Counter attack. Ukrainian forces launched an offensive in the south of the country on Monday, August 29. She aims to retake Kherson, a city that had fallen into Russian hands at the start of the war, on February 24. “We ask residents of Kherson to follow the safety instructions”wrote on Telegram the head of the regional administration, Yaroslav Yanuchevych.
“Ukraine is taking back what is its own and will take back everything in the end: the regions of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Crimea, the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov”, hammered in his daily message Monday evening the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Follow our live.
An offensive that “failed”, according to Moscow. Russia claimed to have repelled “offensive attempts” Ukrainians in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. They have “failed miserably”assured the Russian Ministry of Defense, which adds that the Ukrainians have “suffered heavy losses”.
Continued Russian bombings. Ukrainian local authorities have also observed strikes in the regions of Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Dnipro, where they caused one death. The governor of the Zaporizhia region also announced at dawn on Tuesday that Russia had launched an attack with missiles against the city.
An IAEA mission expected this week in Zaporijjia. IAEA team to visit “later this week” the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, demanded to be able to go there, warning of the “real risk of nuclear catastrophe” after a series of bombings for which the two belligerents impute mutual responsibility.