Ukraine-Russia war latest: Fire at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant contained after explosions

A Russian missile strike on town of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine injured at the least seven individuals and destroyed or broken dozens of properties and civilian infrastructure buildings, the regional governor stated on Sunday.

Two of the injured have been hospitalised on account of the late Saturday assault, Mykolaiv Governor Vitaliy Kim stated on the Telegram messaging app.

Kim posted images displaying single residential buildings virtually destroyed, with constructing particles unfold round. He stated 23 personal properties, 12 condominium buildings and a put up workplace have been broken.

Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the report. There was no speedy remark from Russia concerning the assault. Either side deny focusing on civilians within the battle that Moscow launched with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022.

Ukraine’s air pressure stated on Telegram that Russia had launched 76 assault drones and 7 missiles focusing on Ukraine in a single day, putting eight areas all through Ukraine. Ukraine’s air defence items destroyed 60 of the drones and one missile, it stated.

• Russia launched a missile assault on Kyiv early on Sunday, the army administration of the Ukrainian capital stated on the Telegram messaging app. Witnesses heard a loud blast shaking town quickly after midnight.
• A fireplace that broke out close to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant after Ukrainian shelling has been introduced beneath management, the Russian-installed administration of the Russia-held plant in Ukraine stated on Saturday. A civilian was killed however no plant staff or members of the emergency providers had been injured and radiation ranges remained regular.
• Ukraine on Saturday stated it struck army targets and a gasoline pipeline in drone assaults on Russian territory. Russian authorities reported that the strikes sparked fires, killing three individuals and wounding two others.
• Ukraine’s anti-corruption our bodies stated it uncovered a significant graft scheme that procured army drones and sign jamming methods at inflated costs, two days after the companies’ independence was restored following main protests.

Greater than 120 firefighters have been making an attempt to extinguish a hearth at an oil depot within the Russian metropolis of Sochi that was sparked by an Ukrainian drone assault, regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev stated early on Sunday on the Telegram messaging app.

Rosaviatsia, Russia’s civil aviation authority, stated on Telegram that flights have been halted on the metropolis’s airport to make sure air security.

Ukraine’s European allies praised Volodymyr Zelensky’s transfer to revive independence of Ukraine’s anti-graft investigators and prosecutors, after having voiced considerations concerning the authentic stripping of the companies’ standing.

Prime European officers had advised Mr Zelensky that Ukraine was jeopardising its bid for European Union membership by curbing the powers of its anti-graft authorities.

“It is crucial that anti-corruption establishments function independently, and the legislation adopted on Thursday ensures them each alternative for an actual struggle in opposition to corruption,” Mr Zelensky wrote on Saturday after assembly the heads of the companies, who briefed him on the most recent investigation.

Ukraine’s anti-corruption our bodies stated on Saturday they’d uncovered a significant graft scheme that procured army drones and sign jamming methods at inflated costs, two days after the companies’ independence was restored following main protests.

The independence of Ukraine’s anti-graft investigators and prosecutors, NABU and SAPO, was reinstated by parliament on Thursday after a transfer to take it away resulted within the nation’s largest demonstrations since Russia’s invasion in 2022.

In a press release revealed by each companies on social media, NABU and SAPO stated they’d caught a sitting lawmaker, two native officers and an unspecified variety of nationwide guard personnel taking bribes. None of them have been recognized within the assertion.

“The essence of the scheme was to conclude state contracts with provider firms at intentionally inflated costs,” it stated, including that the offenders had obtained kickbacks of as much as 30 per cent of a contract’s price. 4 individuals had been arrested.

“There can solely be zero tolerance for corruption, clear teamwork to show corruption and, because of this, a simply sentence,” president Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram.

Mr Zelensky, who has far-reaching wartime presidential powers and nonetheless enjoys broad approval amongst Ukrainians, was pressured right into a uncommon political about-face when his try and carry NABU and SAPO beneath the management of his prosecutor-general sparked the primary nationwide protests of the battle.

He subsequently stated that he had heard the individuals’s anger, and submitted a invoice restoring the companies’ former independence, which was voted by way of by parliament on Thursday.

Russian air defence items destroyed about 15 Ukrainian drones over Voronezh, the governor, Alexander Gusev, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

The in a single day assault resulted in a number of properties and utility buildings catching hearth from falling drone particles and a girl was injured, the governor of the southern Russian area stated on Sunday.

“The specter of additional drone assaults stays,” Mr Gusev stated within the put up early on Sunday.

Either side deny focusing on civilians of their strike within the battle that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022.

Kyiv says that its assaults inside Russia are aimed toward destroying infrastructure key to Moscow’s battle efforts and are in response to Russia’s relentless strikes on Ukraine.

The Russian defence ministry stated that its items destroyed 41 drones simply earlier than midnight on Saturday over Russian areas bordering Ukraine and over the waters of the Black Sea.

A Ukrainian drone strike reportedly injured a girl and sparked a number of fires in Russia’s southern Voronezh area, the native governor stated right now.

In the meantime, Russia launched a missile assault on Kyiv, based on the Ukrainian capital’s army administration.

Russia fired a missile at Kyiv early right now, town’s army administration stated on Telegram.

Reuters witnesses described a loud explosion that shook the capital shortly after midnight.

The strike comes simply days after Russia carried out its deadliest aerial assault on Kyiv this 12 months, which left at the least 31 individuals lifeless, together with 5 youngsters, and wounded greater than 150.

Vladimir Putin shouldn’t be prepared for severe negotiations on peace in Ukraine, UK international secretary David Lammy has stated in an interview with The Guardian.

“My sober evaluation is that Putin shouldn’t be prepared to noticeably negotiate,” Mr Lammy advised the outlet.

“He nonetheless has maximalist and imperialist ambitions. The battle Ukraine has fought, with UK, European and American assist, is immense.”

The international secretary additionally spoke of his admiration of the Ukrainian individuals.

“Even when the world left them behind, they’d nonetheless be waging a guerrilla battle, such is their perception of their nation. It’s deeply inspiring,” he stated.

A fireplace that broke out close to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant after Ukrainian shelling has been introduced beneath management, the Russian-installed administration of the Russia-held plant in Ukraine stated on Saturday.

Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia plant within the first weeks of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Either side have accused one another of firing or taking different actions that would set off a nuclear accident.

The plant’s administration stated on Telegram {that a} civilian had been killed within the shelling, however that no plant staff or members of the emergency providers had been injured.

The station, Europe’s largest nuclear energy plant, shouldn’t be working however nonetheless requires energy to maintain its nuclear gasoline cool.

The plant’s Russia-installed administration stated radiation ranges remained inside regular ranges and the scenario was beneath management.