In Lviv, Zelensky will meet Turkish President Erdogan and UN Secretary General Guterres. Russia reports damage to the backup system at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and accuses Ukraine of planning a “provocation” in light of Guterres’ visit.
diplomacy
- President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan met for joint talks in Ukraine. The two met at the Potocki Palace in Lviv, state news channel Anadolu reported on Thursday.
- Zelensky said UN Secretary-General António Guterres for conversations at the meeting. “Special attention was paid to Russia’s nuclear blackmail Zaporizhia nuclear power plantThe United Nations must guarantee the security of this strategic object with the demilitarization and withdrawal of Russian armed forces, it said in a statement from the presidential office published on Thursday.
- Tourist visa stop for Russians approaching? The Lithuanian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Gabrielius Landsbergis, is in favor of European-wide regulation. EPP chief Manfred Weber makes a similar statement: “We have to stop tourism from Russia,” he said in an interview with “Press”. As of today, Russian citizens can no longer enter the Baltic country from the EU and NATO with a Schengen visa issued by Estonia.
Location at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
- Russia warns that Radioactive material can reach Germany, Poland and Slovakiaif an accident occurs. The Defense Ministry announced on Thursday that the nuclear power plant’s backup systems had been damaged by the bombing. If the Ukrainian armed forces continue to bomb the plant, the nuclear plant could be closed.
- On Thursday, Russia denied the deployment of heavy weapons near the Zaporizhia nuclear plant and stressed that “only guards” were there. However, the Defense Ministry in Moscow accused Kyiv of preparing a “provocation” at the nuclear plant during Guterres’ visit to Ukraine.in order to accuse Moscow of “creating a man-made catastrophe”.
- The Defense Department also said to close the nuclear plant, it must remain shell. Ukrainian representatives accused Russia of wanting to connect the nuclear plant to the Russian grid. Shutting down a nuclear power plant is a complicated process, because the nuclear chain reaction must be stopped without causing the core to collapse.
Combat / Military
- There have been no major changes in the course of the front in eastern and southern Ukraine in recent days. According to Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych, the current situation is dominant a strategic impasse.
- There are said to be violent attacks in the country’s second largest city, Kharkiv. Seven people were killed and 16 injured in Ukraine’s second-largest city late on Wednesday, according to the Ukrainian emergency service.
- The Russian army records small gains in territory in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine: The troops managed to advance near Opytne in the north of the region and near Nowomychajliwka in the southwest. Also in Donetsk, a Russian influencer was reportedly killed by a mine.
- at the south however, Ukrainian soldiers managed to capture a to stop Russian troops from advancing northeast of Kherson, said a Ukrainian military expert. Zelensky’s adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a video message that there is currently a strategic impasse.
- According to British intelligence services, Russia is engaged in a war of aggression against Ukraine. Problems protecting your main battle tanks. The serious damage to many Russian vehicles in Ukraine is likely related to the fact that the tanks are not sufficiently protected with so-called reactive armor, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense in London on Thursday.
(clepa/light/Ag.)