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  • An IAEA mission is due to go to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant on Thursday, where it wants a "permanent" presence to avoid a possible disaster.

  • Ukraine has called on Russian forces to stop firing on the road leading to the plant.

    In Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Defense symmetrically accused the Ukrainian military of “provocations” aimed at “disrupting the work of the IAEA mission”.

  • According to statements Tuesday evening by Volodymyr Zelensky, on the ground "fighting is currently taking place practically on the entire front line: in the South, in the Kharkiv region (North-East) and in Donbass (East)".

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6:50 am: Moscow does not punish Tokyo on energy

The Russian government has authorized two Japanese firms to keep their shares in Sakhalin-2, an oil and gas project in the Russian Far East which Japan did not want to give up, although it participates in the sanctions against Moscow linked to the war in Ukraine.

A Russian government decree on Wednesday authorized Mitsubishi Corp to transfer its former 10% stake in Sakhalin-2 to a new entity created unilaterally by Moscow in July.

A day earlier, Moscow made a similar move for Mitsui & Co, which retains its former 12.5% ​​stake in the project.

6:45 a.m.: IAEA experts expected at the Zaporozhye power plant

A mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected this Thursday at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe.

The team of 14 people arrived Wednesday in the city of the same name, about 50 kilometers as the crow flies from this complex occupied since the beginning of March by the Russians and the subject of serious concern from the international community.

"We will try to establish a permanent presence of the agency", announced the director general of the IAEA, Rafaelo Grossi - a scenario not mentioned until then.

“It is a mission which seeks to avoid a nuclear accident”, he underlined, specifying that the experts were going to spend “a few days” on the spot and that they had received security guarantees from the Russian authorities. and Ukrainians.

6:39 am: Macron will set the course for diplomacy

Emmanuel Macron presents this Thursday to the French ambassadors gathered in Paris the course of diplomacy in an international context of acute crises, in the forefront of which the war in Ukraine.

The "conference of ambassadors", an annual meeting which could not take place for two years due to Covid-19, is also being held at a time when many French diplomats are questioning their profession following a controversial reform of the civil service, against which they observed a one-day strike at the beginning of the summer, an extremely rare event in a muffled and little protesting ministry.

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.

On this first day of September, all eyes will be on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, where an IAEA mission is expected.

kyiv and Moscow have been accusing each other for weeks of endangering the security of the site.

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