In Ukraine, attention remains high around the Zaporizhzhia plant. The Director General of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said that the situation at the plant he visited today “is not improving”, on the contrary, hostilities are “intensifying”. For this reason, the agency is working to find “realistic measures” to “avoid disasters”. Meanwhile, Kiev announces that it will be ready to counterattack on the field “just before summer”, also thanks to the arrival of Leopard tanks from the west. While awaiting the requested weapons, attention remains on Bakhmut where the battle rages.
For the director general, the nuclear power plant is “unprotectable”. “Military activity is increasing across the region. Therefore, the plant cannot be protected,” he explained. The authority has been at work with a team of experts since last September, but Grossi described the situation as “still precarious”.
According to Wagner’s boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the clash “virtually destroyed the Ukrainian army,” and the Russian tycoon’s private mercenary army was also “beaten.” A Russian “partial success” in the city of Donbass is also confirmed by the Ukrainian troops, who say they are still “bravely” in possession of the city, where they have repelled “several enemy attacks”.
Finally yellow on the blast caught near a Russian base in Crimea yesterday and made public by the Ukrainian media. According to local authorities, the cause is the shooting down of a drone by anti-aircraft fire.