Ukraine, Kiev: “Russia prepares a retreat from Kherson”

Russia is preparing a retreat from Kherson. This is what the Ukrainian army claims. “This is why they sank nine wagons near the Khakovka hydroelectric power plant to build a passage”, the Kiev General Staff said on Facebook, also reporting the death of 180 Russian soldiers in the bombing of one of their bases in the buildings of the ‘Alkoservis’ company. 10 last September. “For five days, the Russian National Guard unit and the Federal Security Service recovered bodies from the rubble, trying to hide the losses,” they say. Read also The inhabitants of Kherson also say they heard four explosions and a high column of black smoke, coming from the Petrovskyi factory, one of the Russian occupying bases. Russian forces today bombed structures in about thirty towns and villages . The Ukrainian general staff wrote on Facebook, quoted by Ukrinform. In detail, there were four missile attacks, fifteen air strikes and over twenty attacks with multiple missile launchers against civilian and military infrastructures. NATO – NATO is ready to support Ukraine against the Russian invasion, Admiral Rob Bauer, president of the NATO military committee, “as long as it is needed”. Winter is coming, but our support will stand still. “” The ammunition, equipment and training provided by the allies and other nations are making a difference on the battlefield, “Bauer said. The admiral wanted also point out how the Ukrainians, “with their successes on the ground and online, have fundamentally changed modern warfare.” Ukrainians have been very creative in using the weapons provided to them, “they have used them in ways that we normally do not. We use “, he said. The NATO military committee brings together the chiefs of staff of the 30 member countries. At the center of its two-day meeting in Tallinn is the implementation of the decisions taken at the Madrid summit in late June. For the first Once there are present, as guests, the chiefs of staff of Sweden and Finland, whose request for admission to the Atlantic Alliance has been accepted but has yet to be ratified by the parliaments of all member states. AND SPECIAL – The Czech Republic, current EU president, calls for the establishment of a special international tribunal for war crimes in Ukraine. The request is made by Prime Minister Jan Lipavsky after the discovery of mass graves in Izium. “I call for the swift establishment of a special international tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression. Russia leaves behind mass graves of hundreds of people killed and tortured in the Izium area. In the 21st century, these attacks on the civilian population are unthinkable. and abominable. We must not ignore them. We want the punishment of all war criminals, “Lipavsky tweeted. ZAPORIZHZHIA CENTRAL – After two weeks of outage, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is again receiving electricity from the Ukrainian national grid, after one of the four external lines, all damaged by the conflict, was repaired. All the six reactors of the plant, the largest in Europe, have been shut down, but electricity is needed to maintain the necessary safety functions. , notes the IAEA. The area of ​​the plant has been occupied by Russian forces since 4 March.