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news of the day
Dangerous tensions around the Ukrainian power plant in Zaporozhye. The Russian forces, which occupy the plant, are now seeking to connect its electricity production to Crimea. A peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014. This operation requires damaging the power lines of the plant connected to the Ukrainian energy system. “At the moment, the plant is operating with a single production line, which is an extremely dangerous way of working,” warns the president of Energoatom, Petro Kotin. “It is the continued control of the plant by Russia that puts the region in danger,” said the group of the most industrialized countries of the G7.
The phrase
“We had a horrible night… It’s very hard to get the bodies out of the rubble. I beg you, go to safe places during the air raids (…) Don’t let the Russians kill you. »
With these serious words, Governor Valentin Reznitchenko returns to the Russian bombardments which hit the Dnipropetrovsk region. During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, Russian strikes killed thirteen civilians in central-eastern Ukraine. The governor adds that “eighty rockets were deliberately and insidiously launched at residential neighborhoods while people were sleeping in their homes. »
The number
3,000. This is the number of civilians evacuated from Donetsk since July 30, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered the evacuation of the population. Russian military efforts are particularly concentrated in this region of Donbass. In total, more than 1.3 million people have been evacuated from the Donetsk region since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.
The trend of the day
His strong gesture had gone around the world. Known for having interrupted a Russian state newspaper by brandishing a poster against the offensive in Ukraine, journalist Marina Ovsyannikova was arrested in Moscow. “At 6 a.m., while I was still sleeping, ten members of the investigation committee and the police broke into my home,” she said on Telegram. The Russian authorities blame her for a demonstration in front of the Kremlin last July, during which she called Vladimir Putin a “murderer”.