The war between Russia and Ukraine reaches its day 911 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 Thursday, August 22, 2024, Vladimir Putin accuses a Ukraine of attempt to attack the Kursk nuclear power plant.
On the battle front, the Ministry of Defense of Russia released a video on Thursday in which it can be seen how a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber attacked at night at Ukrainian troops and their armored equipment in a border area of the Russian province of Kursk.
The statement from the Ministry of Defense states that the plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces used modernized FAB-500 aerial bombswith a universal planned descent and correction module, each weighing half a ton.
Having ensured the destruction of the fortified targets, the fighter-bomber returned to the departure airfield.
Russia detains 3 Ukrainian intelligence agents in Crimea
He Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB, for its acronym in Russian) reported on Thursday that stopped a three Ukrainian intelligence agents what planned y participated in acts of sabotage in Crimea and that, furthermore, collected data on the Russian Armed Forces.
According to the statement, one of them is a Russian citizen what manufactured and improvised explosive device used for undermining a gas pipeline in Crimea in July 2024.
The other two – a Russian and a Moldovan – collected information on the deployment of air defence systems, the location of military installations and the places of residence of senior military officials, among other data.
Based on information provided by the Moldovan citizen, the Russian agents found a hideout with a explosive device what was to be used to blow up a water pumping station.
Crisis with Ukraine deepens; Putin accuses Ukraine of terrorist intervention in Crimea
Concrete shelters are being built in the capital of Kursk and the nuclear city of Kurchatov
The autorid Russian war of Kurskthe scene of a Ukrainian border incursion, They started today at install concrete shelters in the eponymous regional capital and The same plans were announced for the nuclear city of Kurchatov.
As reported on Telegram Alexei Smirnov, acting governoron Thursday Construction began in the main population concentration areassuch as public squares.
Also These shelters will be set up next to the main bus stops in Kursk.a city of less than half a million inhabitants.
Smirnov said that the sites for erecting shelters in the town of Zhelesnogorskwhich has less than 100 thousand inhabitants.
In addition, the number of shelters to be built in the town of Kurchatovknown for hosting in its vicinity the central nuclear de Kursk.
Ukrainian President, Volodímir Zelenski, visited today the neighboring region of Sumi, from which review the march of the military operation in Kurskwhere Ukrainian troops are said to have captured a new town.
Russia, which has not only been unable to expel enemy troops but has also continued to lose ground since August 6, has created three new military groups to protect the border.
File photo of a building damaged by Ukrainian attacks in the Kursk region, Russia. EFE/EPA/STRINGER
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Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of trying to attack Kursk nuclear power plant
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, accused This Thursday at Ukraine of attempt attack the central nuclear of Kurskduring a meeting with the Government on the situation in that region partially invaded by Ukrainian forces.
“The enemy attempted to attack the nuclear plant tonight. The International Atomic Energy Agency has already been informed.”
Vladimir Putin during a meeting broadcast on television
Putin, whose army controls in Ukrainian territory the Zaporizhia plantthe largest in Europe, stressed that the IAEA promised to send its specialists to Kursk for “assess the situation”.
He IAEA Director Rafael Grossi, will travel the next week to the Russian border regionRussian official sources reported today.
During the meeting, the Kremlin chief asked Kursk Governor Alexei Smirnov about the situation around the plant.
“The situation is stable, under control. Everyone is working normally,” he replied.
The director general of Rosatom, the Russian nuclear agency, Alexei Likhachev, warned Grossi last week of the danger of Ukrainian attacks on the nuclear power plants. Zaporizhia and Kursk nuclear plantswhere the situation has worsened “considerably”.
Likhachev said the situation is especially tense in Kurchatova city that hosts the nuclear power plant Kursk and where “air raid alarms are activated between 10 and 12 times every day.”
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2024-08-22 14:59:31