Ukraine on Tuesday launched a military counteroffensive against Russian forces in the south, urging UN inspectors to “do everything possible” to avert a catastrophe at the Russian-occupied Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. Moscow.
Powerful explosions were recorded early on Tuesday morning in the Kherson region, a city taken by the Russians shortly after their invasion began in late February, and “almost the entire” area was the scene of violent clashes, Presidency in Kyiv.
President in Kyiv UkraineVolodymyr Zelenskyy received inspectors International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) preparing a mission to the center Zaporozhyewhich the Russians and Ukrainians have been accusing each other of bombing for weeks.
Before inspectors led by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, Zelensky called on the international community to achieve “immediate demilitarization” of Europe’s largest plant occupied by troops from Russia since March.
According to Zelensky, this should include “the withdrawal of all Russian military with all their explosives and all weapons” and the full restoration of Ukrainian control over the plant.
Zelensky received IAEA inspectors who will go to the nuclear power plant occupied by Russia | Font: AFP
“Powerful artillery strikes”
In Berezneuvat, a town 70 kilometers north of Kherson, the AFP agency recorded a constant stream of armored vehicles. Ukraineamid artillery fire nearby.
“We hit them hard,” boasts Viktor, an infantryman in his 60s.
Its commander Alexander, a Soviet veteran of the war in Afghanistan (1979-1989), predicts that the recapture of Kherson will be “long and difficult.”
The counteroffensive, which began on Monday, has destroyed “a number of Russian ammunition depots” and “all the major bridges” where people can cross the Dnieper in cars, the Ukrainian president said.
In this manner, Ukraine hopes to cut the supply channels of the Crimean peninsula, annexed Russia in 2014.
According to the British Ministry of Defense, “most units [rusas] there are probably not enough people around Kherson and they depend on a fragile supply of ferries and floating bridges.
Russia He said he hoped the audit would be carried out effectively.
Energoatom, the operator of Ukrainian nuclear power plants, said Russian soldiers are “putting pressure on plant personnel not to disclose evidence of the occupiers’ crimes.”
Explosions in Kharkov
Russia On Monday, he assured that he repelled several Ukrainian “offensive attempts” in the Kherson region and in Nikolaev, to the west.
The Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday assured that “due to the failure of the Ukrainian offensive (…) the enemy has suffered numerous losses,” which are estimated at 1,200 people in one day.
Southern Command of the Ground Forces Ukraine He claimed that on Monday the Russians fired 16 S-300 anti-aircraft missiles into Nikolayev, causing “significant” damage and leaving two civilians dead and 24 wounded.
None of this information can be confirmed by an independent source.
In any case, Russian bombardments did not stop along the front line, stretching from the northeast to the south of Ukraine.
At least five people were killed in the center of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city (in the northeast), according to local authorities.
Ministers of Defense European Union (EU) agreed on Tuesday in Prague to begin preparatory work on training Ukrainian military personnel by the countries of the bloc.
(According to AFP)
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