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  • At the center of all concerns due to bombings of which both Russians and Ukrainians accuse each other, the Zaporozhye power plant was "totally disconnected" from the network on Thursday after damage to the power lines caused by fires, announced the company of Ukrainian State Energoatom.

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the same day a decree ordering to increase by 10% (+ 137,000 soldiers) the number of soldiers in the army, in the midst of an offensive against Ukraine and against a backdrop of growing tensions with the countries Westerners.

  • Ukraine on Thursday denounced the Russian bombardment of a train station which, according to it, caused the death of at least 25 civilians the day before, Moscow claiming for its part that it had targeted a military train and killed more than 200 soldiers.

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07:17: Zaporozhye power plant disconnected

The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, in the occupied zone in southern Ukraine, was "disconnected" from the Ukrainian network on Thursday, according to kyiv.

The IAEA said it was "informed by Ukraine" of this loss of connection.

“But [the plant] is currently running,” she stressed, confirming that it “stays connected” from “the neighboring thermal plant which can provide emergency electricity”.

American diplomacy warned Thursday that any Russian attempt to divert nuclear energy from Ukraine would be “unacceptable”.

7:11 am: The village of Tchapliné in shock after a deadly Russian strike

"It's such a pity for this boy, such a pity," said Viktor, a resident of the Ukrainian village of Chapliné, whose little neighbor was killed by a Russian bombardment in his house.

Several Russian missiles fell on Wednesday afternoon on this town of 4,000 people, a railway junction in the Dnipropetrovsk region (center-east), killing 25 people including two children and 31 injured, according to the latest report announced Thursday by the presidency.

"An 11-year-old boy was killed under the rubble, another six-year-old died in a burnt-out car near the station," Deputy Head of the Presidency Kyrylo Tymoshenko said on Telegram.

07:05: In Mykolaiv, the theater comes back to life in an underground shelter

It's the hustle and bustle of the premiere days at the Mykolaiv Drama Theater in Ukraine: we played there again on Thursday for the first time since the start of the war, in an underground shelter, to escape the bombs that affect the city daily.

According to the town hall, Mykolaiv has known only 25 days of calm since February 24, which made President Volodymyr Zelensky say that it is with Kharkiv (north) and the cities of Donbass (east) "the most bombarded in 'Ukraine' while the front line extends to only twenty kilometers.

Hello everyone! Welcome to this new live dedicated to the war in Ukraine.

Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 Minutes is mobilized to give you the latest information on the conflict.

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