2023-08-08 10:27:43
Poland on high alert. After noting training between mercenaries from the Russian Wagner company and the Belarusian army, an ally of Moscow, the Polish Ministry of Defense is gradually increasing its military contingent on the border with Belarus. And will soon deploy 1,000 additional soldiers in the east of the national territory, which will be added to the 2,000 soldiers already present, for “patrol” operations, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. Follow our live.
Russian strikes leave 7 dead and more than 80 injured in eastern Ukraine. At least seven people were killed on Monday when two Russian missiles fired at a building in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. “Sixty-seven were injured”, said Tuesday on Telegram Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the military administration of Donetsk. According to Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko, 31 police officers and seven rescue workers are among the dozens injured. Relief operations, interrupted during the night because of the risk of new bombardments, resumed Tuesday at dawn.
Nuclear power plants will operate this winter, says the Ukrainian operator. “All the power we have will be supplied to the electrical system”, following the maintenance of some reactors before winter, Energoatom President Petro Kotin told reporters on Monday. He spoke at the Yuzhnoukrainsk power plant in southern Ukraine, on the occasion of the recommissioning of one of its three reactors. Four others are under repair, but Energoatom assures that the country will enter winter “with all nine reactors at full capacity”.
kyiv says it foiled a plan to attack Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukraine’s security services (SBU) say on Monday they arrested a woman accused of helping Russia plan an attack on President Volodymyr Zelensky. In a statement, the SBU said it had arrested a “Russian secret service informant who was gathering intelligence on the President’s planned visit to the Mykolaiv region”close to the front line, in view of a “massive air attack”.
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