#zaporizhzhya

[stop-war-ukraine]

Russian drone attacked an IAEA vehicle on its way to the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi condemned the act, calling it “unacceptable.”

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

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Zaporizhzhya Ukraine

[europahoynews]

Ucrania: Deterioro de la seguridad en la central nuclear de Zaporizhzhya tras la explosión de un dron cercano

Situada en el sur de Ucrania, Zaporizhzhya es la planta nuclear más grande de Europa y ha estado bajo control ruso desde poco después del lanzamiento de la invasión a gran escala en febrero de 2022. Un OIEA El equipo ubicado allí fue informado de que un explosivo transportado por un dron detonó en las afueras del área protegida de la planta. Recurso de moderación El lugar del impacto estaba cerca…

[agreenroad]

Cooling system at Zaporizhzhya stabilised – but military action in the area continues

Cooling system at Zaporizhzhya stabilised – but military action in the area continues

[taiwantalk]

melitopol??? "russian convoy was eliminated on the border of vailyivka and melitopol district," but by ukrainian resistance in the occupied territories, which means, it's behind the frontline.

russian forces in kherson oblast are so fucked. they got flooded by their own catastrophic demolition of kakhovka dam, they have no fresh water, they're sick with cholera, they cannot just reinforce zaporizhzhya because that's just what ukrainians want them to do. if russian infantry in kherson oblast want to live, they'd have to retreat to crimea because the line gets congested.

but crimea most likely will just be ordered to prohibit any retreat into crimea.

[ukrainenews]

Daily Wrap Up May 5-7, 2023

Under the cut:

Ukraine hailed the return of 45 Azov battalion fighters captured during the battle for Mariupol while Russia said three of its pilots had been released by Kyiv, but neither side gave a full account of the apparent prisoner swap, Reuters reports. The freed Ukrainian prisoners included 42 men and three women from the Azov battalion, said Andriy Yermak, the head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office.

Ukraine’s air force has claimed to have downed a Russian hypersonic missile over Kyiv using newly acquired American Patriot defence systems, the first known time the country has been able to intercept one of Moscow’s most modern missiles.

At least five people were wounded in Russian strikes on Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported in the early hours of May 8, as Moscow launched another large-scale attack on Ukraine. Three people were injured in blasts in Kyiv’s Solomyanskyi district, and two others were injured when drone wreckage fell in the Sviatoshynskyi district, both west of the capital’s center, Klitschko said via his official Telegram channel. (These numbers may continue to change. Also, due to time zones, I'm including in this wrap up because it's still 7 May for me.)

Some 1,679 people, including 660 children, have been evacuated from areas near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, a Moscow-installed official in the Russia-controlled parts of the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine said late on Sunday.

Ukraine hailed the return of 45 Azov battalion fighters captured during the battle for Mariupol while Russia said three of its pilots had been released by Kyiv, but neither side gave a full account of the apparent prisoner swap, Reuters reports.

The freed Ukrainian prisoners included 42 men and three women from the Azov battalion, said Andriy Yermak, the head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office.

Azov battalion fighters, who did much of the fighting in the failed defence of the port city of Mariupol, have been lionized as heroes by many Ukrainians but are widely vilified in Russia.

On the Telegram app in a post that did not mention the release of Russian prisoners, Yermak said:

Excellent news on this sunny day. We are returning home 45 of our people. Thirty-five privates and sergeants, 10 officers.

The Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement that three pilots had been returned and were being provided with medical and psychological assistance.

The statement, which did not mention the 45 Ukrainian prisoners, said:

As a result of a difficult negotiation process, three Russian pilots of the Russian Aerospace Forces, who had been in mortal danger while in captivity, were returned from Kyiv-controlled territory.

There were no reports on Russian state media of additional Russian prisoner releases.

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, which coordinates prisoner exchanges with Russia, did not immediately respond to a request for more details.

Moscow and Kyiv have agreed a number of prisoner exchanges since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February last year.

Russia says it launched its “special military operation” to counter a threat from Kyiv’s relations with the west, while Ukraine and its western partners say it was an unprovoked land grab.

-via The Guardian

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Ukraine’s air force has claimed to have downed a Russian hypersonic missile over Kyiv using newly acquired American Patriot defence systems, the first known time the country has been able to intercept one of Moscow’s most modern missiles.

Air force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said in a Telegram post that the Kinzhal-type ballistic missile had been intercepted in an overnight attack on the Ukrainian capital earlier in the week. It was also the first time Ukraine is known to have used the Patriot defence systems.

“Yes, we shot down the ‘unique’ Kinzhal,” Oleshchuk wrote. “It happened during the night time attack on 4 May in the skies of the Kyiv region.”

Oleshchuk said the Kh-47 missile was launched by a MiG-31K aircraft from the Russian territory and was shot down with a Patriot missile, AP reported.

The Kinzhal is one of the latest and most advanced Russian weapons. The Russian military says the air-launched ballistic missile has a range of up to 2,000km (about 1,250 miles) and flies at 10 times the speed of sound, making it hard to intercept.

A combination of hypersonic speed and a heavy warhead allows the Kinzhal to destroy heavily fortified targets, like underground bunkers or mountain tunnels. The Ukrainian military has previously admitted lacking assets to intercept the Kinzhals.

Ukraine took its first delivery of the Patriot missiles in late April. It has not specified how many of the systems it has, but they have been provided by the US, Germany and the Netherlands.

Germany has acknowledged sending at least one system and the Netherlands has said it has provided two.

-via The Guardian

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At least five people were wounded in Russian strikes on Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported in the early hours of May 8, as Moscow launched another large-scale attack on Ukraine.

Three people were injured in blasts in Kyiv’s Solomyanskyi district, and two others were injured when drone wreckage fell in the Sviatoshynskyi district, both west of the capital’s center, Klitschko said via his official Telegram channel.

Two injured from the Sviatoshynskyi district were transferred to the hospital.

Klitschko later added that drone wreckage fell on a two-story building in the Sviatoshynskyi district, adding that explosions continued in Kyiv.

The city’s military administration said debris also fell in the central Shevchenkivskyi district. A high-pressure gas pipe is damaged as a result of the attacks. The first responders have been called to the scene.

A parked car caught fire in the yard of a residential building due to the falling debris, and other debris fell on a separate residential building, the roadway, and the runway of the Ihor Sikorsky Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany), according to the administration.

The Kyiv Independent reporters had heard numerous explosions in Kyiv, with local officials saying that air defense systems were repelling the attacks.

While an air raid alert has been on, an explosion was also heard following a missile attack that hit the Black Sea city of Odesa overnight, a local Ukrainian official said. Ukrainian media reported sounds of explosions in the southern Kherson Oblast.

Russian forces fired Kh-22 missiles at the warehouse of a food company and a recreational area on the Black Sea coast, according to Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesperson for the Odesa military administration. There were no reports of casualties.

-via Kyiv Independent

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Some 1,679 people, including 660 children, have been evacuated from areas near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, a Moscow-installed official in the Russia-controlled parts of the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine said late on Sunday.

The head of the U.N.'s nuclear power watchdog warned on Saturday that the situation around the plant has become "potentially dangerous" as Moscow-installed officials began evacuating people from nearby areas.

Ukraine is expected to start soon a much-anticipated counteroffensive to retake Russian-held territory, including in the Zaporizhzhia region.

"(The evacuees) have already been placed in the temporary accommodation centre for residents of the front-line territories of the Zaporizhzhia region in Berdiansk," Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian-installed governor of the Russia-controlled part of Zaporizhzhia region, said on his Telegram messaging channel.

Berdiansk is a south-eastern Ukrainian port city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, which has been occupied by Russia since the early days of Moscow's invasion on Ukraine in February 2022.

-via Reuters

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[live-long-and-time-warp]

"The level of radioactive pollution, and most importantly the area of contamination, will be thousands of square kilometres of land and sea… it would be much, much worse than Fukushima and worse than Chernobyl."

WE NEED TO STEP UP. This is not Ukraine’s problem: it’s the WORLD’S problem.

[jeintalu]

Update 252 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine | IAEA

I read the following information:

In Ukraine, there is an epidemic of rabies.

Ukraine shelled and damaged the last high voltage power line supplying the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). IAEA does not accuse Ukraine but it is evident that it is not Russia shelling itself.

Some drones of Russia were flying too close to other Ukrainian nuclear plants, but without attacking these power plants.

[yaoi-reading]

Several days ago our president gave an interview to the American podcaster. And during the interview podcaster asked when will Russians and Ukrainians will be able to marry each other.

This is Zaporizhzhya. This is what fucking RUSSIAN TERROSISTS do to our people, to our cities. And the fucking west can’t wait to close their eyes on the atrocities that russia commits on the daily basis. No news, no headline. As a Ukrainian you have a feeling that everyone are just waiting for you to collapse and fucking die and stop preventing everyone doing business as usual with russians.

I just can’t

[stop-war-ukraine]

The body of Yevgeny Matveyev, the mayor of the city of Dniprorudne in Zaporizhzhia, who was tortured in captivity, was returned - OVA.

The Russians seized the settlement at the end of February 2022, and later took its leader Matveyev prisoner. The Russians held the official for 2 years and 8 months and tortured him. The body was returned to Ukraine during the last exchange.

Yevgeny Serhiyevich was a true patriot, not indifferent to the fate of his country and his community. Always worked with people and for people, listened and helped everyone who needed it. He was strong-willed and principled. During the occupation, he did not leave the city or the people, he did everything to ensure the life of the community, constantly informed the population about and supported.

[kamogryadeshi]

This is what a shopping center in Kryvyi Rig looks like after a Russian missile attack

In Kharkiv, Russians hit industrial facilities, said the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov.

In Zaporizhzhya, Russian missiles hit residential areas - open areas and near houses. As a result of the missile attack, 2 people were injured.

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Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

[mariacallous]

Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has expressed doubts about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's ability to deliver a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine in a pessimistic interview with Politico published on Nov. 27.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is in no mood to strike a deal.

“Putin still believes he can snuff out Ukrainian statehood and crush Ukraine as an independent democracy, and he thinks he’s one step away from exposing the West as weak,” he said.

“Ukraine is a personal obsession for Putin, but crushing Ukraine is also a means to accomplish his grand goal — to show to the world how the West is incapable of defending itself or what it stands for.”

An agreement that would include concessions from Ukraine, including territorial ones, would not work, because Putin is not interested in diplomacy and “is just trying to exhaust the West, believing that he can get everything he wants.”

Kuleba also stressed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would not sign any agreement that included the transfer of occupied Crimea, the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, and other territories to Russia.

“The Russians keep the Donbas, they keep Crimea, no NATO membership. Can Zelenskyy sign? He cannot because of the Constitution. And because it will be the end of Zelenskyy politically.”

He warned that if Trump stops the supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, the front line in Donbas could collapse, placing Ukraine in great danger.

“The Russians will be at the gates of Dnipro, Poltava and Zaporizhzhya, That will be the most dangerous moment for Ukraine in this war,” Kuleba said, questioning whether Europe would be able to compensate for the loss or reduction of US support.

“The big unknown is how the European Union is going to behave. Europeans will have two choices. They can either pursue a wait-and-see strategy or follow Trump’s lead, or they accept the fact that they have to bear greater share of responsibility.”

This follows an analysis of statements by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin on Nov. 26 that suggest the Kremlin aims to seize more territories in Ukraine and is unwilling to engage in genuine negotiations with Kyiv.

[warriormale]

Ukrainian troops fire at Russian positions in the southeastern Zaporizhzhya region. (Reuters)

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On June 6, 2023, around 2:30 a.m., the russian occupiers blew up the dam of the Kakhov reservoir.

This terrorist act created a mortal danger for Ukrainian citizens in the settlements on both banks of the Dnieper below the Kakhovsky Reservoir. This is an undeniable act of ecocide and an obvious war crime, the impact of which goes far beyond the borders of Ukraine and affects the ecosystem of the entire Black Sea region.

Also, this crime increases the threat of a nuclear disaster, since the capacity of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant's cooling ponds depends on the water level in the Dnieper.

According to the Geneva Convention (Article 56 of Additional Protocol I 1977), actions to destroy dams are a war crime and can be equated to the use of weapons of mass destruction.