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The Latest Breaking News from Zaporizhzhia

Ukrainians flee occupied territories through Russian 'filtration' checks

As Ukrainian counter-offensives gather momentum to win back the city of Kherson, inhabitants in some Russian-occupied territories have been advised to leave. Russian forces are letting them out, but only if they pass time-consuming and stressful checks known as "filtration". FRANCE 24’s correspondents met some of them.

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Russia accused of waging war out of working nuclear power plant in Ukraine

Russian forces have reportedly been using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, near Nikopol in southern Ukraine, as a base to launch attacks, ramping up security concerns in surrounding areas.

France 24

Russia speaks of expanding Ukraine mission despite realities on the ground

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this week that Moscow is expanding its military aims in Ukraine beyond the eastern Donbas region. But the Russian military has been experiencing difficulties on the ground, prompting many to wonder whether it is realistic for the Kremlin to expand the scope of its…

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Along Ukraine front, the villagers who didn't leave are ghosts in the wasteland

Most people have long since left the village of Mala Tokmachka, in Ukrainian-held territory a couple of kilometres from the frontline in southern Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region.

Reuters

Russia sends combine harvesters to occupied regions of Ukraine

Russia has sent combine harvesters from Crimea to two Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine to cover a shortage of equipment needed to bring in the crop, a representative of a Russian-installed local administration said.

Reuters

Putin's "annexation playbook" in Ukraine could leave no path to peace

"The risk appetite of this guy is very different from the risk appetite of Joe Biden."

Axios

Russian occupation official says Ukrainian drone struck nuclear plant but caused no damage

The Russian-installed administration in the partially occupied Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia said on Wednesday that Ukraine had conducted a drone strike on a nuclear power station there, but the reactor was undamaged.

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Ukrainian Farmers Rush to Harvest Grain from Fields Near Frontline

A plume of smoke rises from a burning field in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, an increasingly common sight across swathes of farmland in the south and east of the country that borders a frontline stretching more than 1,000 km (620 miles). In nearby fields, farmers are racing to harvest crops before…

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Ukrainian farmers rush to harvest grain from fields near frontline

Reuters

EU Mulls Sanctions as Russia Accused of Shelling Ukraine from Nuclear Plant

The European Union will discuss tightening sanctions against Russia on Monday, as Moscow is accused of using the continent's largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and launch missiles on the surrounding regions of southern Ukraine. The situation at the captured Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is "extremely tense", Ukraine's atomic energy…

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Ukrainian Officials Accuse Russia of Shelling From Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant

Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of using a captured nuclear power plant as a place to store and launch weapons. As Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukrainian cities, air-raid sirens sounded in Kyiv on Saturday. Overnight explosions made for a tense night in Ukraine, where cities have recently come…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia accused of shelling from Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine

The president of the Ukrainian nuclear agency said on Friday that Russian forces are using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine as a base for storing and launching weapons. Russia’s defence ministry said Saturday that its forces destroyed a Ukrainian factory in the city of Dnipro that produced…

France 24

Moscow proxies in southern Ukraine aim for September vote on joining Russia

Russian-installed officials in a region of Ukraine partly under Moscow's control are aiming to stage a referendum on joining Russia in September, the RIA Novosti news agency reported, citing a local official.

Reuters

‘True hell’: Ukraine reports more civilian casualties after heavy Russian strikes in east and south

Kyiv urges residents in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to evacuate as it prepares for ‘massive fight’

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UN says both sides share blame for nursing home attack; Russian shelling reported in east – as it happened

Ruling on an attack on a nursing home early in the conflict, UN says no war crimes committed but both sides partially responsible

Reuters

Russian-held part of south Ukraine aims to sell grain to Middle East - TASS

Russian-installed authorities in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, partly under Russian control, said on Tuesday that an agreement had been reached to sell grain abroad, mainly to the Middle East, Russian state news agency TASS said.

Reuters

Ukraine says link restored to Zaporizhzhia nuclear station

Ukraine's nuclear power operator said on Friday it had re-established its connection to surveillance systems at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest, which is occupied by Russian forces.

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IAEA loses transmission from Ukraine's Russian-held nuclear power plant

The U.N. atomic watchdog said on Wednesday it had again lost its connection to its surveillance systems keeping track of nuclear material at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Europe's largest, which the watchdog wants to inspect.

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IAEA voices concern for staff at Ukrainian nuclear plant, demands access

The U.N. nuclear watchdog is increasingly concerned about the welfare of Ukrainian staff at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Europe's largest, it said on Friday, adding that it must go there as soon as possible.

Daily Mirror

Fearless Ukrainian women determined to fight Russian invaders with machine guns

Ukrainian fighter experts have created a programme in Zaporizhzhia in the south east of the war ravaged country to teach civilian women how to use powerful automatic guns

Daily Mirror

Russian helicopter blasted by Ukrainian missile before crashing in huge fireball

The Russian chopper burst into a ball of flames after being struck by a Ukrainian missile in an area just inside the region of Donetsk, on the border with Zaporizhzhia

Reuters

Ukraine restores internet link between occupied nuclear plant and IAEA, says Energoatom

Ukraine's state nuclear firm Energoatom said on Saturday it had helped restore an internet connection between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the servers of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is occupied by Russian forces.

Bangkok Post

The Mariupol diary: Ukraine war through 8-year-old eyes

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine: The horrors of the bloodiest chapter so far in the Ukraine conflict are poignantly captured in the words and drawings of an eight-year-old boy.

Evening Standard

Putin likens himself to Peter the Great as Russian troops resume offensive

Vladimir Putin has likened his invasion of Ukraine to Peter The Great’s invasion of Sweden as Russian troops resume their offensive in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region.

The Guardian - AU

Ukrainian troops plead for more artillery to offset Russia’s firepower in Sievierodonetsk – as it happened

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