EXTRAORDINARY ONLINE Explosions rocked the north of occupied Crimea: They hit an army ammunition warehouse and a substation – Topky.sk

Live from Ukraine 173rd day of fighting in Ukraine ONLINE Load new news 8:25 The north of the occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea was rocked by explosions this morning, Russian news agencies reported. According to the TASS agency, a former farmhouse, which the army used as an ammunition depot, exploded. The RIA Novosti agency, citing local authorities, reported on an explosion that caused a fire at a transformer station in the town of Dzhankoy. The causes of the explosions and other details are not yet known. 8:05 a.m. A nuclear disaster in the Russian-occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in the south of Ukraine would threaten the whole of Europe. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this in his regular video address on Tuesday night. TASR took over the report from the AFP agency. “Any incident related to radiation at the Zaporizhia Atomic Power Plant can affect the countries of the European Union, Turkey, Georgia, and even more distant states. It depends only on the speed and direction of the wind,” Zelensky said. Photo gallery (4) Source: SITA/Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP 7:15 Finland, at Monday’s summit with other Nordic countries and Germany in Oslo, Norway, pushed for a ban on the entry of Russian tourists into the European Union. The press agency DPA informed about it. However, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz once again spoke out against the ban on Russians entering the EU, citing citizens fleeing the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo gallery (4) Olaf Scholz
Source: SITA/AP Photo/Markus Schreiber 6:35 a.m. Russian forces shelled Kharkiv’s Kiev district early in the morning, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported on Telegram. No casualties were reported at the time of publication. The NEXTA portal reported about it on the social network. 6:25 The UN denies Russia’s accusations of blocking the IAEA’s visit to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. Russian officials have accused the UN secretariat of preventing the International Atomic Energy Agency from visiting the plant, said Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for the UN secretary-general. He informed about it on the social network The Kyiv Independent. 06:10 The inspection route of the delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant must not pass through Kyiv, as it would expose the members of the mission to danger when crossing the front line. According to the TASS agency, leading Russian diplomat Igor Vishnevetskiy stated this today. Shelling has been reported from the power plant in recent days, for which both Ukraine and Russia accuse each other. The IAEA warned of a possible disaster. Ukraine has defused more than 180,000 explosive devices since the beginning of the war More than 180,000 explosive devices have been discovered and defused by Ukrainian demining units since the beginning of the Russian military invasion at the end of February, the government in Kyiv announced on Monday. TASR took over the message from CNN. The Deputy Minister of the Interior of Ukraine, Yevheny Yenin, specified for Ukrainian television that “one fifth of the territory of Ukraine was contaminated by grenades, mines and aerial bombs that did not explode”. “Since the beginning of the war, our services have discovered and neutralized more than 180,000 explosive devices. More than 68,000 hectares have already been examined,” Jenin said. According to him, the technicians will examine approximately 500 hectares of the area in a week. “In the Kyiv region, they are still disarming 100 explosive objects a day,” noted the Deputy Minister of the Interior of Ukraine, according to CNN. EXTRAORDINARY ONLINE The north of occupied Crimea was rocked by explosions: They hit an army ammunition warehouse and a substation