Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 165 of the invasion
UN nuclear watchdog warns Zaporizhzhia plant was shelled of danger; UK intelligence predicts war on the horizon
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The UN nuclear watchdog has called for an immediate end to all military action near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after it was hit by shelling, causing one of the reactors to shut down and creating a “very real risk of a nuclear disaster”. Rafael Mariano Grossi was the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director general. said he was “extremely concerned” by reports of damage as Zelenskiy accused Russia of using the plant “for terror”.
Russia’s war on Ukraine is about to enter a new phaseAccording to British intelligence, “The heaviest fighting [will shift] to a roughly 350km frontline stretching south-west from near Zaporizhzhia to Kherson, paralleling the Dnieper river,” the UK Ministry of Defence said.
Russia is building troops in the Ukraine’s south, but the purpose isn’t yet knownUK intelligence has warned. The Ministry of Defence said Russian forces could be prepping for an attack, or simply anticipating a counter-offensive by Ukraine. Ukrainian forces are focusing their targeting on bridges, ammunition depots, and rail links to affect Russia’s ability to logistically resupply in Ukraine’s southern regions, the ministry added.
Saturday saw the arrival of a foreign-flagged vessel in Ukraine for the first time since February war.To be loaded with grain. Oleksandr Kubrakov is the Ukrainian infrastructure minister said the Barbados-flagged general cargo ship Fulmar S was in the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk and Ukraine planned to “reach the level of at least three to five vessels per day in two weeks’ [time]”.
Horrific photos and video appear to prove it. New atrocity: remains of a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war The man was pinned to a pole in front of a house in Popasna in eastern Ukraine. This house was taken by Russian forces in May. It is near the Donbas’ current frontline. “There is nothing human about the Russians. We are at war with non-humans,” said Serhiy Haidai, the Ukrainian governor for Luhansk Province, is pictured here.
The head of Amnesty International’s Ukraine office has quit the human rights body in a disagreement after the group accused Ukraine’s armed forces of endangering civilians by basing troops in residential areas. Amnesty’s Ukraine head Oksana Pokalchuk said that she was resigning as she opposed the report’s publication, saying the human rights group unwittingly “created material that sounded like support for Russian narratives of the invasion”.
Dozens upon dozens of Ukrainian soldiers were burned to death inside a Russian detention centre outside Donetsk, while many others face torture under a regime of “absolute evil”, a former prisoner has said. Anna Vorosheva, a 45-year-old Ukrainian entrepreneur, was trying to deliver humanitarian supplies to Mariupol when she was arrested and held on charges of “terrorism”.
An EU plan to reduce Russia’s gas use and aid Germany in reducing its dependence on Russia will be implemented by the European Union early next week, the bloc’s presidency has said. Last week, EU member countries agreed to cut their gas consumption by 15% in winter. There were exceptions for certain countries and against the opposition of Hungary.
Reports say that a Russian journalist was detained at the border because she is suspected of spying., Kosovo’s interior minister said Saturday. Xhelal Skecla identified the journalist as Daria Aslamova. “Many countries have proven that she was engaged in espionage for Russian military intelligence and that she pretended to be a journalist,” Svecla said.
In an attempt at assassination, a Kherson official belonging to the Russian occupying government was seriously injured on SaturdayMoscow-backed local officials said. Vitaly Gur “is in hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, in a critical state”, an unnamed official told Russian state news agency Tass.
Meta, formerly known as Facebook has deleted an Instagram network operated by a St Petersburg, Russia-based troll farming operation. 45 Facebook accounts and 1 027 Instagram accounts were closed after it was discovered that $1,400 in rubles had been used to pay for advertisements on Facebook and Instagram.
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Source: The Guardian