Russia accuses Ukraine of firing 20 missiles near the Zaporizhia nuclear plant
Putin attends large-scale military exercises with the participation of China and other countries
Putin follows up the "Vostok-2022" maneuvers.
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Russian Navy personnel push a helicopter aboard the Marshal Shaposhnikov during maneuvers.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attended large-scale military exercises with the participation of several countries, including China, while the Russian Defense Ministry announced yesterday that Ukraine fired 20 artillery shells at the town of Enerhodar and the area around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, during the past 24 hours.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin held a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov, at the Sergeevsky Military Square, and attended large-scale military exercises yesterday, in which China and several other countries participate.
The "Vostok-2022" maneuvers were launched on September 1, and are scheduled to continue to this day in various locations in the Russian Far East and off the coast of eastern Russia. More than 50,000 soldiers and 5,000 units of military equipment, including 140 aircraft, are participating in the exercises. and 60 ships.
The participating countries include a number of countries neighboring Russia, in addition to Syria, India and China, and the last maneuvers of this kind were organized in 2018.
In addition, Director of the European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Belyaev, announced yesterday that Russia's response to threats to join Sweden and Finland in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization "NATO" will depend on the deployment of foreign bases and offensive weapons there.
"The process of ratification of applications submitted by Stockholm and Helsinki for membership in (NATO) by NATO member states has not yet been completed," Belyaev told the Russian "Sputnik" news agency.
Accordingly, the exact form of their integration into the Alliance is unclear, primarily in terms of the deployment of foreign military bases, military infrastructure and offensive weapons systems on Finnish and Swedish territories,” adding: “The degree of threats to Russia will depend on the next wave of expansion ( NATO), and actual response actions on our part, on this factor.”
Regarding Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said that some shells fell on the territory of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, and one of them exploded near the electricity unit No. 2, noting that the radiation levels at the plant, which is the largest nuclear facility in Europe, are still normal.
The governor of the city of Kharkiv, Oleh Senhopov, said that three people were killed as a result of rocket fire in the area, including an elderly woman, who died last night.
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, is located near the Russian border and has been under constant bombardment since the Russian war.
A warning of air strikes was issued across Ukraine yesterday morning, and the authorities reported explosions in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ukrainian statistics showed that the Russian army lost more than 50,000 soldiers during the war in Ukraine, which began more than six months ago.
The Ukrainian General Staff said in a statement that the Ukrainian army destroyed 2,077 tanks, 4,484 armored vehicles, 236 aircraft and 207 helicopters, but there is no independent confirmation of this data.
Russia has reaped €158 billion in revenue from fuel exports in the six months since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, benefiting from higher prices, according to a report by an independent think tank published yesterday, which called for more effective sanctions.
The report of the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), based in Finland, stated that "the rise in fossil fuel prices means that Russia's current revenues are much higher than those of previous years."
Gas prices rose to historic levels in Europe, and oil prices rose at the beginning of the war, before falling recently.
The report's authors said that "exports of fossil fuels contributed about 43 billion euros to the Russian federal budget."
For its part, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the United States was the one who provoked the gas supply crisis in Europe, by pushing European leaders towards what it described as a "suicidal step" by stopping economic and energy cooperation with Moscow.
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1 billion euros in Russia's fuel revenues since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
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