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  • The International Atomic Energy Agency mission visited the Zaporozhye power plant on Thursday.

    According to its general manager, the physical integrity of the plant "has been violated on several occasions".

    The International Atomic Energy Agency also then plans to “establish a continuous presence” there, repeated its boss.

  • On the same day, the Ukrainian authorities assured that Russia was carrying out artillery fire on Energodar, the city where the Zaporizhia atomic complex is located, and on the road that the IAEA inspectors had to take to get there. .

    For their part, the Russians claimed that the Ukrainians had sent “two groups of saboteurs” there during the night.

  • In its evening report, the Ukrainian army general staff mentioned "massive shelling" in the vicinity of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, located in the northeast, of Zaporizhia, in the south, as well as Kramatorsk, Bakhmout and Sloviansk in the east.

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7:25 a.m.: The ICRC warns of a “catastrophic” attack

In the Ukrainian capital, the director general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for his part called for the interruption of all military operations around these installations, warning that an attack would be “catastrophic”.

"The slightest miscalculation could cause havoc that we would regret for decades," warned Robert Mardini.

One of the two reactors in operation at the plant has in this regard been stopped due to Russian strikes, the Ukrainian operator Energoatom regretted on Thursday.

7:19 am: Zelensky advocates demilitarization

In his daily evening message, the Ukrainian head of state felt that the IAEA should have gone further and insisted on the need, according to him, to “demilitarize” this area.

“The main thing that should happen is the demilitarization of the territory of the plant (…) And it is regrettable that we have not yet heard the appropriate messages from the IAEA”, thus released Volodymyr Zelensky.

7:12 am: The IAEA will establish a “continuous presence” at the plant

“We were able to visit the whole site.

I was in the (reactor) units, I saw the emergency system and other rooms, the control rooms,” said IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, while praising the Ukrainian staff still present at the plant which fell into the hands of Russian soldiers in March.

"We have a lot of work here", in these installations that the Russians and the Ukrainians mutually accuse each other of having bombed on numerous occasions, the International Atomic Energy Agency thus intends to "establish a continuous presence" at this place, repeated his boss.

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IAEA chief Rafael Grossi vows they will continue their visit to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine despite the strike on the town next to the facility.

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7:05 a.m .: Zaporozhye's physical integrity has been "violated"

The “physical integrity” of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye occupied by the Russians “has been violated on several occasions”, denounced Thursday, after having inspected it, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, while President Volodymyr Zelensky reproached the IAEA for having concealed the question of the “demilitarization” of this site.

"We have no elements to assess this", but "it is something that cannot continue to happen", added Rafael Grossi, who is also at the head of a mission of experts whose , he pointed out, many will remain until "Sunday or Monday" on the spot.

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.

All eyes are still on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, where an IAEA mission was able to investigate on Thursday.

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

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