Officials in the region near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant said on Wednesday that Russia killed 13 civilians in nighttime attacks in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, sparking mutual accusations over the attacks between Russia and Ukraine.
In this relatively safe area, where civilians evacuated from Donbass, the epicenter of the Russian offensive, were taken, 11 people, five of whom were in serious condition, were injured in the night attack.
“We had a terrible night (…) It is very difficult to get the bodies out of the rubble,” Governor Valentin Reznichenko said in a message on Telegram.
“During the airstrike, I ask people to go to safe places… don’t let the Russians kill them,” he added.
The governor announced that the town of Marganets and the town of Vyshshetarassivka, on the banks of the Dnipro River, near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, were the targets of attacks with Grad rocket launchers.
“Eighty rockets were deliberately and insidiously fired into residential areas while people were sleeping in their homes,” he said.
Although the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been the subject of accusations over bombings between Moscow and Kyiv, no independent source has been able to confirm the allegations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demonstrated the specter of the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear accident in history that occurred at a Soviet power plant on Ukrainian soil in 1986.
On Tuesday night, Ukrainian operator Energoatom said Russian forces were preparing for an operation to connect the plant to Crimea, a peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014, damaging power lines in the process.
The grain sale was cancelled; Reconnect Crimea
On Tuesday, explosions took place in an ammunition depot at a military airbase in Crimea, which left one dead and many injured. The Russian military said the incident was not caused by gunfire or bombing.
President Zelensky said he plans to reunite this region, which has been under Russian rule since 2014, adding that “Crimea is Ukrainian and we will never give up on it.”
The contract for the sale of the first shipment of grain exported by Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian occupation to the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut, in the economic sphere, was canceled before it reached its destination in Lebanon, due to the delay in delivery.
The “Razoni”, a cargo ship flying the flag of Sierra Leone, departed from the Ukrainian port of Odessa with 26,000 tons of corn on 1 August and was due to dock in the Lebanese port of Tripoli on Sunday.
However, the five-month delay in delivery led to the cancellation of the order, according to the Ukrainian embassy. The cargo is now waiting for a new buyer.
Russia and Ukraine signed two agreements on July 22, under the mediation of Turkey and the UN, allowing the sale of Russian agricultural products despite the sanctions and the resumption of Ukraine’s grain exports, which had been hampered by the war that started on February 24.
Eight ships have sailed since the signing of the agreement, according to Ukrainian officials, who expect between three and five ships to leave a day in the coming weeks.
On Monday, the first ship arrived at its final destination in Turkey.
source: Noticias
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