Moscow has announced a “anti-terrorist operation” in three border regions with Ukraine on Friday evening, August 9, after the largest incursion of Ukrainian forces into Russian territory since the beginning of the conflict. The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee declared the launch of“anti-terrorist operations in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions (…) in order to ensure the safety of citizens and eliminate the threat of terrorist acts committed by enemy sabotage groups”This regime provides in particular for “traffic restrictions for vehicles and pedestrians on streets, roads” and restrictions on the use of means of communication. Follow our live feed.
A Ukrainian army raid into Russia. kyiv’s troops reached Sudja on Friday, a Russian city of 5,500 people about ten kilometres from the border and home to a transit hub for gas still supplying European countries, including Hungary and Slovakia, via Ukraine.
IAEA calls for “maximum restraint” around Kursk nuclear power plant. “At this stage, I would like to call on all parties to exercise maximum restraint in order to avoid a nuclear accident that could have serious radiological consequences.“We are in a very difficult situation,” International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi said Friday, as fighting raged near Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant.
At least fourteen dead after Russian strike. The industrial city of Kostiantynivka, located in eastern Ukraine, was struck by a daytime attack on a supermarket on Friday, which left at least 14 dead and 43 injured, according to the prosecutor’s office.