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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2024 12:01:15 GMT
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Post by Admin on Aug 18, 2024 0:11:48 GMT
IAEA reports drone strike on road around Zaporizhia NPP perimeter
The International Atomic Energy Agency has issued a statement saying a drone loaded with explosives was attacked on a road running along the perimeter of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant.
The drone exploded on Saturday on a road connecting the two main entrances to the plant, the IAEA said in a statement . The agency's experts visited the site of the explosion, which damaged the road itself, was close to a cooling pond and less than 100 meters from the only remaining high-voltage line supplying power to the plant. The IAEA has consistently said that one of the most important safety conditions for nuclear power plants is the availability of external sources of electricity.
There were no casualties at the plant or its equipment. The IAEA has not specified who launched the drone.
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Post by Admin on Aug 19, 2024 13:28:57 GMT
Emil Kastehelmi, a military expert at the Black Bird Group, a Finland-based open source intelligence and analysis company, points out that the Ukrainian military is also suffering from a lack of human resources. Therefore, carrying out a cross-border attack like this one could unnecessarily waste Ukraine's valuable human resources.
"Capturing dozens of villages on the Russian border at the cost of many lives and equipment is of no use," he told the magazine. "Generally speaking, this war will not be resolved in Kursk. The most strategically important region remains eastern and southern Ukraine."
Biksanovich agrees that it makes no sense for Ukrainian forces to carry out cross-border attacks when they are "overwhelmed" by Russian forces in the Donbas region. Even if it reveals the weakness of Russia'sborder defenses and the incompetence of its leadership, it will not win the war.
One aim of Ukraine's invasion of Russia may be to demonstrate that the morale of the Ukrainian military is still high and elicit support from Western countries, Biksanovich said. “Ukraine is wary of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election because if Trump wins, there is a risk of cutting off aid to Ukraine.”
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Post by Admin on Aug 20, 2024 12:54:00 GMT
[London Kyodo] President of the Ukrainian Paralympic Committee Sushkevich has received a notice from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) by the 20th prohibiting all political speech and protest activities during the Paris Paralympic Games, which open on the 28th. He announced that he had received it. It appears that protests against Russia's invasion of Ukraine were also targeted, and criticized the IPC, calling it a "human rights violation and against peace."
[Photo] A security guard at the Olympic venue picks up a towel with the word "Taiwan" written on it.
Sushkevich cited a case in which Ukrainian para athletes stood on the podium at a recent international tournament and did not shake hands with athletes from Russia and Belarus. He acknowledged that the aim was to check the actions of the players.
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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2024 18:44:53 GMT
Radio Free Europe showed Russian residents of Sudzha, they said that Ukrainian troops are helping them
Funded by the US Congress but independent in its editorial policy, Radio Free Europe (in Russia it is endowed with all possible repressive statuses, including “undesirable organization”) posted a video report from the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region, occupied by the Ukrainian army.
The story features several representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and several people in civilian clothes with blurred faces, talking about living conditions in the city. They say little about contacts with the Ukrainian military, except for one woman who thanks them for bringing water.
Representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, for their part, say that they recently connected the water supply and that they are supplying residents with food, bottled water and medicines and providing them with medical assistance.
The story also shows that the Lenin monument in Sudzha, typical of a Soviet city, was torn down. In earlier media reports from Sudzha, it was clear that the monument, although badly damaged, was still standing on its pedestal. The story does not explain why it was torn down; in Ukraine, such monuments were torn down in accordance with the decommunization law, and before that, spontaneously.
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