• 6:04 a.m.: IAEA chief expected at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi is expected Wednesday at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, occupied by Russian forces and whose security the international community fears.

Rafael Grossi and his delegation are due to arrive at the site in the morning and leave in the afternoon, according to the Tass news agency, citing an official of the Russian operator Rosenergoatom. This is Rafael Grossi's second visit to Zaporizhzhia, Europe's largest nuclear power plant, since the conflict began in February 2022.

  • 4:34 a.m.: Russia begins military exercises with intercontinental ballistic missiles

The strategic rocket forces of the Russian Federation have begun military exercises, which include Iars-type intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

"In total, more than 3,000 military personnel will participate in these exercises and nearly 300 pieces of equipment will be included," the ministry said in a statement on Telegram.

  • 0:14 a.m.: Putin's announcement of deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus is 'dangerous,' Biden blasts

Joe Biden said Tuesday that the announcement by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of a deployment of "tactical" nuclear weapons in Belarus was "dangerous". "These are dangerous words and it is worrying," said the US president at the White House to reporters.

"These are dangerous words and it is worrying," said the US president at the White House to reporter.

Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Moscow would deploy "tactical" nuclear weapons on the territory of its ally, Belarus, located at the gates of the European Union.

The announcement came more than a year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which borders both Russia and Belarus, and whose army has so far managed to counter the advance of Moscow's forces.

  • The essentials of the day of March 28

The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday recommended the reinstatement of Russian and Belarusian athletes in international competitions, but will decide "at the appropriate time" whether to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics. For his part, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy Dmytro Kuleba demanded that Moscow withdraw from "every square meter" of Ukraine, stressing that there could be no peace with Russia "at any price".

In France, the National Assembly recognized as genocide the Holodomor, the famine caused in the early 1930s in Ukraine by the Soviet authorities, causing the death of several million people.

With AFP and Reuters

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