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This Monday, August 8, the fate of the nuclear power plant in the Zaporozhye region crystallizes tensions.
Russia and Ukraine pass the buck over the bombing of Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
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news of the day
Moscow on Monday accused Ukrainian forces of bombing Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Zaporozhye, held by the Russian army.
The two belligerents have accused each other since Friday of bombing this power plant located in southern Ukraine and which fell into the hands of Russian soldiers in early March, without any independent source being able to confirm.
The bombardment of the Zaporozhye site "by the Ukrainian armed forces" is "potentially extremely dangerous" and "could have catastrophic consequences for a vast area, including for European territory", warned on Monday the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov.
For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted in his daily video by accusing Moscow: “There is not a single nation in the world that can feel safe when a terrorist state bombs a nuclear power plant.
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The number of the day
8.
This is the number of ships loaded with grain that have left Ukraine since the beginning of August.
The last ship loaded with 60,000 tons of cereals left this Monday, for the first time since the beginning of the war, Pivdenny, one of the three Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea.
“Over the next two weeks, we expect to reach a rate of three to five ships per day,” said the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure.
These rotations follow an agreement concluded between Ukraine and Russia on July 22 to allow the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports despite the war.
sentence of the day
“If we allow a big country to bully a smaller one, just invade it and take its territory, then it will be hunting season, not only in Europe but all over the world.
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These are the words used on Monday by Antony Blinken, according to Reuters.
The agency also reported that the head of the American diplomacy said that Washington considered it essential to stand up to Russia because its aggression against Ukraine threatened the fundamental principles of the world system.
The trend of the day
Tensions are crystallizing in the Zaporozhye region, occupied territory in southern Ukraine controlled by the Russians.
Yevgeny Balitsky, head of the civil and military administration set up in this region, declared that he had "signed an order for the Central Electoral Commission to start working on the organization of a referendum on the attachment of the Zaporozhye region to Russia.
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An initiative to which the Ukrainian president intends to respond.
Sunday evening, he took advantage of his traditional speech to warn Russia.
By organizing these referendums, "they will be closing themselves off from any possibility of negotiations with Ukraine and the free world, which they will certainly need at some point", he assured.
And, on Twitter, Volodymyr Zelensky's adviser judged that "each new step towards a pseudo-referendum in the occupied territories must result in the sending of additional weapons" for Ukraine.
For him, Russia "is testing the ability of the world to 'accept' annexation and it sees no resistance".
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