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  • Nearly 4.5 million people in Ukraine were without electricity overnight from Thursday to Friday due to Russian strikes against the country's infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelensky denouncing "energy terror".

  • The "obvious" conclusion by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) represents "clear and irrefutable evidence" of the absence of any preparations for a "dirty bomb" in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr said on Thursday. Zelensky.

  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives in Beijing on Friday for a highly controversial visit amid growing Western defiance of China's authoritarian regime.

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7:29 a.m .: Cereal exports have resumed

Grain exports from Ukrainian ports resumed on Thursday, after Russia returned to the humanitarian corridor agreement, with the G7 pledging to prevent Moscow from "starving" and "death of cold” Ukrainians this winter.

At midday, "seven cargo ships carrying a total of 290,102 tons of grain and agricultural products" transited through the humanitarian corridor "under the Initiative for Ukrainian Grain in the Black Sea", confirmed the delegation of the to the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) in Istanbul, responsible for supervising its application.

Ukrainian food exports reached ten million tonnes on Thursday thanks to this international agreement, welcomed UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, calling for the renewal of this Initiative which "reduces the risk of hunger" in the world.

07:22: IAEA presents "irrefutable evidence" of the absence of a "dirty bomb" in Ukraine

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that it had detected "no sign of undeclared nuclear activities" in three places inspected at the request of kyiv.

These conclusions are "clear and irrefutable proof" of the absence of any preparations for the manufacture of a "dirty bomb" in Ukraine, accused by Moscow of manufacturing one, reacted Volodymyr Zelensky.

“We gave full freedom of action” to the IAEA inspection mission and after its conclusion, “we have clear and irrefutable evidence that no one in Ukraine has created or is in the process of manufacturing “dirty bombs””, he launched in his daily address.


07:15: Russian strikes deprive 4.5 million people of electricity

Nearly 4.5 million people in Ukraine were without electricity overnight from Thursday to Friday due to Russian strikes against the country's infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelensky denouncing "energy terror".

“Tonight alone, around 4.5 million consumers have been temporarily disconnected” in Kyiv and ten other regions across the country, Volodymyr Zelensky pointed out in his evening address.

The Russians "cannot defeat Ukraine on the battlefield, that's why they are trying to break our people" by indulging in "energy terror", he charged.

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Hello everyone.

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

This Friday, nearly 4.5 million people are without electricity in Ukraine after Russian strikes against the country's infrastructure.

President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced this situation, accusing Moscow of "energy terror".

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