The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced a report on the situation in Ukraine for Tuesday. According to a statement by the UN agency, this will include nuclear safety. As announced, four experts left the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant on Monday. Two others remained at the Russian-held facility.
+++ 05:42 report: Russia buys ammunition in North Korea +++
Russia apparently gets artillery ammunition and grenades from North Korea because of Western sanctions. The newspaper “New York Times” reports, citing recently released information from the US secret service. The buying shows that sanctions are beginning to take hold and are limiting Russia’s ability to sustain its invasion of Ukraine, the paper quoted two US officials as saying. Ukraine has launched a counter-offensive in several places, having previously destroyed Russian ammunition dumps.
+++ 05:25 Gazprom: Resumption of Nord Stream 1 depends on Siemens Energy +++
The Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 1 will only resume deliveries to Germany after Siemens Energy has repaired the faulty plant, according to Gazprom’s deputy chairman of the board. “You should ask Siemens, they have to repair the system first,” said the deputy head of the Russian state-owned company, Vitaly Markelov, when asked on the fringes of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok when the pipeline would be able to pump gas again.
+++ 04:49 Russia reacts to oil price caps with more deliveries to Asia +++
According to Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov, Russia will react to price caps on Russian oil by supplying more oil to Asia. “Any measure to impose a price cap will lead to a deficit in its own markets and increase price volatility,” he told journalists at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. Treasury ministers from the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, France and Canada last week gave the green light to a price cap on Russian crude oil to limit Moscow’s revenues in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
+++ 04:02 operator: cooling of nuclear power plant Zaporizhia continues +++
According to the operator, even after the last reactor block of the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant was disconnected from the grid, cooling continues without emergency power generators. Block 6, which covers the internal needs of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, is in operation, says a spokesman for Energoatom. The diesel generators for emergency power were not switched on.
+++ 03:06 Ukraine wants to meet EU requirements by the end of the year +++
By the end of the year Ukraine intends to meet the EU requirements for the start of accession negotiations. “By the end of the year, we intend to fulfill all seven conditions that were set for us when we were granted candidate status,” said Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal on the sidelines of talks with EU representatives in Brussels. The conditions include the selection process for Ukrainian constitutional judges and a stronger fight against corruption – especially at a high level.
+++ 02:10 Selenskyj: Zaporizhia nuclear power plant again shortly before the disaster +++
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is “only one step away from a radiation catastrophe” due to the renewed interruption in the power supply for the second time. Russian shelling blamed them, he says. “The shelling of the power plant shows that the terrorist state doesn’t care what the IAEA will say and what the international community will decide,” Zelensky said, referring to Russia.
+++ 01:14 Habeck does not expect Nord Stream 1 to be put back into operation +++
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck is preparing for the fact that Russia will no longer supply gas to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. “There’s still a bit of gas coming through the Ukraine pipeline, but Nord Stream 1 being reopened isn’t one of the scenarios I’m assuming,” said the Greens politician on ZDF’s “heute journal”.
+++ 00:25 Selenskyj says goodbye to his friend Boris Johnson +++
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said a very emotional farewell to outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “They say there are no friends in politics,” said Zelenskyy in his video address. “But Boris – that’s the case where you understand each other on demand.” He thanked Johnson on behalf of all Ukrainians for his solidarity. “Boris has been with us since the first minute of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine and Europe.” He hopes that the close Ukrainian-British cooperation will also continue with Truss, said Zelenskyj. “We know her well. She has always been on the bright side of European politics.”
+++ 23:32 Kyiv: Russia shells dozens of places in the Donbass +++
According to the Kiev general staff, the Russian army has again shelled dozens of locations in Donbass in eastern Ukraine with artillery and warplanes. The evening report by the Ukrainian military leadership also lists eight places where Russian assaults were repelled. This also includes the area around the town of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, where the Russian advance has been stuck for weeks. According to local authorities, a Russian rocket hit a fuel depot near the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih. The shelling also hit other places in the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine. A woman was killed and three were injured.
+++ 22:20 Khodorkovsky aims at armed resistance in Russia +++
The Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who lives in exile, calls on the Russians still in the country to unleash a wave of “sabotage” against state structures. The goal must be to bring the war in Ukraine to a halt and to destabilize Vladimir Putin’s government, the ex-oligarch tells the Guardian. Khodorkovsky, who spent a decade in prison between 2003 and 2013 and now lives in London, says Putin’s invasion has completely changed the agenda of Russia’s political opposition. He expects “armed resistance” to play a role in the future. “We have to explain to people what they can do, convince them to do it and also help people if it puts them in a dangerous situation,” Khodorkovsky said, according to the paper.
+++ 21:50 “Preserve the Russian world”: Putin issues new doctrine +++
Russian President Vladimir Putin approves a new foreign policy doctrine based on the concept of the “Russian world”. Russia should “protect, preserve and promote the traditions and ideals of the Russian world,” says the 31-page document. “The Russian Federation supports its compatriots living abroad in enforcing their rights in order to ensure the protection of their interests and the preservation of their Russian cultural identity.” The concept of the “Russian world” has been used by conservatives to justify action abroad in support of Russian-speaking groups. Putin has repeatedly referred to the approximately 25 million Russians who found themselves in the independent states that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The government in Moscow regards the former Soviet states from the Baltic States to Central Asia as part of a sphere of influence. Many of these countries, as well as the West, reject this.
+++ 21:15 Gazprom declares Siemens turbine “defective” +++
The Russian gas company Gazprom attributes the delivery stop via the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline to an alleged design defect in the Siemens Energy turbine used. Because of the increased risk of fire and explosion, the Rostechnadzor technical supervisor has prohibited the turbine from continuing to operate, Gazprom said on Monday evening in Moscow. A company with the identified deficiencies contradicts “the norms of Russian legislation”. In the morning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the lifting of sanctions on Russia by the “collective West” a condition for further gas supplies.
+++ 20:45 Sean Penn and Ben Stiller on the Kremlin black list +++
The Russian Foreign Ministry has blacklisted 25 US citizens, including actors Sean Penn and Benn Stiller. Those affected from politics, culture and business will be denied entry to Russia “in response to the sanctions against Russian citizens that the Biden administration is constantly expanding,” the ministry announced in Moscow. Stiller and Penn ended up on the list because of their political involvement. The actors positioned themselves on the side of Kiev after the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Both actors were received by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and expressed their support for Ukraine. In addition to the actors, it also hits several congressmen and company bosses.
+++ 20:15 London certifies Kyiv “real profits” +++
According to London, the Ukrainian troops are making “real gains” in their counter-offensive in the south of the country. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said so in Parliament in London. “Ukraine has severely damaged a number of river crossings in an attempt to limit Russian supplies,” Wallace said. Moscow’s invading army is being both artillery shelled and attacked by ground troops. According to estimates by the British, Russia has suffered around 25,000 deaths in its ranks so far in the course of the war. In total, the Russian invasion forces lost around 80,000 men through deaths, imprisonment, desertion and others, as Wallace says. Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine at the end of February, the British government has regularly published intelligence information on its progress. Military expert Gustav Gressel from the European Council on Foreign Affairs shows how Ukraine has achieved success despite inferior material.
+++ 19:45 Russia recruits soldiers in a clinic for the mentally ill +++
Russia recruits volunteers for the war against Ukraine from a psychiatric facility in St. Petersburg. The website of the Psychoneurological Pharmacy No. 2 in St. Petersburg presents a corresponding flyer on its homepage, which calls on those willing to fight to join the volunteer battalions. A promotional banner shows how to pass a psychiatric evaluation for a permit to carry a gun. The news site Nexta commented: “Stable Russia”
+++ 19:15 “Available immediately”: Melnyk lists weapons for Cherson +++
The outgoing Ukrainian ambassador Andriy Melnyk is demanding massive support from Germany for Ukraine’s southern offensive. Referring to a list by the FDP defense politician Marcus Faber, he writes: “Dear Federal Government, why are you refusing to Ukraine these heavy weapons that can be delivered immediately? Finally listen to your own defense politicians.” Faber previously posted a list of available weapons: 470 Marder, 180 Leopard 1, 320 Leopard 2 and over 800 Fuchspanzer. Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht only emphasized at the government meeting in Meseberg at the end of August that the Bundeswehr had hardly any reserves that could be sent to Ukraine.
You can read earlier developments relating to the Ukraine war here.