The war between Russia and Ukraine reaches its day 923 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 Tuesday, September 3, 2024, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is received with honors in Mongolia despite an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (CPI).
On another topic, at least 41 people have been killed and 180 others have been injured in a Russian attack con two ballistic missiles that have reached an educational institution and a hospital in the city of Poltavain central Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported on his social networks.
“People were trapped under the rubble. Many were saved. More than 180 people were injured. Unfortunately, many people were killed. At the moment we know of 41 dead. My condolences to all the families and loved ones,” Zelensky wrote about the attack, one of the deadliest since the beginning of the war.
Shortly after the massacre was announced, the Facebook page of the Poltava Military Institute of Communications updated its wall with a photograph of a lit candle, which was immediately responded to by dozens of users with messages of condolence.
Zelensky has ordered a “complete” investigation of all circumstances in what the attack has occurred.
According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the Ballistic missiles have fallen at the impact site almost immediately after the anti-aircraft alarms soundedso the people who were there on the spot He has not had time to take refuge in basements or anti-aircraft bunkers..
Meanwhile, the pro-war Russian Telegram channel Rybar claims that dozens of Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the attack, including “highly valued specialists in communications and electronic warfare.”
Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukrainian operation in Kursk is going according to plan
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, declared on Monday during a joint press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia (southeast) that Operation of the kyiv troops in the Russian oblast of Kursk is going according to plan.
“The Kursk operation is fulfilling its mission and is going according to plan,” Zelensky said, adding that the presence of the Ukrainian troops in this Russian border region -in which they control, according to the latest report from kyiv, nearly a thousand localities and almost 1,300 square kilometers – could influence the situation on the eastern front in Ukraine.
“As regards the difficulties in the axes of Pokrovsk y Toretskwe consider that the operation of Kursk “This may also have an impact. It may be that the intensity will be reduced by reducing the number of Russian troops, but for now the situation there is difficult,” the Ukrainian head of state said.
Pokrovsk and Toretsk, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, are two of the areas of the front where Ukraine is trying to contain the advances of the Russian army, which has captured numerous towns on the eastern front in recent months.
Zelensky once again insisted that the conquest of the entire Donbas (historical region of Ukraine consisting of the regions of Donetsk y Luhanskpartially occupied by Russia) “was always the main objective” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Volodymyr Zelensky at the Ukraine Peace Summit in Switzerland (EFE)
IAEA Director Rafael Grossi arrives in Ukraine to visit the occupied Zaporizhia plant
He Director General of the IAEAthe UN nuclear agency, Raphael Grossi, is scheduled to arrive in kyiv on Tuesdayfrom where it is will transfer to the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plantin the south of the country.
In a message on the social network X, the Argentine diplomat announced last night with a photo his departure by train from the Polish-Ukrainian border to kyiv.
“It has been two years since we established the International Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhia (#ISAMZ) at @IAEAorg to help ensure nuclear safety at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant,” Grossi said.
“I am on my way to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine to continue our assistance and help prevent a nuclear accident,” the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) added.
This nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, has been under Russian military occupation since March 2022, a few days after the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
He IAEA has been warning both sides of the conflictboth to the Russian aggressors and to the Ukrainian defense of do not use nuclear power plants of the country as a battle objective in the face of the risk of an atomic accident.
Grossi’s visit comes just days after the director general was in Kursk to inspect the local nuclear power plant, amid the recent Ukrainian offensive in that Russian region.
Rafael Grossi, head of the IAEA (ANDREY BORODULIN / AFP)
Vladimir Putin is received with honours in Mongolia despite ICC arrest warrant
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, met This Tuesday in Ulaanbaatar with the president of mongolia, Ukhnaa Khurelsukhas part of a official visit what challenge the arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (CPI) by Alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
Putin was received with all honours in the plaza de Gengis Kan of the capital of Mongoliawhich celebrate he 85th anniversary of the victory of the Mongolian and Soviet forces against Imperial Japan and that is the official reason for the Russian’s visit.
During the meeting between the two leaders, Khurelsukh expressed his “gratitude” to Putin for this visit, The Mongolian Foreign Ministry also reports that both “They reviewed the current state of bilateral relations y discussed ways to enhance cooperation in economic affairsparticularly in the areas of combustible, energy, transport, environment, culture, education y health”.
According to this department, both leaders highlighted “positively” the signing of an intergovernmental agreement for the supply of petroleum products and the preparation of design documentation and budget for the expansion and modernization project of the Thermal Power Plant No. 3.
Khurelsukh noted that the Construction of the Eg River Hydroelectric Power Plant is “moving forward thanks to the joint efforts of both parties,” and praised the decision to establish a joint working group to conduct an environmental assessment.
In addition, Both parties expressed are confidence that the provisional Free Trade Agreement that is will sign at the end of this year between Mongolia and the Eurasian Economic Union could “create new opportunities to expand the legal framework for trade and cooperation.”
Putin and Khurelsukh agreed in the Importance of accelerating the creation of the Mongolia-Russia-China Economic Corridor adds the portfolio.
For its part, the Russian President Invites Khurelsukh to BRICS Summit which will take place between the October 22 and 24 in the city of Kazan“This will be the first event of this level after the expansion of the organisation and we hope that they will participate in the BRICS+ format,” Putin was quoted as saying by the official TASS news agency.
Putin also invited his Mongolian counterpart to join the celebrations for the anniversary. 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany on May 9 next year.
This is the Putin’s first visit to an ICC member state since this body issued he last year a arrest warrant against the Russian president for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, a decision criticized by Moscow.
In 2023, Putin decided not to attend the summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies hosted by South Africa by fear of being arrested.
The The ICC officially called on Mongolia on Fridaywhich signed the treaty in 2000 and ratified it in 2002, cooperate with that court and stop the russian president.
Las Diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Russia date back to 1921.with embassies established in Ulaanbaatar and Moscow since 1922, underlining the connection between the two countries, now renewed in a context of growing international tensions.
Vladimir Putin is received with honours in Mongolia despite ICC arrest warrant (KRISTINA KORMILITSYNA / SPUTNIK / EFE)
2024-09-03 15:07:29