The day is dawning in Europe and a 171st day of armed conflict begins in Ukraine following the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. Tensions are mounting on the side of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, where new bombings took place this week Fear of catastrophe threatens. The UN has called for the establishment of a demilitarized zone, which the Russians have rejected.
The Ukrainian army, for its part, bombed several ammunition depots belonging to the Russian armed forces. We take stock of the events that have shaped the last few hours.
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UN urges demilitarization of Zoporizhia power plant area
While the bombings around the Zoprijia nuclear power plant have continued in recent days, the UN is calling for the creation of a demilitarized zone around the site. Russia declined an appeal, believing that withdrawing its troops would complicate the installation ” vulnerable […] provocations and terrorist attacks”, explained Vassili Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Council, as transmitted by The Guardian.
In the face of fears of a nuclear catastrophe, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres actually called for the withdrawal of personnel and military equipment from the area of the plant. “The facilities may not be used as part of a military operation,” he said in a press release published this Thursday, August 11.
Ukrainian agency Energoatom said the factory site was hit five times on Thursday, including near locations where radioactive material is stored. Russians and Ukrainians still accuse each other of having bombed the factory premises.
This Friday, August 12, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, supported Fontelles “ the call for demilitarization” the area, ask “the complete withdrawal of Russian forces”, to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to go there.
Ukrainian attacks on Russian ammunition depots
According to the latest report by the American Institute for War Studies (ISW), Ukrainian forces conducted multiple bombing raids on Russian-held locations.
Target locations included Russian ammunition depots and a logistics center in the Kherson region. Ukrainian officials have confirmed multiple attacks on these targets.
At the same time, specialists in war studies report that still in the Kherson region “Ukrainian forces destroyed the last working bridge used by Russian forces to transport military equipment near the hydroelectric power station” in Kakhovka.
In addition, the institute also reports that Ukraine is being targeted “the leaders of the Russian occupation”, prepare the referendums on the annexation in the occupied territories in order to disrupt the preparation of the referendums and the annexation of the occupied territories to Russia.
Continuous Russian bombing raids
This Friday, in its report, the ISW also gives the word of the Ukrainian General Staff, which confirms that Russian airstrikes have been reported again in cities located northeast of Kharkiv, in particular in Verkhnyi Saltiv, Ukrainka and Bayrak … New strikes were also reported in the night of Friday 12 August to Saturday 13 August 2022.
The Kherson, Dnipro and Mykolaiv regions have also been the target of strikes since Thursday.
In Melitopol, south of Zaporizhia, the city’s mayor Ivan Federov informed him that the Russian armed forces would use the site of the city hospital as a military base, he said on Friday, August 12, 2022. Information released by the media Kyiv Independent.
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