2023-06-15 21:48:31
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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimated Thursday, June 15, following a visit to the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, that the situation there was “grave” but in the process of stabilization, following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam. “We can observe on the one hand that the situation is serious, the consequences are there and they are real”Rafael Grossi told reporters. “At the same time, measures are being taken to stabilize the situation”, he added. His visit, the first since the destruction of the dam, had to be postponed twice for security reasons.
Volodymyr Zelensky calls for Swiss solidarity on armaments. The Ukrainian president on Thursday called on Switzerland to allow kyiv’s allies to transfer weapons made in the Alpine country to Ukraine. “I know that there is a discussion in Switzerland regarding the re-export of war material. It would be vital to protect and defend Ukraine”, he launched, in a video address to the Swiss Parliament. JUntil now, the neutral country has refused to allow countries that hold Swiss-made weapons to re-export them to Ukraine.
Training of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft has “begun”. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Thursday that the training of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft has already “begin”. He did not provide any details on the training countries, during his statement to the press, on the sidelines of the summit of defense ministers in Brussels (Belgium). The head of the Atlantic Alliance, however, recalled that no decision had yet been taken on the delivery of these devices to the Ukrainian army. Several EU countries have nevertheless expressed their readiness to supply these planes.
The Ukrainian army “advance” on the front despite “powerful resistance” Russian troops. Ukrainian forces advanced from “more than three kilometers” over the past ten days in the Bakhmout area in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Maliar told a press conference on Thursday. In the South, she reported “a gradual but certain progress” of the Ukrainian army, even though “the enemy is putting up strong resistance”.
Moscow claims that local “elections” are maintained in the occupied territories on September 10. The Russian electoral commission announced Thursday the holding of local “elections” on September 10 in the territories that Russia occupies in Ukraine and of which it has claimed the annexation in September 2022. These polls aim, according to the body, to elect regional assemblies and municipal councils, even as fighting rages in these regions, Luhansk and Donetsk in the east, Zaporizhia and Kherson in the south.
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