• 5:27 a.m .: Ukrainian authorities hope for continued evacuations in Mariupol

 "On May 2, the evacuation in Mariupol begins at 7 a.m. Collection point - 'Port City' shopping center", announced on Telegram Pavlo Kirilenko, regional governor of Donetsk, on the night of Sunday to Monday.

  • 4:51 a.m .: Russia not aiming for end of war on May 9, says S. Lavrov

Russia is not seeking to end the war in Ukraine on May 9, celebrated as Victory Day, its foreign minister said, as analysts believed a possible end to the conflict on that date.

"Our military will not artificially adjust their actions to any date, including Victory Day," Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Italian TV Mediaset broadcast on Sunday, referring to the date commemorating May 9, 1945 and the surrender of the Nazis to the Allies, including the Soviet Union.

“The pace of the operation in Ukraine depends, above all, on the need to minimize possible risks for the civilian population and the Russian military,” he added.

  • 3:26 a.m .: EU energy ministers crisis meeting on Russian gas

The energy ministers of the countries of the European Union are holding an emergency meeting on Monday with the aim of agreeing on a common position in the face of Russia's request to be paid in rubles for its gas deliveries under bother to interrupt them.

  • 2:12 a.m.: Explosions in a Russian town near Ukraine

Two explosions occurred in the early hours of Monday in Belgorod, a city in southern Russia near Ukraine, the region's governor said on social media.

"There were no casualties or damage," wrote Vyacheslav Gladkov.

  • 1:19 a.m.: “Everything is fine!”

    Russians open the doors of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant

An administrative building is charred, but those of the reactors seem intact: AFP was able to visit the Zaporijjia nuclear power plant on Sunday, the largest in Ukraine and Europe.

Moscow forces took control in early March of this plant located in the city of Energodar (written Enerhodar, in Ukrainian) in southern Ukraine, separated by the waters of the Dnieper from the regional capital Zaporizhia, under Ukrainian control .

The clashes that took place there raised fears within the international community of a nuclear disaster similar to that which occurred in 1986 in Chernobyl.

During a press trip organized by the Russian army, AFP was able to observe the damage: the facade of a vast administrative building which served as a training center for the personnel of the plant is blackened by the flames and many windows are shattered.

But no trace of shooting or bombardment was visible on the six cubes surmounted by a red dome containing the reactors which began to be built in the 1980s.

With AFP and Reuters

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