Russia announced that it had bombed with missiles and artillery targets in dozens of places in eastern Ukraine and took control of a town in the city of Kharkiv, while Kyiv said it had isolated about 20,000 Russian soldiers in Kherson.

On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the attacks it launched were concentrated in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, and that the town of Udi in the neighboring Kharkiv region was captured.

For its part, the Ukrainian General Staff reported that intense attacks took place in the east and south of the country.

She noted that in the Donetsk region, an attempt by Russian forces to penetrate Sloviansk was repelled.

Ukrainian forces have launched a counter-attack on the Russian forces in the south and east of the country for weeks (European)

Meanwhile, the leadership in Chechnya said it would send new troops as well as "volunteers" to fight in Ukraine.

In a video allegedly from the airport of the Chechen capital Grozny, uniformed men were ordered to "destroy" Ukrainian nationalists.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov announced several times since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine that fighters loyal to him would participate in the battles in support of Moscow, asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to surrender and apologize to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian soldiers isolated

For his part, Sergey Khelan, Deputy Governor of Kherson Province, confirmed that the Russian forces that crossed the Dnipro River in the city of Kherson may remain stuck in the area after bombing all its bridges.

In statements to Ukrainian television, Khellan estimated the number of Russian soldiers on the right bank of the river at about 20,000, noting that they can still cross the damaged bridges on foot, or by using floating boards near the Antonevsky Bridge.

Ukrainian forces followed the strategy of destroying bridges to repel the Russian attack in a number of cities and regions (Getty Images)

The Ukrainian official revealed that Russia is moving command centers from the right bank of the Dnipro River to the left bank, because it realizes that it may not be able to evacuate the site in the necessary time when the fighting escalates, as he put it.

The Russian forces had taken control of the city of Kherson and parts of its countryside, as well as parts of the nearby Zaporozhye province at the beginning of the war that Russia started on February 24.

For weeks, the Ukrainian army has launched a counter-attack in Kherson, and confirms that it has regained parts of the province, and now controls the Russian supply routes with fire in the region.

collective claim

And on the developments of the Zaporozhye nuclear plant in Ukraine, dozens of countries along with the European Union demanded the immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from the station.

"The stationing of Russian military personnel and Russian weapons at the nuclear facility is unacceptable," the statement said.

"The deployment of Russian military personnel and weapons at the nuclear facility is unacceptable and disregards the principles of safety, security and safeguards that all members of the International Atomic Energy Agency are obligated to respect," the group said in a joint statement.


The application was submitted on behalf of the European Union as well as the United States, Britain, Norway, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and many other countries.

"We urge the Russian Federation to immediately withdraw its military forces and all other unauthorized personnel from the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, its immediate surroundings and all over Ukraine so that the operator and the Ukrainian authorities can resume their sovereign responsibilities within the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine," the statement added.

"This will also enable the IAEA to carry out verification in accordance with Ukraine's safeguards obligations under safe, secure and timely conditions," the statement continued.

The Zaporozhye facility is located in the city of Enerhodar, southeastern Ukraine, on the bank of the Dnipro River. It consists of 6 pressurized water reactors and stores nuclear waste.

It is noteworthy that Russia and Ukraine have exchanged accusations for the days of bombing the station, with calls from the United Nations and other parties to neutralize it from the war.

The first ship to Africa

The first cargo ship chartered by the United Nations left the port of Bivdnyi in southern Ukraine on Sunday, carrying wheat for Africa, according to the governor of the Odessa region, Maxim Marchenko.

The United Nations World Food Program had chartered the freighter Brave Commander, which the United Nations said was carrying 23,000 tons of wheat bound for Ethiopia.

The United Nations and Turkey brokered deals at the end of July to allow Ukraine to resume grain exports through its Black Sea ports despite the war with Russia.

Since the beginning of August, more than a dozen Ukrainian cargo ships have transported grain outside the country.

However, the first shipments were commercial.

The United Nations fears food shortages and hunger in poorer parts of the world if Ukraine does not resume its traditional role as a major supplier of grain.

The ships and their cargo are inspected while passing through the Turkish Bosphorus Strait, according to the agreement.