Ukraine said on Friday that it had attacked a Russian base in Energodar, in the south of the country, not far from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant from where it accuses Russia of having withdrawn its weapons before its inspection by a team from the International Agency of Atomic Energy. (IAEA).
Ukraine takes stock of its strikes at Energodar
At the same time, as the G7 countries took aim at Russia’s energy windfall by agreeing to cap the price of its oil, Moscow sent a chill through Europeans by announcing that the Nord Stream gas pipeline would be shut down entirely until repairs. .a turbine, a reason considered fallacious by Germany, which depends heavily on Russian gas.
“In the towns of Kherson and Energodar, precise strikes by our troops destroyed three enemy artillery systems, as well as an ammunition depot,” killing many Russian soldiers, the Ukrainian military said in a statement on its daily news.
mutual accusations
The Ukrainian military has also claimed that Russian forces had evacuated “all their military equipment from the plant site” before the arrival on Thursday of the IAEA mission, several of whose members remained at the plant and are always there. The Zaporizhia power plant, the largest in Europe, fell to Russian troops in March, shortly after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, and its site was targeted by several bombing raids that raised fears of a nuclear disaster. Kyiv and Moscow deny responsibility for these attacks.
On Thursday morning, before the arrival of the IAEA mission, the Ukrainian authorities had accused the Russians of having themselves bombed Energodar, a city they control, with the intention of holding Kyiv responsible.
Source: BFM TV
