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  • United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is due to meet Ukrainian Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Lviv, western Ukraine, on Thursday, almost six months after its invasion by Russia.

  • On the ground, the fighting continues and causes new civilian victims, such as in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, where according to the country's authorities a missile hit a three-storey residential building on Wednesday during a Russian bombardment causing "a powerful fire and killing at least seven people.

  • Beijing will send troops to Russia to participate in joint military exercises at the end of the month, in order to "deepen cooperation" between the two armies, announced the Chinese Ministry of Defense.

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7:21 am: The specter of a nuclear disaster

On Wednesday, NATO called for an urgent "inspection" by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (south), the target of several strikes of which the two belligerents accuse each other, raising fears a nuclear disaster.

"It is urgent to authorize an inspection by the IAEA", judged its secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, who also called for the "withdrawal of all Russian forces" from the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, which they control. since early March.

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian public operator of nuclear power plants Energoatom denounced an “unprecedented” Russian cyberattack against its online site, stating that its operation had not been disrupted.

The Russian group "People's Cyberarmy" had used 7.25 million Internet robots which attacked the Energoatom site for three hours, the Ukrainian company had assured, but without "considerable impact".

7:12 am: At least seven dead in Kharkiv

Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, was hit by a missile on Wednesday.

A three-storey residential building suffered "a powerful fire" after this Russian bombardment.

"At this stage, there are seven dead and seventeen wounded," said Igor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv, revising upwards the previous toll of six dead and sixteen wounded.

Volodymyr Zelensky had earlier denounced a “despicable and cynical attack”.

Located about forty kilometers from the Russian border, Kharkiv is regularly shelled by the Russian army but it has never managed to seize it.

Hundreds of civilians were killed in this region, according to the authorities.

7:00 am: Guterres and Erdogan on their way to Ukraine

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is due to meet Ukrainian Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Lviv, western Ukraine, on Thursday, almost six months after its invasion by Russia.

The three men will discuss the recent agreement on the export of Ukrainian cereals but also “the need for a political solution to this conflict,” said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

"I have no doubt that the issue of the [Zaporozhye] nuclear power plant and others will also be discussed."

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This Thursday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are expected in Lviv where they are to meet Volodymyr Zelensky.

On the ground, the country's second city, Kharkiv, was the target of bombardments on Wednesday that left at least seven people dead. 

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