Ukraine and Russia are ready to work with the IAEA to ensure the security of Ukrainian nuclear facilities

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• On the fifteenth day of the invasion, the Russian army was operating on several fronts: a small offensive to try to get closer to the capital Kiev, and intense bombing of other strategic cities, including Nikolaev, the last gateway before the port of Odessa. At least 516 civilians have been killed on the Ukrainian side since February 26, according to the UN.
• According to the representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the situation is especially critical in Mariupol, surrounded and deprived of electricity, water, gas and soon food.
• Ukraine and Russia are “ready” to discuss security guarantees for Ukrainian nuclear facilities, which are increasingly endangered by the war every day, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday. The announcement comes as Kyiv has “lost all contact” with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to information obtained by the UN nuclear police.
• Emmanuel Macron condemned “with the greatest firmness” the shelling by Russian troops of a maternity hospital and a children’s hospital in Mariupol, considering it “unworthy of military action.” The Russian military called it a “staging” by Ukrainian “nationalists”. According to the UN, this is the third maternity hospital destroyed in the country since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
• The damage from the war in Ukraine is estimated at 100 billion dollars (90 billion euros), according to preliminary estimates, Oleg Ustenko, economic adviser to the President of Ukraine, said on Thursday. However, he felt that the Ukrainian financial system was doing quite well “given the current circumstances”, citing a “more or less stable exchange rate”.
• Russia has banned the export of certain goods and equipment from the country to face tough economic sanctions imposed on it by the West over the conflict in Ukraine. According to the government, this ban applies to certain technologies related to telecommunications, medicine, agricultural machinery and electrical equipment.
• Half of the population of the Kiev agglomeration has fled since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitaliy Klitschko, said on Thursday, adding that “today there are just under two million inhabitants. there”.

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