Russia launched its "military operation" in Ukraine on Thursday, February 24.
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Vladimir Putin repeated that an agreement will have to be found with Ukraine “in the end”, saying he was “ready for these arrangements” and “open.
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Ukraine accuses Russia of detaining two employees of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
On Thursday, "the Russian army broke into the premises where the Department of Social Programs of the plant is located and, in the presence of other employees, violently beat the head of the department, Oleksiy Trubenkov, and his deputy, Yuriy Androsov “Lamented Energoatom in a press release.
"After this violent beating", the Russians "brought them out and took them in an unknown direction", denounced the nuclear operator.
The plant's nuclear safety officer, Konstantin Beiner, was also "thrown into the basement", according to Energoatom, but is not being held by Russian forces.
The Ukrainian nuclear operator accused the Moscow soldiers, who have occupied the site since early March, of "running wild and turning into real policemen and jailers", "intensifying the repression" of the employees.
This is not the first time that kyiv has accused Moscow of harassing Ukrainian personnel at the site of Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
At the end of September, its managing director was arrested by Russian forces, before being released a few days later.
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In the end, an agreement will have to be found.
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Vladimir Putin believes that an agreement will be necessary “in the end” to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
"I have already said several times that we are ready for these arrangements, we are open, but this forces us to think about who we are dealing with," added the Russian president, on the sidelines of a regional summit in Kyrgyzstan.
Vladimir Putin reacted to recent remarks by Angela Merkel.
"This obviously raises the question of trust," Vladimir Putin also commented.
And trust is almost at zero and after such statements the question is of course: How to find an agreement?
And can we get along with someone?
And with what guarantees?
“Maybe we should have started all this earlier (the offensive in Ukraine).
But we were in fact counting on the possibility of finding an agreement within the framework of the Minsk agreements, ”he added.
The number of the day
8.5.
This is the number of years in prison that activist Ilia Yachine received for criticizing the military offensive against Ukraine.
The charismatic 39-year-old opponent greeted the verdict with a laugh.
He was found guilty of spreading "false information" about the army for denouncing the "murder of civilians" in the Ukrainian town of Boutcha, near kyiv, where Russia is accused of abuses, which she denies.
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“Another shameful and illegal verdict by (Vladimir) Putin will not silence Ilia and should not intimidate honest people in Russia,” reacted opponent Alexei Navalny in a message published by his supporters on social networks.
He also said he was "proud" of Ilia Iachine, who "will survive everything".
The trend of the day
American basketball player Brittney Griner landed in Texas on Friday morning after being released from a Russian prison in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout, according to images from CNN and Fox News.
Brittney Griner, 32, who was arrested in Russia in February on drug trafficking charges, and Viktor Bout, 55, who was serving a 25-year sentence in a US prison, were swapped at an airport in 'Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
The basketball player, who was to be transferred to a military facility to recover, is in "good spirits," White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told MSNBC on Friday.
“We will give her access to all the health professionals she needs to make sure she is well,” he added.
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