MAP. War in Ukraine: Putin-Erdogan meeting, strikes in Zaporijjia… The point on the 163rd day – Ouest-France

Ukraine accused Russia this Friday, August 5, 2022 of strikes near a nuclear reactor at the Zaporizhia power plant in the south of the country. Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron have not had a telephone interview for two months. Conversely, the Russian president met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visiting Sochi in Russia, to discuss in particular the conflict on Ukrainian territory. On this map, you can observe the progress of the fighting and the current front lines on Ukrainian territory: The situation in Ukraine on August 5, 2022. | INFOGRAPHIC WEST-FRANCE Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of strikes near the Zaporijjia power plant “Three strikes were reported on Friday evening near one of the nuclear reactors, announced on Telegram the Ukrainian state company Energoatom, which manages the country’s nuclear power plants. There are risks of hydrogen leakage and spraying of radioactive substances. The danger of fire is high”, according to the same source which did not report any victims at first. The Zaporijjia plant, in the south of the country, has been under Russian occupation since the start of the war. In the evening,
Russia on Friday rejected its responsibility for the strikes, accusing in turn the regime of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of “nuclear terrorism”. “Ukrainian armed formations carried out three artillery strikes against the territory of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and the city of Energodar,” the Russian army said in a statement, calling on “international organizations to condemn the actions of the Zelensky regime which carries out acts of nuclear terrorism”. For his part, the Ukrainian president declared that Russia must “bear responsibility for the act of terror” at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhya. “Today the occupiers created another extremely risky situation for all of Europe: they twice struck the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest on our continent,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily video address. “Volatile and dangerous” situation The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Tuesday that the situation was “volatile” at the Zaporizhia power plant and was becoming “more and more dangerous day by day”. When the plant was taken over in March, the Russian military had opened fire on buildings on the site, posing the risk of a major nuclear accident. A meeting between Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the strength of his recent diplomatic success on grain exports, met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi, on the Black Sea. In this context, he was seeking, among the many other issues discussed with the Russian leader, to obtain the opening of negotiations, if possible in Istanbul, with a view to a truce between the belligerents in Ukraine. “I hope we can sign a memorandum today on strengthening our economic and trade ties,” Vladimir Putin said at the start of the meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, broadcast on Russian television. The master of the Kremlin thanked the Turkish president for his efforts which made it possible to find an agreement between Moscow and Ukraine on the deliveries of Ukrainian cereals from Ukrainian ports. “France is no longer a friendly country”, according to the Kremlin Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron have not had a telephone conversation for two months. According to the Kremlin, France is an “unfriendly” country with which discussions are not currently “necessary”.

This was explained on Friday, August 5, by Dmitri Peskov, spokesperson for the Kremlin, in response to a question about the absence of a recent telephone exchange between the two leaders, who had spoken to each other several times at the beginning of the year. Three new shipments of cereals left Ukraine Three new shipments of cereals, crucial for world food security, left Ukraine this Friday morning as a report by the NGO Amnesty International, denounced by President Volodymyr Zelensky, accuses kyiv of endangering the lives of civilians in the war with Russia. The ship carrying the first shipment of grain exported by Ukraine since the February 24 Russian invasion will arrive in the Lebanese port of Tripoli on Sunday, official sources said on Friday.

A curfew in Mykolaiv to neutralize the “collaborators” of the Russians The governor of the Mykolaiv region, in the south of Ukraine and constantly bombarded, announced a curfew in the regional capital until Monday morning in order to neutralize the “collaborators” of the Russians. “I have signed a curfew decree which will be in place from 11 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday,” Governor Vitali Kim announced in a video address on his Telegram channel. He had already promised in July a bonus of 100 dollars for information making it possible to identify those who “reveal to the occupiers the places of deployment of the Ukrainian troops” or who help them to establish the coordinates of the potential targets of bombardments. “Honest people have nothing to fear. Have your papers with you just in case. You can walk your dog not far from your house, the children can play in the courtyard of their building, but try to stay at home, ”he said. Mykolaiv has seen heavy shelling last week, probably “the strongest” since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, according to the city’s mayor, Oleksandr Senkevych. chevron_leftchevron_right