“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 region of Kursk 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 carried out since August 6 on the other side of the border. The Russian regional authorities have, in parallel, announced the installation of air raid shelters in several cities in the region. Follow our live.
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.
Three journalists targeted by Russian justice. Moscow has opened an investigation into a journalist from the American television channel CNN, British Nick Paton Walsh, and two Ukrainian reporters, Diana Boutsko and Olesya Borovik. These three journalists have reported from the Kursk region, which is under attack by the Ukrainian army, after crossing “illegally“ the border from Ukraine, Russian services accuse.