2023-07-06 17:39:52
“The tensions are gradually decreasing” around the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia (Ukraine) occupied by Russian forces, said Thursday July 6 the spokeswoman for the Ukrainian army for the southern front, Natalia Goumenyuk. The decline in tensions is the result “of mighty work” Ukrainian army and diplomats, as well as their “foreign partners who put pressure” on Russia, she continued. Ukraine on Tuesday accused Moscow of preparing a “provocation” on the site of the plant, while Russia assured that kyiv planned to commit a “subversive act”. Follow our live.
Yevgeny Prigojine is still in Russia, according to the Belarusian presidency. According to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of the paramilitary group Wagner is still in Russia, despite the agreement providing for his departure to Belarus following his attempted armed rebellion at the end of June. “As for Prigozhin, he is in Saint Petersburg. Where is he this morning? Maybe gone to Moscow, or elsewhere, but he is not on Belarusian territory”, said Alexander Lukashenko at a press conference. According to him, Wagner’s fighters are also “in their camps” and not in Belarus, “For now”.
At least five dead in a strike in Lviv. A missile strike once morest a residential building killed at least five people and injured 37 others on Thursday in Lviv, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said. Emergency services are mobilized and “there might be more people under the rubble”, said the mayor of this city in western Ukraine, Andriï Sadovyi, in a Telegram message. Ukraine’s president promised a response “tangible” following this bombardment.
Suspected suicide bombing in a kyiv court. Two police officers were injured on Wednesday following a man apparently blew himself up in a Kiev district court, Ukrainian authorities said. The suspect was identified in the evening as Igor Gumenyuk. He had been taken into custody in 2015 following the deaths of four National Guardsmen.
The IAEA is calling for better access to the Zaporijjia plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency demanded Wednesday access to the entire Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia (south), occupied by Russia, while Kiev and Moscow accuse each other of preparing a provocation on the site.
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