Russian double strike in two areas with nuclear power plants. The Kiev authorities condemn the raids. The nuclear power plant was only connected to the power grid again on September 16. The Russian army started in the early hours of the morning today eight missiles over Zaporizhia, a city in south-eastern Ukraine where the site is located. A message coming from the head of the regional military administration Oleksandr Staruch on social media: “According to preliminary information, one of the rockets hit the regional center of Zaporizhia near the Dnipro River. There is no information yet on casualties or injuries,” he wrote. Another area with a nuclear power plant is also in Moscow’s sights: “Shortly after midnight, the Russian army launched a rocket attack on the industrial area of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Moscow Pivdennoukrainsk, in the southern Mykolayiv region. The massive explosion happened just 300 meters from the reactors,” reported Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom, reported by Espreso TV. “The blast wave damaged the buildings of the plant. Three high-voltage lines were also disconnected – Energoatom said – currently all three power units of the facility are functioning normally. There are no casualties among employees.” “In the Mykolaiv region a rocket landed 300 meters from the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant in the night. A momentary power failure has occurred. The windows of the buildings on the territory of the nuclear power plant were damaged. The invaders wanted to fire again, but they forgot what a nuclear power plant is. Russia endangers the whole world. We have to stop it before it’s too late,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. In the meantime, further reports of attacks against the population are arriving from the liberated cities: at the police headquarters Izyumwhich the Russian army had turned into their headquarters, the Ukrainian forces found one torture roomhe reported on Facebook Sergey BolvinovHead of the investigative department of the regional police.
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According to the latest report of the General Staff, in the last 24 hours, the aviation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched 21 airstrikes on Russian positions, hitting 16 Federation troop concentration areas and 5 positions of air defense systems. “The enemy continues to focus their efforts on attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk region, organize defense and keep control over conquered territories, as well as interrupting the active operations of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in some directions, ”the report said. In particular, Russian forces are firing on Ukrainian positions along the line of contact, taking action to redeploy their units in separate directions, deploying reserves, and continuing to conduct aerial reconnaissance.
The Russians – declares the General Staff – They do not stop hitting civilian homes and infrastructure, violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, the laws and customs of war. In the last day, the Russian army launched 3 rocket attacks and 22 airstrikes, over 90 MLRs attacks on structures on the territory of Ukraine. According to the General Staff, the infrastructure of more than 30 settlements is affected, including Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Soledar, Bilohirya, Novopil, Pershotravneve, Temyrivka, Sukhyi Stavok, Myroliubivka, Petrivka, Bereznehuvate, Bilohorivka, Spirne, Stehspova and Olivka. “The threat of air and missile attacks remains throughout Ukrainian territory,” the report concludes. Russian raids were reported in the Dnipropetrovsk region: in Nikopol, rockets damaged water structures, power lines and residential buildings, the head of the regional military administration told Telegram. Valentin Reznichenko and reported by UNIAN. “The Nikopol district is again in the enemy’s sights. The Russians hit the municipalities of Nikopol and Marganets three times with heavy artillery. They fired more than 40 bullets. At the moment there would be no injuries,” Reznichenko said. “Perhaps it now seems to some of you that after a string of wins we are taking a break, but that is not the case. We are preparing for the next series of offensives, because Ukraine must be free,” Zelenskyy said during his evening speech on Telegram, reminding that “Izyum, Balakleya, Kupyansk and the Kharkiv region as a whole are the communities that we are freed”. – The Kremlin has denied Ukrainian complaints about atrocities committed by Russian forces in north-eastern Ukraine as “lies” after it was revealed the bodies of hundreds of people were found in Izyum. “This is the same scenario as Bucha, it is a lie and of course we will defend the truth,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian authorities. That Bucha massacre it was then extensively documented by journalistic inquiries such as that of the New York Times.
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Meanwhile, Russia has sent 400 inmates from Tambov prison to Ukraine to reinforce units fighting in Ukraine, according to the Kiev general staff on Facebook, quoted by Ukrainian media. According to the Ukrainian army, “this decision was made because of the Lack of military personnel among Federation troops“. “Ukraine is beating Russia, but it’s not winning yet,” said US President Joe Biden in an interview with 60 Minutes, defining what Vladimir Putin has done in Ukraine, “it’s shameful with the attacks on hospitals and Schools: it’s outrageous”.
Meanwhile, on the diplomatic front, Kyiv sends a message to the Vatican: “We negotiate that Francis comes to Kyiv and I believe that sooner or later it will happen. But I think that a visit to Moscow is not the right thing either. There are the attackers. And it’s not good for a holy man to go to the land of murderers,” said Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with Il Corriere della Sera