• Ukraine Night war in the skies over Kiev

After 15 months since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russia denounces that a Ukrainian drone has caused a fire in an oil refinery in the south of the country. In addition, shelling hit a Russian town near the border for the third time in a week, damaging buildings and vehicles.

A day after Russia accused Ukraine of sending drones to attack buildings in Moscow, the governor of Russia's Krasnodar region said a drone was the likely cause of the fire at the Afipsky oil refinery.

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian artillery hit wounded at least one person in the Russian town of Shebekino, about 7 kilometers north of the border with Ukraine's Kharkiv region.

On the other hand, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) set out five major principles that both Ukraine and Russia must respect to ensure the safety of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, which is in an "extremely fragile and dangerous" situation.

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Attack on refinery in southern Russia

The governor of Russia's Krasnodar region said a Ukrainian drone had set a fire at the Afipsky oil refinery in southern Russia. The fire was soon extinguished and there were no casualties, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on the Telegram messaging app.

The Afipsky refinery is not far from the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, near another refinery that has been attacked several times this month.

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Four injured in Russia, near the border

Ukrainian forces shelled a Russian town near the border for the third time in a week, wounding four people, damaging buildings and torching vehicles, the region's governor said Wednesday.

Two people were hospitalized as a result of the artillery attack on Shebekino, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on the Telegram messaging app.

The shelling shattered windows and damaged the roofs of an eight-story apartment building, four homes and a school, he said.

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7.00

IAEA Sets Out Five Principles to Avert Disaster at Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on Tuesday that it set five major principles that both Ukraine and Russia must respect to ensure the safety of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, the largest in Europe and currently in the hands of the Russian Army.

This was communicated by the head of the IAEA, the Argentine Rafael Grossi, to the UN Security Council, before which he warned again that the situation in Zaporizhia is "extremely fragile and dangerous."

Those principles, according to Grossi, are as follows: do not launch any type of attack against the plant, that it is not used to store heavy weapons or troops with offensive capacity, that the electricity supply to the facility is not put at risk, that all its structures, systems and essential components are protected and that nothing is done to undermine these commitments.

As he explained, the experts that the IAEA has deployed at the plant to ensure its safety will be responsible for monitoring compliance with these principles and the agency will make public any violations.

"These principles are to the detriment of no one and benefit everyone. Avoiding a nuclear accident is possible. Complying with the five principles of the IAEA is the way to start," said Grossi, who said he held consultations with Ukrainian and Russian authorities for its drafting.

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