War in Ukraine LIVE: This Wednesday, Ukrainian National Day, kyiv fears "brutal strikes" from Russia...

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• Ukraine celebrates its independence from the USSR in 1991 on August 24. This Wednesday also marks a semester of war, which has left tens of thousands dead and caused immense destruction in the country.

• With this symbolic date, the tension is at its maximum in kyiv.

  “We must be aware that tomorrow (Wednesday) disgusting Russian provocations and brutal strikes are possible,” Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Tuesday evening.

• Russia and Ukraine both say they are ready to allow a team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to the site of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, but the mission still could not be programmed.

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6:53 am: Explosions in Kharkiv

In the early hours of August 24, explosions sounded in several cities, such as Kharkiv (northeast), Zaporozhye and Dnipro (center), according to local authorities.

On Tuesday morning, the United States Embassy in kyiv also broadcast an alarmist message warning that Russia could bomb Ukraine even more "in the coming days" and recommended that American citizens leave the country "now".

6:40 am: kyiv on alert

The tension is at its maximum in kyiv.

Chance of the calendar, the national holiday comes this Wednesday six months after the launch of the Russian invasion.

“We must be aware that tomorrow (Wednesday) disgusting Russian provocations and brutal strikes are possible,” Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Tuesday evening.

“We will of course respond to any manifestation of Russian terrorism,” added the Ukrainian president, who had already argued last Saturday that “Russia could strive to do something particularly disgusting, particularly cruel”.

6:38 a.m.: National holiday in Ukraine

Ukraine celebrates its independence from the USSR in 1991 on August 24, a date also marking a semester of war, which left tens of thousands dead and caused immense destruction in this country.

In this macabre context, "to celebrate" is not really the right verb, especially since many inhabitants will be confined: the authorities of kyiv have banned all public gatherings from Monday to Thursday in the capital, and the governor of the Kharkiv region has for its part ordered a curfew from Tuesday evening to Thursday morning.

6:35 am: kyiv and Moscow accuse each other about Zaporozhye

Russia and Ukraine again accused each other at a Security Council meeting on Tuesday of endangering the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, while the UN General Secretariat called on them to cease all military activity around the site.

"Ukrainian armed forces continue almost every day to bombard the territory of the nuclear power plant, creating a real risk of a radioactive accident with catastrophic consequences for the European continent as a whole", launched the Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, who had requested this Council meeting.

"No one can imagine that Ukraine would target a nuclear power plant creating a huge risk of nuclear disaster on its own territory," replied Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya.

"Once again (Russia) has the audacity to convene a meeting of the Security Council to discuss its own provocations and its own terrorist actions", he added, estimating that it had "lost an hour listening to a slew of imaginary statements”.

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