Cover image: A man stands in a destroyed market after a Russian strike in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, September 3, 2022. AMMAR AWAD / REUTERS
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- Zaporizhia nuclear power plantoccupied by Russian forces, has “lost connection again” to the electrical networkannounced on Saturday in a press release the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whose representatives have been on site since Thursday to assess the situation and the risks.
- Ukrainian operator Energoatom saidSaturday night, having shut down reactor number 5 of the plant, “due to insufficient capacity for two reactors”. The sixth reactor “generates electricity for cooling [du combustible nucléaire] and other essential safety functions”, said the IAEA.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Saturday morning that his army had repelled an assault by Ukrainian forces on Friday evening who were trying to take over the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia.
- Saturday, during a telephone interview, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said [à Vladimir Poutine] that Turkey can play a facilitating role at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plantas it did for the cereals agreement” in July, the Turkish presidency said in a statement.
- Strikes and fighting continue on Ukrainian territory. In the Donbass (is) coveted by Moscow, the main front line, “The Russian army attacks in the directions of Bakhmout and Avdiivka”the Ukrainian army said in a statement. In the center, Russian strikes killed a 9-year-old boy and seriously injured ten people in Zelenodolsk, in the Dnipropetrovsk region (center), according to the Ukrainian authorities.
- Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmyhal visits Germany on Sunday in the hope of even stronger support against Russia and to turn the page after recent tensions between kyiv and Berlin.
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