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  • Russian forces occupying the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye are preparing to connect it to Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, and are damaging it by carrying out this reorientation of electricity production, the Ukrainian operator, Energoatom, warned on Tuesday. .

  • Russia launched an Iranian observation satellite from Kazakhstan on Tuesday which, according to the American press, could be used by Moscow to support its offensive in Ukraine, which Tehran refutes.

  • Explosions that left one dead and injured occurred on Tuesday at an ammunition depot on the site of a military airfield on Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia, which has stopped its oil deliveries via Ukraine.

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    7:11 a.m .: Russia launches Iranian satellite to “surveil the borders”

    Russia launched an Iranian observation satellite from Kazakhstan on Tuesday which, according to the American press, could be used by Moscow to support its offensive in Ukraine, which Tehran refutes.

    The Khayyam remote sensing satellite was launched by a Soyuz rocket from the Russian Baikonur cosmodrome at 7:52 a.m. (French time), according to images broadcast live by the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

    The satellite, named in honor of the Persian poet and scholar Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), was then placed into orbit.

    Its main purpose is to "monitor the country's borders", improve agricultural productivity, control water resources and natural disasters, according to the Iranian Space Agency.

    7:00 a.m.: The Russians will connect the Zaporozhye power plant to Crimea

    Russian forces occupying the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye are preparing to connect it to Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, and are damaging it by carrying out this reorientation of electricity production, the Ukrainian operator, Energoatom, warned on Tuesday. .

    “The Russian military present in the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant are implementing the program of (the Russian operator) Rosatom aimed at connecting the plant to the Crimean electricity networks,” Energoatom President Petro Kotin told television. Ukrainian.

    “To do this, you must first damage the power lines of the plant connected to the Ukrainian energy system.

    From August 7 to 9, the Russians have already damaged three power lines.

    At the moment, the plant is operating with a single production line, which is an extremely dangerous way of working,” he added.

    “When the last production line is disconnected, the plant will be powered by generators running on diesel.

    Everything will then depend on their reliability and fuel stocks, ”also warned Petro Kotin.

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    The Russian army wants to connect the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye to Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014. A dangerous operation that worries kyiv. 

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