The war between Russia and Ukraine reaches its day 917 since its beginning on February 24, 2022, when the Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” to free the pro-Russian population from Ukrainian region of Donbas.
Hoy Wednesday, August 28, 2024, Kursk military operation, a “success” in the eyes of kyiv.
On the front, the Russian forces continue to focus their greater efforts in advance towards the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk y have taken in the last hours two other locations in that area of the front, the influential Ukrainian military Telegram channel DeepState, which follows the war on a daily basis, reported on Wednesday.
“The enemy has occupied Memrik y Kalinov“, reads the latest report from DeepState, which also speaks of Russian advances in other areas of the Donetsk region.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday the toma of the Orlivka villagealso located near the Pokrovsk logistics hubwhich is currently the main objective of the Kremlin troops on the Ukrainian front.
Russia also recently claimed responsibility for taking the towns of Mezhov, Zhelanne, New York y Zalizne.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Kiev troops have repelled a total of 55 enemy attacks on the Pokrovsk axis over the past 24 hours, which remains the hottest on the entire contact line.
While, Ukraine continues its operation in the Russian oblast of Kurskwhere mechanized troops from kyiv entered enemy territory at the beginning of an unprecedented maneuver in terms of its magnitude.
According to the head of the Ukrainian Army, Oleksandr Sirski, on Tuesday, Ukraine controls around 100 towns and nearly 1,300 square kilometres in Kursk.
Russia and Ukraine also continue to exchange blows behind their backs, with Kiev hitting refineries y aerodromes on Russian territory and Moscow once again punishing the Ukrainian energy system this week.
After he massive russian attack With missiles and drones on Monday, the Ukrainian authorities have been forced to reintroduce emergency blackouts and they announced this Wednesday New power cuts in some regions.
Russia-Ukraine War Day 917: Rafael Grossi, Director of the IAEA warns of a second Chernobyl during his visit to the Kursk nuclear power plant
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Raphael Grossi, alerted contra the possibility by one second Chernobyl -the largest nuclear catastrophe occurred in 1986- when performing your first inspection to the Russian Kursk power plant, threatened by the fights in that homonymous border region.
“We believe that it is very serious that one central of this class be so close by one battle front“Grossi told the international press at the end of his inspection visit to the plant, whose reactor -as he said- is very exposed to a possible attack.
Grossi, who visited the city on several occasions, Ukrainian Central Zaporiyyathe largest in Europe, He had never seemed so worried as on this occasion due to the vulnerability of the central de Kurskwhich began to operate in 1976one year before Chernobyl.
After inspect he reactor and the plant control roomlocated about 70 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, the Argentine official caught attention of the international community about “the danger of a nuclear incident”.
“Under no circumstances should a nuclear power plant be attacked“, he stressed and called on all parties to take the necessary preventive measures.
Considered a exaggeration compare las Kursk and Chernobyl power plantsbut if admitted that their reactors are of the same class (RBMK).
In this regard, he assured that the central does not count with “the defense and containment structures of other more modern plants“, which -he said- can withstand the impact of an airplane, and stressed that “the The reactor core is protected by a normal roof”, pointing to one of the adjoining buildings.
All this makes the active reactor zone in “fragile” y “extremely exposed“in the face of “an artillery or drone attack.”
“Indeed, in case of impactof an external action over the active zone of that reactor, a nuclear incident will occurpossibly, with radioactive leak“He said, although he considered it “difficult to know whether (an incident in Kursk) would be of the same magnitude as an accident at the Chernobyl plant.”
Big ones He refused to point out culprits of the current situation, but stressed that the fighting is “just a few kilometers away” and that the consequences by one attack against the plant I would be ““extremely serious”.
In response to a journalist’s question, he admitted that can not be separated the nuclear facility security from fighting which have been taking place for exactly three weeks in Kursk.
In fact, He claimed to have seen with their own eyes fragments by one drone found about a hundred metres from the plant’s used nuclear fuel storage facility, something that was reported by the IAEA itself.
Big ones gave thanks to the Russian president, Vladimir Putinby invite you to inspect the plant “in such extraordinary conditions.”
Last week, the Kremlin chief accused Kiev of trying to attack the plant, which was categorically denied by kyiv.
Chernobyl (EFE)
Russia Ukraine War Day 917: Ukraine successfully tests its first home-made ballistic missile, according to Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine has successfully tested its first home-made ballistic missileas announced by the country’s president, Volodímir Zelenskiat a press conference with dozens of Ukrainian and foreign journalists held on Tuesday in kyiv.
“It may be too early to talk about it, but I want to share it with you,” said Zelensky, who last Saturday, on the occasion of the celebration of Thirty-third anniversary of Ukraine’s independenceannounced the Incorporation of a nationally manufactured drone missile into the Army arsenal that already has been used against Russian forces.
Zelensky – who insisted in the urgency that their Western allies allow it to strike military targets located inside Russia with the long-range weapons sent to Ukraine– congratulated the national defense industry for these achievements.
Ukraine has received missiles from countries like France, United Kingdom o USA SCALP/T long-range missiles, Storm Shadow o ATACMS which it cannot use against targets inside Russia for fear of its partners’ possible reaction from Moscow.
Faced with this situation, kyiv has to resort to home-made weapons, which it is developing at a race against time in the midst of the war, in order to reach areas of Russia far from its borders.
American ATACMS missiles delivered to Ukraine (Courtesy)
Kursk operation a “success” in the eyes of kyiv
The Ukrainian offensive at Kursk enters its fourth week and their Troops continue to advancewhile Many Ukrainians hope the benefits of the operation outweigh the risks y Moscow continues to make progress slowly but steadily towards Pokrovsk.
Almost 1,300 square kilometers and a hundred localities are currently under Ukrainian control in Kurskannounced the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, Oleksandr Sirski.
The operation has been “a success”the president also said on Tuesday, Volodímir Zelenskialthough he stressed that some of the objectives cannot be revealed at the moment.
The Incursion is part of Ukrainian victory planwhich will be presented next month to the American president, Joe Bidenas well as the candidates Kamala Harris y Donald Trumphe explained.
kyiv also stressed on Tuesday that its attack has thwarted Moscow’s plans to step up its offensive against northeastern region of Jarkov and to attack other Ukrainian border regions.
Some 30,000 Russian troops are now in the area, while Ukrainian forces could number around 10,000.
He Río Seim provides a significant defensive advantage to the Ukrainian side, according to the expert.
Ukraine already has destroyed a good part of the Russian logistics network north of the river and could inflict significant losses at Russian forcesparticularly if Putin eventually decides to transfer more troops there.
If necessary, Ukraine could also withdraw its own forces with relative ease..
So far, the operation has not succeeded in attracting Russian forces from the Pokrovsk area.in the Donetsk region, where the most recent Russian advances have been concentrated.
Ukrainian troops destroy Russian bridges and bases in Kursk raid (Yan DOBRONOSOV / AFP)
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