“The enemy tried to hit the nuclear power plant during the night”the Russian president said during a meeting broadcast on Russian television with members of his government and the governors of Ukraine’s border regions. “The IAEA has been informed”he added, without directly presenting evidence for these claims. Follow our live coverage.
Volodymyr Zelensky visited a border area of the Russian Kursk region. “There has been a decrease in gunfire and a decrease in the number of civilian casualties.”. Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the consequences of the offensive in the Russian Kursk region for the Ukrainian border regions, after a visit near Sumy (Ukraine), Thursday, August 22. He spoke on X after a meeting with the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Syrsky, and the head of the regional military administration, about the operation conducted since August 6 on the other side of the border.
Russia claims capture of new village. “Thanks to the successful actions of the units of the Central Troop Group, the town of Mejové (…) was liberated”the Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily report. The town is located near the Pokrovsk logistics hub in eastern Ukraine, which the Russian military continues to approach.
IAEA chief to visit Kursk. The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, will make the trip. “next week”to inspect the nuclear power plant installed in this region, the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom announced on Thursday. Fighting near this site is worrying, despite its shutdown.
One dead and 18 injured in Kherson. Local authorities reported one person killed in a Russian strike and 18 injured in the southern Ukrainian city. On Thursday morning, Russia said it had foiled several Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on the west of the country, 24 hours after a previous salvo that targeted the Moscow region in particular.