Cover image: Ukrainian soldiers on their way to Bakhmout, eastern Ukraine, March 22, 2023. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP
- The nuclear safety of the Ukrainian power plant in Zaporizhia (south-east) is in a “precarious state”, warned on Wednesday March 22 the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, in a press release. According to the organization, the “last emergency power line” of the plant, damaged since 1is march, rest “disconnected and in repair”. However, it allows it as a last resort to ensure nuclear safety and security, in particular by cooling its reactors.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited near Bakhmout on Wednesday, epicenter of the front and symbol of Ukrainian resistance in the east of the country. He promised a military victory over Russia “terrorist”the day after a call for peace launched without convincing from Moscow by the Chinese head of state Xi Jinping.
- Russia on Wednesday launched 21 Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 combat drones against Ukraine. The operation began shortly before midnight, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, said the Ukrainian air force, which claims to have shot down 16.
- Eight people died and seven others were injured in Rzhyshchiv, about 80 kilometers south of kyiv, during a drone raid that hit a vocational high school overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, according to a Facebook post from the Ukrainian emergency services.
- In another strike, at least one person was killed and 34 others injured, including three children, according to the emergency services, when “two Russian missiles” crashed into an apartment building in Zaporizhia, in the Center East, according to a latest report from the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior.
- Russia, for its part, has assured that it has “repelled” Wednesday an attack of marine drones on Sevastopol, the home port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, in southern Crimea.
- China does not at this stage “crossed the line” to deliver weapons of war to Russia, assured Wednesday the United States, which had warned Beijing on this subject.
- In The Hague, the legislative body of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday denounced « menaces » from Russia against members of the ICC after it issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin for the war crime of “deportation” of Ukrainian children.
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