New reductions. The French energy company Engie announced on Tuesday August 30 that the Russian giant Gazprom had informed it of additional and immediate reductions in its gas deliveries to it. “due to a disagreement between the parties on the application of contracts”.
Deliveries of Russian gas to Engie had already dropped considerably since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, recently dropping to just 1.5 TWh per month, Engie said in a press release. The group recalls that it has already put in place measures to be able to supply its customers even in the event of an interruption in Gazprom flows. Follow our live.
“Ukraine is taking back what is hers,” says Zelensky. Ukrainian forces launched an offensive in the south of the country on Monday. “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.
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.