UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi has begun a go to to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia energy plant in southern Ukraine, a day later than deliberate after safety issues. His journey comes as Ukrainian forces intercepted one cruise missile and 20 explosive drones launched by Russia in its newest nighttime assault. Follow our reside weblog for all the newest developments on the conflict in Ukraine. All instances are Paris time (GMT+2).
11:37am: IAEA chief Rafael Rossi begins Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant go to
UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi has began a go to to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant in southern Ukraine, Ukrainian nuclear vitality firm Energoatom mentioned on Thursday.
10:38am: Child killed by Ukrainian shelling in Kherson area
A baby was killed by Ukrainian shelling in Ukraine’s partly Russian-held southern Kherson area, the TASS news company reported on Thursday, citing Russian-installed authorities there.
Kherson is certainly one of 4 areas Russia claims to have annexed from Ukraine final 12 months, although its forces don’t totally management the territory.
9:45am: Belarus shoots down Ukrainian drone over border area
Belarusian border guards shot down a Ukrainian drone over Gomel area, which borders Ukraine, Russian state-owned news company TASS reported the Belarusian border service as saying on Thursday.
9:12am: Ukraine intercepts one cruise missile and 20 explosive drones
Ukrainian forces intercepted one cruise missile and 20 explosive drones launched by Russia in its newest nighttime assault, the navy mentioned Thursday.
But three different missiles struck “industrial installations in the Dnipropetrovsk region” within the centre-east of Ukraine, it mentioned.
8:53am: Ukrainian forces making small advances in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk
Ukrainian forces have superior by a number of hundred metres each within the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk areas, FRANCE 24’s correspondent Gulliver Cragg experiences from Zaporizhzhia.
“They’re attacking along a very, very long frontline in multiple locations,” Cragg mentioned, explaining that for analysts the small advances had been “in a sense probing operations”.
“When the Ukrainians sense that there is one place along the frontline where the Russian defences – the main Russian defence line – can be more easily breached, they will start concentrating more forces in one place.”
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8:20am: Norway and Denmark to donate 9,000 rounds of artillery to Ukraine
Norway and Denmark have agreed to donate a further 9,000 rounds of artillery to Ukraine, the Norwegian ministry of defence mentioned in an announcement on Thursday.
Norway will present the shells, whereas Denmark will donate fuses and propellant costs, the Norwegian ministry mentioned.
7:00am: IAEA chief Rafael Rossi to go to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi will go to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant on Thursday, a day later than beforehand deliberate, Interfax news company cited a Russian-installed native official as saying on Wednesday.
The delay was attributed to security issues, in accordance with a senior official.
6:48am: Russia strikes industrial services in Kryvyi Rih
Russian missiles hit two industrial services within the central Ukrainian metropolis Kryvyi Rih within the early hours of Thursday, metropolis mayor Oleksandr Vilkul mentioned, with an drone assault additionally reported in Odesa.
Vilku mentioned three rockets hit two industrial enterprises “that had nothing to do with the military”, injuring one 38-year-old man. One automobile was broken with particles of missiles downed by air defences.
“The destruction is significant,” Vilkul wrote on Telegram messaging app.
9:15pm: Captured Ukrainian troopers face trial in Russia
More than 20 Ukrainian troopers who had been taken prisoner throughout combating in Ukraine went on trial in southern Russia on Wednesday.
The captured troopers had been members of the Azov battalion, an elite Ukrainian armed forces unit that fought Russian troops within the Sea of Azov port of Mariupol. Russia captured Mariupol final 12 months after a three-month battle that decreased many of the metropolis to smoldering ruins.
The final remaining Ukrainian defenders who holed up at a large metal mill in Mariupol surrendered to Russian forces in May 2022.
Russian authorities have designated the Azov battalion as a terrorist group. The defendants are going through costs of involvement in a terrorist organisation and participating in motion to overthrow the Russia-backed authorities within the Donetsk area.
They face sentences starting from 15 years to life in jail if convicted.
Key developments from Wednesday, June 14:
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko mentioned his nation has began taking supply of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, a few of which he mentioned had been thrice extra highly effective than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
“We have missiles and bombs that we have received from Russia,” Lukashenko mentioned in an interview with the Rossiya-1 Russian state TV channel which was posted on the Belarusian Belta state news company’s Telegram channel.
“The bombs are three times more powerful than those (dropped on) Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” he mentioned.
At least three folks had been killed and 13 wounded in a Russian missile assault on the southern Ukrainian port metropolis of Odesa early Wednesday, authorities mentioned.
Russia fired 4 Kalibr missiles from a ship within the Black Sea, Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesman for the area’s navy administration, mentioned on Telegram.
A strike on a retail chain’s warehouse killed three workers and wounded seven others, he mentioned.
“There may be people under the rubble,” he added.
Read yesterday’s liveblog to see how the day’s occasions unfolded.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
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