video address. He concedes heavy fighting, but he says the enemy is being crushed everywhere – including in the east, where Ukrainian troops are on the defensive.
+++ 22:14 Zaporizhia nuclear plant wants to pump water from the damaged reservoir again +++
The Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant wants to pump water from the damaged reservoir of the destroyed Kakhovka dam again to cool the reactors. This is reported by the International Energy Agency IAEA. For the past two weeks, the nuclear power plant had received its cooling water from the reserves of a nearby thermal power plant. Last week, the UN agency announced that it was unclear whether the nuclear power plant would be able to pump water out of the damaged reservoir again.
+++ 21:39 Ukrainian secret service confirms Russian attack on headquarters +++
The Ukrainian military intelligence agency HUR has confirmed reports of a Russian missile strike against its headquarters. The attacks took place at the end of May, but “neither achieved the desired goal nor the announced goal,” said the authority’s spokesman on Ukrainian television. Russian President Vladimir Putin, among others, reported on the rocket attack. The first information about an attack on the HUR headquarters appeared on May 29th. The spokesman declined to comment on the aftermath of the attack. He said he would only do that after the war.
+++ 21:05 Von der Leyen: Russian assets should benefit Ukraine +++
The EU wants to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine. The EU Commission will present a plan for this before the summer break, said EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen at a reconstruction conference for Ukraine in London. She added: “The perpetrator must be held accountable”. Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made a similar statement on the sidelines of the conference. For the reconstruction of Ukraine it is essential that Moscow is held accountable in the medium term, the minister told journalists.
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