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War in Ukraine: everything you need to know about the conflict

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December 13th – Tuesday

• A leader from the Ukrainian region of Kherson, occupied by Russia, was injured in the explosion of the vehicle in which he was traveling, news agencies reported on Monday (12), citing authorities installed by Moscow. (AFP)
• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, asked the G7 countries to deliver more weapons and to supply gas to Ukraine, which is facing the arrival of winter with an infrastructure badly affected by Russian attacks. (AFP)

December 12th – Monday

• The President of the United States, Joe Biden, spoke yesterday (11) with the head of state of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to whom he reaffirmed Washington's vehement support for his country and celebrated Kiev's “openness to a just peace”. , announced the White House. (AFP)
• At least two people were killed and five injured in Russian airstrikes in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, its governor said on Sunday (11). (AFP)

December 09th – Friday

• Ukraine accused Russia this Friday (9) of detaining two employees of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant (south), occupied by Moscow, after “violently beating them”. (AFP)

December 08th – Thursday

• Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Wednesday (7) an increase in nuclear tension, although he insisted that he will not be the first to use this type of weapon in the conflict with Ukraine. (AFP)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin assured this Thursday (8) that his country will continue to bomb Ukrainian energy infrastructures, in response to attacks attributed to Kiev on the annexed peninsula of Crimea. (AFP)

December 07th – Wednesday

• President Volodymyr Zelensky visited on Tuesday (6) a town in eastern Ukraine near Bakhmut where Kiev forces have been fighting a battle against Russian troops for months. (AFP)
• A Russian army truck and a civilian minibus collided in an area of ​​eastern Ukraine under Moscow's control, an accident that left at least 16 dead and four injured, local authorities said on Wednesday. (AFP)

December 06th – Tuesday

• Ukraine was trying this Tuesday (6) to restore electricity service after the latest Russian attacks, which caused blackouts across the country, at a time of intense cold. (AFP)

December 05th – Monday

• More than 500 Ukrainian locations remained without electricity on Sunday (4), following Russian bombings in recent weeks that affected the country's energy infrastructure, the Interior Ministry reported. (AFP)
• The cap on the price of Russian oil decided by Western powers will have no impact on Moscow's offensive in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Monday (5). (AFP)
• Two Russian air bases, located in the center of the country, were the target of Ukrainian drone attacks this Monday (5), which left three dead – the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement. (AFP)

December 02th – Friday

• Up to 13.000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the Russian invasion began in February, an aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky said. (AFP)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin told the German head of government, Olaf Scholz, this Friday (2), that Russia's massive attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure are “necessary and inevitable” and denounced the “destructive” stance. of the West in supporting the Ukrainian government. (AFP)
• The Kremlin rejected, this Friday (2), the conditions presented by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, for a dialogue with the head of state of Russia, Vladimir Putin, on Ukraine and insisted that Moscow will continue with its offensive. (AFP)

December 01th – Thursday

• Almost half of Ukraine's electricity grid remains out of service this Thursday (1st), a week after the latest Russian bombings against infrastructure in the sector – reported operator DTEK, which highlighted employees' efforts to complete repairs. (AFP)

November 29th – Tuesday

• As the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony approaches, the head of one of the organizations awarded the honor called on Monday (28) for the international community to supply weapons to Ukraine to help the country defend itself and end with the atrocities. (AFP)
• The war in Ukraine has increased the risk of the use of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons – warned on Monday (28) the president of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Fernando Arias. (AFP)
• Russia expressed its “indignation” at Pope Francis’ statements, in which he classified the Russian ethnic minorities who participate in the military intervention in Ukraine as “cruel” – several news agencies reported this Tuesday (29). (AFP)
• NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned this Tuesday (29) that Russia intends to use winter as a “weapon of war”, at the start of a meeting of the military alliance that intends to intensify aid to Ukraine to recover its electrical grid devastated. (AFP)

November 28th – Monday

• Ukrainian authorities said on Monday (28) that they foresee a new wave of bombings by Russia this week, following attacks on critical infrastructure that caused water and electricity cuts, including in the capital Kiev. (AFP)

November 24th – Thursday

• Russia continued, on Wednesday (23), the strategy of bombing Ukraine's infrastructure, causing cuts in the supply of water and electricity to several cities, and said it was confident in the “success” of its offensive, despite the setbacks suffered. in nine months of war. (AFP)
• The three Ukrainian nuclear plants under Kiev's control were reconnected to the electricity grid after a cut on Wednesday caused by Russian bombings, the Energy Ministry said on Thursday. (AFP) 

November 23th – Wednesday 

• The plenary of the European Parliament approved, this Wednesday (23), a resolution that classifies Russia as a “country promoting terrorism” for its war against Ukraine, and asked the 27 countries of the bloc to follow this recognition. (AFP) 

• At least three civilians, including a newborn, died in new Russian bombings in Ukraine, which led Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski to accuse Moscow of causing “terror” in his country. (AFP)
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Tuesday (22) that Russia is trying to use cold winter temperatures as a “weapon of mass destruction” by bombing energy infrastructure. (AFP)

November 22th – Tuesday

• The lives of millions of Ukrainians are in danger this winter, after Russia bombed the country's energy infrastructure, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday (21). (AFP)
• The Ukrainian Public Prosecutor's Office stated, this Monday (21), that it discovered four “torture sites” used by the Russians while they occupied Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine recovered by Kiev forces on November 11. (AFP)

November 21th – Monday

• Russia and Ukraine exchanged accusations on Sunday (20) about bombings against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is located in the south of Ukrainian territory and is under the control of the Russian army. (AFP) 
• The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) denounced, on Sunday (20), “deliberate and selective” attacks against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and called for an end to what he called “madness”, of which Russia and Ukraine accuse each other. mutually. (AFP) 

November 19th – Saturday

• The new British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, makes his first visit to Kiev this Saturday (19) since being appointed to the post to reaffirm support for Ukraine in the war with Russia, the governments of both countries announced. The UK “knows what it means to fight for freedom,” Sunak wrote on Twitter. “We are with you along the way.” (AFP)
• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, dismissed this Friday (18) the idea of ​​a “short truce” with Russia, saying that this would only make things worse. “A genuine, lasting and honest peace can only be the result of a complete cessation of Russian aggression,” said the Russian president. (AFP)

November 18th – Friday

• Russia said this Friday (18) that it expects a prisoner exchange with the United States that would include Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, detained by American authorities. (AFP)
• More than 10 million Ukrainians are deprived of electricity after a new wave of Russian bombings, just as winter begins to ravage a population exhausted by almost nine months of war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday ( 17). (AFP)
• Russia announced, this Friday (18), that it had begun work to strengthen the annexed peninsula of Crimea after the withdrawal of its soldiers from the neighboring Ukrainian region of Kherson, in the face of Kiev's counteroffensive. (AFP)
• Ukraine announced, this Friday (18), the reopening of the train line between the country's capital, Kiev, and Kherson, a week after the withdrawal of the Russian Army from this important city in the south of the country. (AFP)

November 17th – Thursday

• Russia's attacks on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure constitute a campaign of "terror" and "war crimes" following complete failure on the battlefield, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said. this Wednesday (16). (AFP)
• Oil prices fell this Wednesday (16), reversing what happened on Tuesday after the news of the crash of a missile in Poland that was attributed to Ukraine's anti-aircraft defense against Russian attacks. (AFP)
• Russia is “fully responsible” for the crash of a missile in Poland, which killed two people on Tuesday (15), said this Thursday (17) the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, after a telephone conversation with the American Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. (AFP)
• Russia carried out this Thursday (17) a new wave of attacks in several regions of Ukraine, where the first snowfalls were recorded amid electricity cuts caused by bombings by Moscow troops. (AFP)

November 16th – Wednesday

• 'Without a doubt, the missile that hit Poland was not Ukrainian'. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said he was convinced that the missile that fell in Poland and killed two people on Tuesday night (15) was not Ukrainian. (The Guardian*)
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Poland (which is part of that organization) stated that the explosion, in a Polish village near the border with Ukraine, was probably due to a missile launched by Kiev's air defense to attempt to counteract Russia's actions. Moscow has denied involvement. (AFP)
• US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin suggested on Wednesday that Russia was ultimately responsible for a deadly explosion in Poland, which he said happened when Moscow forces attacked civilians. and infrastructure in Ukraine. (AFP)
• Poland, a NATO country, put its military on alert on Tuesday (15), after its territory was hit by a “Russian-made missile”, something that threatens to trigger a dangerous escalation in Europe. (AFP)
• Russia said on Wednesday that the missile that hit Polish territory on Tuesday was a projectile fired by a defense system of Kiev's forces and assured that its attacks closest to the border between Ukraine and Poland took place more than 35 km from the limit. (AFP)
• The Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday denied having attacked Kiev on Tuesday (15) and stated that the damage in the Ukrainian capital was caused by Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense. (AFP)

November 15 (Tuesday)

• In the G20, Zelensky says he is convinced that 'this is the moment when the war can and must be stopped'. The president of the Ucrania calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops and a peace agreement that includes the release of all prisoners. (G1)

Pentagon investigates Russian missile crash in Poland; country is a member of NATO

Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said the US Department of Defense is aware of unconfirmed reports that Russian missiles struck Poland and killed two people. The country is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

November 14th – Monday

• A 23-year-old Zambian student convicted in Russia and detained in a prison on the outskirts of Moscow was found dead in action in Ukraine, the Ukrainian government announced this Monday (14). (AFP)
• The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visited, this Monday (14), Kherson, a strategic city in the south of the country recovered after several months of Russian occupation, a source from his office told AFP. (AFP)
• Russian troops committed “the same atrocities” in the Kherson region, recently liberated by Kiev, as in other parts occupied by Moscow in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky denounced on Sunday (13). (AFP)

War in Ukraine shows impact of armies on climate

The war in Ukraine brought to debate the issue of greenhouse gas emissions from armies, the calculation of which is very difficult to assess, experts explain at COP27. Scientists estimate that these emissions amount to between 1% and 5% of the global total, according to a report published earlier this month in the scientific journal Nature.

November 12th – Saturday

• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba said this Saturday (12) that “the war continues”, following his country's success in recapturing the southern city of Kherson from Russian hands. (AFP)
• Ukrainian troops reconquered, this Friday (11), the city of Kherson, in the south of the country, and claimed an “important victory” against Russia, which withdrew its forces from the only region it had occupied in almost nine months of fighting. . (AFP)
• Senior UN officials and Russia's deputy foreign minister began discussions this Friday (11) about obstacles to exports of Russian fertilizers and cereals, shortly before the expiration of a crucial agreement to fight the food crisis. Dialogues ended without major progress. (AFP)

November 11th – Friday

• The United States will provide air defense systems and surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine as part of a new security assistance package valued at $400 million, the Pentagon announced on Thursday (10). (AFP)
• Ukraine claimed, on Thursday (10), the recovery of more than 40 locations in the south of the country, where Russian troops began a withdrawal from the province of Kherson, considered a new setback for President Vladimir Putin. (AFP)
• At least five people were killed and several were injured in a missile attack on a residential building in the city of Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, on Thursday night, regional authorities announced on Friday (11). (AFP)
• Russia said on Friday (11) that it had completed the withdrawal of its troops from the west bank of the Dnieper River, after Moscow announced that it had made the “difficult decision” to retreat.

November 10th – Thursday

• More than 100.000 Russian soldiers have died or been injured since the invasion of Ukraine began, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said on Wednesday, estimating similar casualties for Ukrainian forces. (AFP)
• Ukraine reacted with skepticism to the announcement that Russia will withdraw troops from the city of Kherson, with an appeal to continue resistance until the liberation of all occupied locations. (AFP)

November 09th – Wednesday

• Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the withdrawal of his troops from the Ukrainian city of Kherson, in the south of the country, this Wednesday (9), in the face of a vast Ukrainian counteroffensive.
• The President of Ukraine said this Tuesday (8) that Russia wanted to press its advance in the east of the country beyond the Donetsk region, but Ukrainian forces would not give up “a single centimeter”. (CNN)
• Actor Sean Penn, who cannot enter Russia for criticizing the war in Ukraine, lent his Oscar statuette to the Ukrainian president during a visit to Kiev this Tuesday (8). (UOL)

November 08th – Tuesday

• Ukraine received, this Monday (7), new Western anti-aircraft defense systems to neutralize Russia's massive bombings, which have caused cuts in water and electricity supplies, just weeks before winter, in the northern hemisphere. (AFP)
• North Korea rejected, on Tuesday (8), accusations from the United States that Pyongyang supplies weapons to Russia for its war in Ukraine, calling them “unfounded”, according to the state agency KCNA. (AFP) 
• Electricity returned to the city of Kherson, which is in the south of Ukraine and controlled by Russian troops, after two days of blackout, one of the main names in the occupation government, Kirill Stremousov, announced on Tuesday. (AFP) 

November 07th – Monday

• Iran admitted on Saturday (5) to having supplied drones to Russia before the invasion of Ukraine at the end of February, confirming Kiev's accusations against Moscow of using Iranian drones for its attacks on civilians and infrastructure. (AFP)
• A Ukrainian shelling damaged the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on Sunday (6) and caused water and electricity cuts in the city of Kherson, Russian occupation authorities reported. (AFP)

November 6th – Sunday

• Ukrainian bombing damages Kakhovka dam, in the Kherson region, occupied by Moscow. (AFP)

November 4th – Friday

• The head of Government of Germany, Olaf Scholz, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin this Friday (4) in Beijing to “not refuse” the extension of the agreement on Ukrainian cereal exports, which expires on November 19. (AFP)

• Cereal exports from Ukrainian ports resumed on Thursday (3), after Russia rejoined the agreement that guarantees transit through the Black Sea, although sowing doubts about its permanence. (AFP)

• Germany and China have agreed to reject any idea of ​​a nuclear attack in the context of the war in Ukraine, the German Chancellor said this Friday (4) after a visit to Beijing. (AFP) 

November 3th – Thursday

• The UN Security Council rejected on Wednesday (2) a resolution proposed by Russia that called for an investigation into Washington's alleged involvement in a suspected development of biological weapons in Ukraine. (AFP)
• Six ships loaded with cereals left Ukrainian ports this Thursday (3), one day after Russia returned to the agreement that allows exports, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced. (AFP) 
• Misinformation and hatred against Jews have “increased” on the internet since Russia invaded Ukraine, worsening a trend that began with the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a European Union (EU) report published this Thursday. . (AFP)

November 2th – Wednesday

• Russia will summon the British ambassador to provide him with “evidence” of its involvement in recent drone attacks against the Russian fleet on the Crimean peninsula, Moscow said on Wednesday (2). (AFP)
• Ukrainian grain exports resumed this Wednesday (2), after Russia returned to the agreement brokered by the UN and Turkey to establish a safe maritime corridor in the Black Sea. (AFP)

November 01th – Tuesday

• US President Joe Biden said on Monday (31) that it is time for oil giants to stop “speculating in war”, alluding to record profits for these companies as American families struggle with runaway inflation. . (AFP)
• Tycoon Oleg Tinkov, founder of the online bank Tinkoff, announced on Monday (31) that he renounced his Russian nationality because of the conflict in Ukraine, which he had previously criticized. (AFP)
• The supply of water and electricity was restored in the Kiev region, one day after Russian attacks that caused large-scale cuts in supply, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko, announced this Tuesday (1st). (AFP)

October 31th – Monday

• Russia said on Sunday it had recovered remains of the drones that attacked its fleet in Sevastopol, saying the devices used a “safe zone” of the grain transport corridor and that one of them could have been launched from a “civilian ship”. . (AFP)
• The Russian delegation that has participated, since the beginning of August, in the inspection of ships with Ukrainian grains in Istanbul, decided to withdraw “indefinitely”, announced on Sunday (30) the Joint Coordination Center (CCC), which supervises the export operations. (AFP)
• This Monday morning (31), Russia launched a massive attack on energy installations in several regions of Ukraine, depriving 80% of the inhabitants of the capital, Kiev, of water and leaving “hundreds of locations” without electricity in several provinces. from the country. (AFP)
• A large-scale attack by Russia was underway on Monday against energy facilities in several regions of Ukraine, the Ukrainian presidency said, two days after an attack on the Russian fleet in Crimea that Moscow blamed on Kiev. (AFP)

October 29th – Saturday

• More than 17 billion euros (a similar amount in dollars) in assets of Russian oligarchs and entities have been frozen in the European Union (EU), under sanctions imposed on Russia over the war in Ukraine, the European Commissioner for Justice said on Saturday (29 ). (AFP)
• The Russian army accused London, this Saturday (29), of involvement in the explosions that caused leaks in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 oil pipelines in September. in the Baltic Sea, built to transport Russian gas to Europe. (UOL)
• Russia said this Saturday (29) that the accelerated deployment of modernized U.S. B61 tactical nuclear weapons – at NATO bases in Europe – would reduce the “nuclear limit” and that the Russia would take the measure into account in its military planningsystem. (The Guardian*)
• A Russia said this Friday (28) that it has finished calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, having called up hundreds of thousands in a month and sent more than a quarter of them to the battlefield after a mobilization campaign – the first since the Second World War. Meanwhile, the United States says it has sent more weapons to Ukraine. (Reuters*)

October 28th – Friday

• The evacuation of civilians from the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, organized by Russian occupation forces, was completed amid a Ukrainian counteroffensive, a pro-Russian official announced. (AFP)
• The UN nuclear body announced on Thursday (27) that it will carry out an “independent verification” this week at two Ukrainian nuclear sites at the request of Kiev, which denies Russian accusations of having hidden evidence of the manufacture of a “dirty bomb”. (AFP)
• Russia will face “great outrage” if it cancels the agreement that allows grain exports from war-blockaded Ukrainian ports, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared on Thursday (27). (AFP)

October 27th – Thursday

• The UN declared itself “relatively optimistic” this Wednesday (26) about the prospects of renewing an agreement that allows the export of grains from Ukrainian ports, blocked by the war with Russia. (AFP) 

• Authorities designated by Russia for Crimea said on Thursday that a drone attacked an electrical power plant during the night on this peninsula annexed by Moscow, but without causing significant damage. (AFP)

• Russia accused Ukraine on Thursday (27) of withdrawing from peace negotiations in March “on orders” from the United States, although “a very, very difficult balance was reached” between Kiev and Moscow. (AFP) 

• The Russian occupation authorities in Zaporizhzhia announced this Thursday (27) random checks on the cell phones of residents of this region in southern Ukraine, which Moscow claims to have annexed and where it has declared martial law. (AFP) 

October 26th – Wednesday

• The German group Mercedes-Benz will sell its assets in Russia to a local investor, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced this Wednesday (26), in a context of offensive in Ukraine and Western sanctions. (AFP)

• The President of the United States, Joe Biden, and the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, had a first conversation this Tuesday (25), in which they agreed to work together to support Ukraine and stand up to China, reported the White House. (AFP)

October 25th – Tuesday

• German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in Kiev this Tuesday for a surprise visit to Ukraine. (AFP)

• Five people were injured on Tuesday in an explosion in the Ukrainian city of Melitopol, pro-Russian occupation authorities said. (AFP)

• Seven civilians died and three were injured on Monday (24) in Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region (eastern Ukraine), the scene of intense fighting between Ukrainian forces and the Russian army, the region's governor said. (AFP)

October 24th – Monday

• The “dirty bomb” that, according to Moscow, Ukraine intends to detonate on its own soil, is not a nuclear device, but a conventional bomb wrapped in radioactive materials intended to be disseminated in the form of dust during the explosion. “If Russia says that Ukraine is preparing something, it only means one thing: that Russia has already prepared all this,” reacted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, accusing Moscow of trying to justify an escalation in the conflict.

The term “dirty bomb”, also called “radiological dispersion device” (or RDD, for its acronym in English), designates any device that, when detonated, spreads one, or several, chemically or biologically toxic products (or NRBC, acronym in English for nuclear, radiological, biological, or chemical). (AFP)

• Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky said on Monday (24) that Russia ordered “around 2.000 drones” from Iran to support its bombing campaign in Ukraine, which mainly affects electrical infrastructure. “According to our information, Russia has ordered around 2.000 Iranian Shaheds,” which are suicide devices, he said at a conference organized by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. (AFP)

• French President Emmanuel Macron and German Head of Government Olaf Scholz show no desire to participate in mediation of peace negotiations over the conflict in Ukraine, the Kremlin denounced. (AFP)

October 23th – Sunday

• The Ukrainian national operator Ukrenergo began this Sunday (23) a series of electricity cuts in Kiev, with the aim of “stabilizing” the supply, following Russian bombings against the country's infrastructure. (AFP)
• Russia focuses on destroying Ukraine's power grid before winter: expert. With winter in the region just weeks away, Russian missile and drone attacks are hitting thermal power plants, electricity substations, transformers and oil pipelines. (CNN Brazill)

October 22th – Saturday

• The authorities designated by Russia for southern regions of Ukraine asked civilians this Saturday (22) to immediately abandon the city of Kherson in the face of the advance of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. (AFP)
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday (22) that Russia carried out a large-scale attack on Ukraine overnight, following reports of bombings targeting crucial infrastructure that caused power outages across the country. (AFP)
• More than a million Ukrainian homes are without electricity following Russian attacks on energy facilities across the country, the country's deputy presidential chief of staff, Kyrylo Timoshenko, announced this Saturday (22). (AFP)

October 21th – Friday

• Ukraine accused Russia this Thursday (20) of having undermined the dam of a hydroelectric plant in the south and decided to impose energy rationing to alleviate the impact of Russian bombings that destroyed almost a third of the country's plants before the arrival of the winter. (AFP)
• The President of the United States, Joe Biden, attacked his Republican rivals this Thursday (20) for suggesting that United States funding to Ukraine could be reduced after the November legislative elections. (AFP)
• Pro-Russian authorities in the Kherson region, southern Ukraine, stated this Friday (21) that Ukrainian forces killed four people in bombings against the Antonivskiy bridge, over the Dnipro River, used in population evacuation operations. (AFP)

October 20th – Thursday

• A fire almost destroyed, without causing any casualties, a home for Ukrainian refugees in Northern Germany, local police said this Thursday (20), citing a criminal act. (AFP)
• This Wednesday (19), Russia warned the United Nations not to investigate the alleged attacks with Iranian-made drones in Ukraine, joining Tehran in denying the origin of the weapons, while the European Union (EU) prepares new sanctions. (AFP)

October 19th – Wednesday

• The Russian occupation authorities in the Kherson region, southern Ukraine, announced this Wednesday (19) that they intend to evacuate more than 50.000 people in the face of Kiev's counteroffensive. (AFP)
• The Russian mercenary group Wagner has begun construction of a fortified defense line in the Luhansk region, in eastern Ukraine, annexed by Moscow at the end of September, its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced on Wednesday. (AFP)
• The European Union (EU) is working on defining new sanctions against Iran after gathering “sufficient evidence” that it supplied drones to Russia for use in Ukraine, a spokeswoman for the bloc announced on Wednesday. (AFP)
• Several explosions were heard in the center of the Ukrainian capital Kiev this Wednesday, shortly after the activation of anti-aircraft sirens. (AFP)

October 18th – Tuesday

• More than a thousand Ukrainian locations are without electricity due to Russian bombings that, according to Ukraine, destroyed 30% of the country's power plants in just over a week. (AFP)
• At least two people died this Tuesday (18) in Russian attacks on critical infrastructure in Kiev, which caused electricity and water cuts in part of the city, the Ukrainian Public Prosecutor's Office reported. (AFP)
• Ukraine's state nuclear energy agency accused Russia on Tuesday of arresting two directors of the Zaporizhzhia plant, a Russian-controlled plant in southern Ukraine. (AFP)
• Global internet freedom has declined for the 12th consecutive year, in particular due to the situation in Russia, says a study released this Tuesday (18) by the American group Freedom House, which, however, records progress in smaller countries. (AFP)

October 17th – Monday

• At least three people died and 19 were injured this Monday (17), when a Russian supersonic fighter-bomber crashed into a residential building in Yeysk, a city in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine – Russian agencies reported. . (AFP)
• Ukraine reported this Monday (17) that Russia had once again attacked Kiev with several “suicide drones”, an act of “desperation” by Moscow, according to Ukrainian authorities. (AFP)
• At least 11 people died and 15 were injured in a “terrorist” attack on Saturday (15) on a Russian military training camp in the Belgorod region, on the border with Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said. (AFP)
• The war in Ukraine and the resulting inflation have plunged millions of children into poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in recent months, warned a study by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), published this Monday (17), evening Sunday in Brasília). (AFP)

October 14th – Friday

• The rapes and sexual assaults attributed to Russian forces in Ukraine constitute “a military strategy” and a “deliberate tactic to dehumanize victims,” said UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten. (AFP)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin ruled out this Friday (14) the “immediate” launch of new “massive” bombings in Ukraine and the expansion of troop mobilization announced three weeks ago following the setbacks of his forces. (AFP)
• Russia announced this Thursday (13) that it will help organize the evacuation of residents from the Ukrainian province of Kherson, which it annexed last month, in a new sign that the Ukrainian counteroffensive continues to advance. (AFP)

October 13th – Thursday

• The UN General Assembly approved this Wednesday by a large majority a resolution condemning “the illegal annexation” by Russia of four Ukrainian territories, inflicting a new diplomatic defeat on Moscow, which had vetoed a similar resolution in the Security Council at the end of September. (AFP)
• Five Russians recruited to fight in Ukraine, in the context of the mobilization decreed in September, died after joining the army, Russian authorities indicated this Thursday (13), after announcements of deaths of Russian soldiers have multiplied in recent days. (AFP)
• Pro-Russian separatist forces in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk announced this Thursday (13) the capture of two locations near the industrial city of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, which Moscow has been trying to conquer since August. (AFP)

October 12th – Wednesday

• Shield: The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), Jens Stoltenberg, called on allies to urgently strengthen Ukraine's anti-aircraft defense so that it can defend itself against Russian attacks. The call reinforced the request made by the Ukrainian president, last Tuesday (11), when Zelensky asked the G7 countries that help create a 'air shield' to prevent Russian attacks on his country, which have multiplied since Monday (10). These attacks occurred after the explosion that partially destroyed a bridge connecting Russian territory to the Crimean peninsula. (GaúchaZH)
• Kerch: 8 responsible for bridge attack linking Russia and Crimea were detained by the Russian secret service (FSB). Four people died in the incident. Among those detained, five are Russian citizens and three from Ukraine and Armenia. The main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, the FSB said the bridge explosion was organized by the Ukrainian military intelligence service and its director, Kirilo Budanov. (UOL) In a statement, the FSB detailed that, allegedly, the bomb used in the explosion contained 22 tons of explosives which were shipped from a port in Odesa, southern Ukraine, in August. (Stay)

• Donetsk: A Russian attack left at least 7 dead and 8 injured in the city of Avdiïvka. “The Russians attacked the central market, where many people were at that time,” announced the Ukrainian governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko. (AFP)

More:

• Recession: the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a warning last Tuesday (11) about the impacts of the war in Ukraine and inflation on the world economy. According to the organization, the forecast is that developed countries will fall into recession in 2023, reflecting the global slowdown that has been generated since this year. “This year’s impacts will reopen economic wounds that were partially healed after the pandemic,” said the IMF’s chief economist. (AFP)
• Bella Ciao: From Ukraine to Chile, from Hong Kong to Iran, protesters from all over the world join the rhythm of “Bella Ciao”, the anthem of resistance to fascism in Italy that has become a call for freedom. The song has become a symbol of the current protests since it was sung by an Iranian woman with her face uncovered in a video that went around the world. (AFP)

October 11th – Tuesday

• The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday (11) that its forces launched new attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, a day after Moscow made major attacks on several cities in the country. (AFP)
• Ukraine announced this Tuesday (11) that Russia had returned the bodies of 62 soldiers, in particular those who died in July in the bombing of the Olenivka prison in occupied territory in eastern Ukraine. (AFP) On the same day, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine announced that exhumed the bodies of 78 civilians in two cities in the Donetsk region, in the east of the country, recently reconquered by Ukrainian forces.
• The G7 powers are holding an emergency meeting this Tuesday (11) to discuss the recent campaign of Russian bombings in Ukraine, attacks that provoked outrage from the international community. (AFP)
• Biden tells CNN that Putin “miscalculated” the ability of Russian troops to occupy Ukraine. The president left open the possibility of dialogue with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 meeting scheduled for November, but clarified that no negotiations are planned about Ukraine. “I have no intention of meeting with him,” Biden told CNN, adding that he would see Putin if the Russian leader wanted to negotiate the release of Brittney Griner, an American basketball star detained in Russia. (AFP)

October 10th – Monday

• The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, accused Ukraine this Monday (10) of preparing an attack against his country, for which he announced the deployment of joint troops with Russia, without saying where. (AFP)
• G7 leaders and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky will discuss the latest attacks in Ukraine on Tuesday (11), the German government said on Monday (10). (AFP)
• A wave of bombings on a scale not seen in months hit many Ukrainian cities, including Kiev, this Monday (10), leaving “dead and injured”, according to President Volodimir Zelensky. (Curto news)

October 09th – Sunday

• Less than 24 hours after the explosion on the bridge built by Russians between its territory and Crimea, Russia bombed the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, leaving approximately 17 civilians were killed and 49 injured, including 6 children, according to the Ukrainian president. The bombs hit the territory during the early hours of this Sunday (9).
  
  Moscow did not immediately blame Ukraine and Ukrainian authorities have not formally claimed responsibility for Saturday's truck bomb explosion. According to the Russian government, it belonged to a resident of Russia's Krasnodar region.
  
  Kiev, however, threatened several times to hit the Kerch Bridge, a symbol of the annexation of Crimea and a route for supplying Russian troops in Ukraine. The Russian president did not react publicly. During the night, Russian attacks were carried out on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia. (AFP)

October 08th – Saturday

• Kerch: largest bridge in Europe and the only one between Crimea and Russia is partially destroyed after truck bomb explosion. In the incident, a large fire damaged part of the bridge, which connects southern Russia to the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014. The infrastructure, built by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin and inaugurated in 2018, is essential for transporting military material to Russian troops deployed in Ukraine.
  
  

• Ukrainian authorities had already done bridge attack threats, but the Ukrainian army and Kiev's special services (SBU) neither confirmed nor denied their involvement in the action. President Volodymyr Zelensky published an ironic video about the “cloudy” weather in Crimea on Saturday – a likely allusion to the smoke from the explosion.

October 07th – Friday

• Two Russian citizens arrived in a boat on an Alaskan beach and requested asylum in the United States, the US Department of Homeland Security reported on Thursday (6). (AFP)
• Brazil, Mexico and Argentina are not among the 24 countries in the Americas that signed the declaration of support for Ukraine and condemnation of Moscow read this Thursday during the annual OAS meeting in Lima. (AFP)
• At least five civilians were killed on Friday in a Ukrainian attack on a bus in the southern region of Kherson, where Kiev forces are carrying out a counteroffensive, a pro-Russian official said. (AFP)
• Ukrainians find mass grave in a liberated city in the east from the country. (Brazil Agency)

October 06th – Thursday

• Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky said on Wednesday (5) that Kiev's troops had recovered three cities from Russian forces in the Kherson region, in the south of the country, where Moscow is suffering military setbacks. (AFP)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin assured this Wednesday (5) that the military situation in the Ukrainian territories that Moscow annexed will “stabilize”, after suffering a series of defeats on the battlefield and seeing several cities retaken by Russian forces. Kiev. (AFP)
• Two people died and five were missing after attacks on the city of Zaporizhzhia, in southeastern Ukraine, the region's governor said on Thursday (06), who accused Russia. (AFP)

October 05th – Wednesday

• The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, signed this Wednesday (5) the law annexing four Ukrainian regions and the decrees formally appointing the rulers that Moscow had already established in the territories. (AFP)
• The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, claimed this Tuesday (04) the advances of his Army in the south of Ukraine and announced the reconquest of dozens of locations from the hands of the Russians, at the same time that he thanked the president of the United States for the delivery of new weapons. (AFP)
• Ukraine claimed this Wednesday (5) military advances in the Luhansk region (east), until now almost completely controlled by Russia. (AFP)

October 04th – Tuesday

• The “crimes” committed by Russia in Ukraine must be “documented, judged and punished” – declared French Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, in a debate in the National Assembly on Monday (03). (AFP)
• North Korea expressed support for Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territories on Tuesday (04) and criticized the United States and its allies for trying to condemn Moscow's behavior at the UN. (AFP)
• This Monday (3), Sweden blocked access within a radius of five nautical miles in the sector of leaks from the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, announced the Public Prosecutor's Office, in charge of investigating the alleged sabotage. (AFP)

October 03th – Monday

• Russia will “consult” the population to establish the borders of the annexed regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, in southern Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said on Monday (03). (AFP)
• A total of 417 Russian tourists arrived this Saturday (2) on Margarita Island, in northeastern Venezuela, after seven months of interruption of connection due to air restrictions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. (AFP)

October 02th – Sunday

• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced this Sunday (02) that the strategic city of Lyman, in the eastern region of the country, in one of the territories annexed by Russia, is “completely free” of Moscow troops. (AFP)
• Pope Francis pleaded this Sunday (02) to Russian President Vladimir Putin to put an end to the “spiral of violence” in Ukraine, while at the same time criticizing the annexations of territories as “contrary to international law”. (AFP)
• Ukraine accused Russian forces on Saturday of shooting dead 1 civilians, including 24 children, in an attack on a convoy of vehicles near the recently reconquered city of Kupyansk.

October 01th – Saturday

• Ukrainian army claims it has surrounded thousands of Russian soldiers in Lyman. The Ukrainian army said this Saturday (1) that its troops surrounded thousands of Russian soldiers near the city of Lyman, an important railway hub in eastern Ukraine that is under Moscow's control. (AFP)
• Putin's war is a crime against the planet. Russia's military campaign in Ukraine unleashed a torrent of negative effects on forests and indigenous peoples who were already under pressure from global forces. (Estadão)🚥
• Director of Ukrainian nuclear power plant detained by Russians. Russian soldiers arrested Ihor Murashov, the general director of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe which is currently under Russian control. Murashov is primarily responsible for the plant's nuclear and radiological safety. (g1)
• Brazil abstains at the UN from condemning the annexation of part of Ukraine to Russia. Brazil abstained from voting on a resolution at the UN Security Council this Friday (30) to condemn the annexation of four regions of Ukraine to Russia. The resolution was vetoed by Moscow and abstentions by China and India. (FSP)🚥
• President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Friday (30) that Ukraine was officially applying to join NATO., hours after Vladimir Putin said at a Kremlin ceremony that he was annexing four Ukrainian provinces. (The Guardian*)

September 30th – Friday

• A bombing against a convoy of civilian vehicles left at least 25 people dead this Friday (30) in southern Ukraine, just hours before the Russian government formalized the annexation of four Ukrainian regions. (AFP)
• Russia still needs to “clarify” whether it will annex the entire Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia or just the parts it occupies, the Kremlin spokesman said on Friday. (AFP)
• Russia announced the annexation of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine, but in Kupiansk (northeast), Ukrainian troops continue to push back the opponent, even threatening supply routes. The Kharkiv region, one of the first objectives of the invasion, continues to resist the actions of the Kremlin, whose troops were forced to retreat after Kiev's counteroffensive in early September. (AFP)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin began this Friday (30) his speech in the Kremlin dedicated to the annexation of four Ukrainian regions after “referendums” widely denounced by Ukraine and its Western allies. (Curto news)

September 29th – Thursday

• The President of Russia will announce on Friday (30) the annexation of four Ukrainian regions representing 15% of the neighboring country's territory. (g1)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin called on former player Diniyar Bilyaletdinov for war against Ukraine. In an interview with the Russian portal “Sports”, the father of one of the heroes of his team's campaign in the 2008 Euro Cup confirmed his son's departure. (Earth)

September 28th – Wednesday

• Ukraine cannot negotiate with Russia after the organization of annexation “referendums” in four Ukrainian regions, three of which already announced on Tuesday night (27) that the “yes” vote won, declared Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky , to the UN. (AFP)
• The Ukrainian government accused Brazil, among seven other countries, to send observers to give legitimacy to the referendum that Russia organized to annex 15% of Ukrainian territory — the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied that it had sent an official observer. (g1)

September 27th – Tuesday

• The two Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany, out of operation due to the war in Ukraine, were affected by unexplained gas leaks in the Baltic Sea, Swedish and Danish authorities reported on Tuesday (27). The cause of geopolitical tensions in recent months, the two gas pipelines operated by a consortium linked to the Russian group Gazprom are out of operation due to the war in Ukraine, but remain full of gas. (AFP)
• Georgia and Kazakhstan, two countries that share a border with Russia, confirmed this Tuesday (27) the significant increase in the arrival of Russians since President Vladimir Putin announced, last week, a military mobilization to send reinforcements to Ukraine. (AFP)
• Russia will not present any films for the Oscar competition, the Russian Film Academy announced, at a time when the United States and Russia are facing one of the worst crises in their history due to the Russian offensive in Ukraine. (AFP)

September 26th – Monday

• The US would respond to any Russian use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine and explained to Moscow the “catastrophic consequences” it would face, said US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Sunday (25). (CNN)
• Roger Waters shows scheduled to take place in April are canceled in Poland. The singer is accused of being “a defender of Putin”. (Look)
• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, confirmed on Sunday (25) that the country received air protection equipment from the United States. The Ground-Air system allows greater control of airspace and the delivery of the machinery was approved by the American Congress in August. The war completed seven months this weekend. (band)
• Russian authorities allied with President Vladimir Putin called on Sunday (25) for the correction of “errors”, after the elderly, sick and students were included in the recruitment campaign launched in the country. (D.W.)

September 25th – Sunday

• A leak of files from an agency that controls networks in Russia reveals government censorship and repression mechanisms. Understand how Putin's internet spy network works. (Folha de S.Paulo) (I.e.
• Putin increases punishment for soldiers who surrender or desert. New law provides 5 to 10 years for those who do not attend military service and 15 years in case of desertion during mobilization or martial law. (InfoMoney)

September 24th – Saturday

• After Russian President Vladimir Putin mobilized reservists to serve in the troops in the war in Ukraine, the population was thinking about alternatives to escape. Searches in Google for “how to break your hand” grew up in the country. (GZH)

September 23th – Friday

• Russia's referendum questionwhether residents want to join Russia in four occupied regions of Ukraine started this Friday (23rd) and runs until September 27th. (CNN)
• According to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia has infiltrated agents in Ukraine's defense sector and that is why the country anticipates movements. (CNN)
• This Friday (23) the chairman of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Ukraine said that war crimes were committed in Ukraine. (CNN)
• The Ukrainian army announced this Friday (23) that it has liberated a city in Donetsk, in the east of the country, from the Russians, while pro-Russian authorities in the occupied regions organize referendums on annexation to Russia. (AFP)

September 22th – Thursday

• The former president of Russia and current vice-president of the country's Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, said that Russia is ready to defend the territories that were conquered in Ukraine with “strategic nuclear weapons”. (g1)
• President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, said in his speech to the UN General Assembly that Russia must be punished for the aggression against the Ukrainian people. (CNN)
• On Wednesday (21) flights out of Russia were full and air ticket prices soared. Demand for tickets increased after the country's president announced a partial military mobilization, around 300 reservists would be called up for combat. (D.W.)
• The cost to Ukraine of the Russian invasion, which began on February 24, is estimated at almost a trillion dollars, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky said in Berlin. (AFP)

September 21th – Wednesday

• Ucrania prome“destroy” the Russians mobilized to fight, according to the army commander. (AFP)
• At least 364 people were arrested this Wednesday (21) across Russia in demonstrations against the partial mobilization of reservists for the offensive in Ukraine, announced hours earlier by President Vladimir Putin. At the same time, the Russian population is rushing to find plane tickets to leave the country as quickly as possible. (Curto News)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this Wednesday (21) a “partial mobilization” of Russians of fighting age in Ukraine and warned the West that the country is willing to use “all means” in its defense. “This is not a bluff”, declared Putin, who accused Western countries of wanting to “destroy” Russia and of “nuclear blackmail” against his country, implying that his forces would be willing to use nuclear weapons. (Curto news)
• Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, says that Russia wants to try to destroy Ukraine and change the borders. According to Morawiecki, NATO will support Ukraine. (g1)

September 20th – Tuesday

• Ukraine talks about ''nuclear terrorism'' after Russian attack near plant. The missile landed less than 300 meters away from the plant. (Estadão)
• The fast food chain Mc Donald's announced the reopening of its stores in Ukraine starting this Tuesday (20). The first stores opened, for now only for delivery, are in Kiev. (UOL)
• According to the UK Ministry of Defense, Russia may have lost four fighter jets in 10 days. If this is confirmed, 55 aircraft will already be unusable. (CNN)

September 19th – Monday

• Ukrainian investigators began analyzing more than 440 graves that were found in a forest near Izium, in eastern Ukraine, on Friday (16). Some of the bodies had their hands tied. Others showed signs of having suffered violencesystem. (G1) Russia calls Ukraine’s reports about bodies found in Izium “lies.” (AFP)
• Ukraine accused Russia of bombing the area of ​​the Pivdennonukrainsk nuclear power plant, in the south of the country, this Monday (19). The attack sparked new fears that this war could lead to a major atomic incident. (AFP)
• Alla Pugacheva, Russian music icon, criticizes the war in Ukraine on her Instagram account. (AFP)
• Russian army hits missiles in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (UOL)

September 17th – Saturday

• Russian city is bombed and Putin's government responds with a series of attacks against Ukraine. The Belgord region, 50 km from Ukrainian territory, was attacked this Saturday (17). The Russian response came against the regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv. (G1).
• The agency Russian Tass reports that 120 Ukrainian soldiers were killed during an attempt to launch an offensive in the Kherson region and that Russian air defenses shot down eight Ukrainian drones and intercepted 25 rockets in the region.

September 16th – Friday

• Xi and Putin want a new world order and the invasion of Ukraine could ruin their plans. (CNN)
• Ukraine says it found a grave with 450 dead near the reconquered city. (UOL)
• Pope says providing Ukraine with weapons for self-defense is morally acceptable. (Earth)

September 15th – Thursday

• The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, defended this Thursday (15) that Russian President Vladimir Putin should present himself to international justice for war crimes allegedly committed in Ukraine. “Putin must lose this war and be accountable for his actions, for me this is important”, said Von der Leyen. Furthermore, he considered it “possible” that the Russian president could one day be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court, considering that “ultimately, Putin is responsible” for war crimes in Ukraine. (AFP)
• A driver collided with a vehicle carrying Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky as the presidential motorcade passed through Kiev. The president was slightly injured. (Curto news)
• Russia's Foreign Minister said that if the United States supplies missiles to Ukraine it will cross the "red line" and become part of the conflictsystem. (UOL)

September 14th – Wednesday

• The city of Krivoy Rog, in central Ukraine, is at risk of flooding following Russian bombing that damaged hydraulic infrastructure and caused the Inhulets River to flood, the Ukrainian Presidency reported this Wednesday (14). According to him, the center and another neighborhood of the city, with 600 thousand inhabitants, are “at risk of flooding”. “For us, this is a challenge, but the situation is under control. All services were involved to eliminate the threat as soon as possible”, he added via Telegram. AFP
• At the beginning of the war, Putin refused a peace agreement. The provisional agreement with Ukraine would satisfy Russia's demand, which wanted Kiev out of NATO. (CNN)
• The conquest of territories in Ukraine is increasing pressure from the German military to send the Ukrainian military state-of-the-art battle tanks. (That is)

September 13th – Tuesday

• After reconquering the city of Vovchansk, the Ukrainian army burns the Russian flag. In recent weeks, the movement to retake cities has intensified. (g1)
• Ukraine announced this Tuesday (13) that Russian troops were defeated yesterday (12). (uol)
• Russia is reinforcing China's support in the war. This week the country leaders will hold a meeting. The retaking of Ukraine in several territories could mean a new phase of the war. (CNN)

September 12th – Monday

• The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights denounced this Monday (12) the “intimidation” in Russia of opponents of the war in Ukraine, as well as the “forms of censorship” in force in the country. (AFP)
• The Ukrainian army announced this Monday (12) that it had retaken “more than 20 locations” in 24 hours as part of its counteroffensive to fend off the Russian army. (AFP)
• Ukraine shuts down Europe's largest nuclear power plant due to safety measures, the site is occupied by Russian troops and is a target for combat. (g1)

September 11th – Sunday 

• “Thousands” of people fled the Kharkiv region in Ukraine, the scene of Kiev's counteroffensive, to Russia within 24 hours, the governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, said this Sunday. “It wasn’t the calmest night or morning. In the last 24 hours, thousands of people have crossed the border,” Viacheslav Gladkov said in a video posted on Telegram. (AFP)
• Ukraine claimed important territorial gains, including the city of Kupiansk (east), as part of a military counter-offensive against Russia, which decided to regroup its forces on the eastern front. In September, the Ukrainian army recovered “2.000 kilometers of territory” that were under Russian rule, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, without specifying whether these were square kilometers. “In recent days, the Russian army has shown us what it has to offer: its back. After all, he did what he had to do: escape,” Zelensky provoked. One of the last cities Ukraine claims to have retaken is Kupyansk, taken by Russian troops shortly after the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.

September 10th – Saturday

• The Russian Defense Ministry announced this Saturday (10) that it is withdrawing troops from two areas in the eastern region of Kharkiv, Ukraine, where a Ukrainian offensive made significant advances last week. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said troops would be regrouped from the Balakliya and Izyum areas to the Donetsk region of Ukraine. (AFP)
• Ukrainian authorities used US intelligence to plan counteroffensive (The New York Times*)
• Russia recognizes what it called Ukraine's 'substantial victory' in reconquering territories. The Ukrainian army retook more than a thousand square kilometers in the east of the country. It is the biggest advance since March. The Kremlin announced reinforcements at the front. (g1)
• Russia sends reinforcements to Kharkiv to repel Ukraine counterattack. Moscow has assigned military reinforcements to Ukraine's Kharkiv region, according to Russian media reports, after the first major Ukrainian counterattack since the spring made significant territorial gains. (The Guardian*)
• Baerbock promeI support you in Ukraine despite Russian pressure. The German Foreign Minister makes a surprise visit to Kiev and criticizes what she called “Putin’s blackmail” with cuts in gas supplies. Germany announces sending experts to investigate war crimes in Ukraine. (UOl)

September 9th – Friday

• Ukrainian army claims it has recovered territory in Kharkiv, Donbass and the south. The cities were under the control of Russia, which has not yet confirmed the Ukrainian reconquest. (g1)
• Ukraine's GDP fell 37% in the second quarter, but the country's Ministry of Economy plans an economic hiring of 33% in 2022. (Value)

September 8th – Wednesday

• Bombing damages Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, even with UN arrival. The Ukrainian government has said it may close the complex, which is the largest in Europe. (The antagonist)
• Ukraine recovers ground and UN accuses Russia of forced transfer of minors during the war. The UN classified the accusations as “credible” (Uol)
• Director of the Zaporizhzhia plant calls for the creation of a trust zone and the deployment of United Nations soldiers. The fear of radiation leakage is growing more and more. (Correio Brasiliense)

September 6th – Tuesday

• Russia accuses Ukraine of new bombings against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (AFP)
• Russia suspends annexation referendum in zone occupied by Ukraine counteroffensive (AFP)
• Last reactor at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shuts down (AFP)

September 2th – Friday

• The UN agency that is at the Zaporizhazhia nuclear power plant, stated that he had identified that “the physical integrity of the plant was violated on several occasions”. (The Antagonist)
• This Friday (2), Ukraine and Russia exchanged accusations about the actions around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. (Land)
• Students return to school in Ukraine, schools are dividing into in-person and online classes. (R7)

September 1th – Thursday

• UN convoy with 20 vehicles arrives at the Zaporizhazhia plant. The objective of the convoy is to “avoid a nuclear accident”, according to the agency’s director. (g1)
• Germany warns that Moscow could escalate the conflict and they should not doubt it. (The Guardian*)

August 31st – Wednesday

Fighting in the South

• The fighting that began after new counterattacks by Ukraine in southern regions of the country intensifies. Different authorities in the country report that Russian bombing left at least 6 dead and 15 injured in Kherson, a city occupied by Russian troops since February 24th. Around 160 Russian soldiers were killed after Ukraine launched new artillery attacks and missile launches as part of fighting in the Mikolaiv and Kherson regions, according to Ukrainian forces. (Newsweek*)
• The conflict, fought between Russian occupation troops and Ukrainians trying to regain control of the regions, could last months, according to experts. (BBC*)
• Offensive in southern Ukraine has 'successes' in three areas of the Kherson region – local official (Reuters)

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• Russia deepens energy crunch in Europe with new gas suspensionsystem. (Reuters)

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• Ukrainian authorities, however, accused Russia of carrying out new bombings this Thursday (31) in an area close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. “These provocations are dangerous, said a member of the Ukrainian military leadership. (FolhaPE)

Radiation

• The European Union will deliver 5,5 million tablets to prevent radiation exposure to Ukrainians. According to the EU, the “safety measure” aims to prevent “inhaled or ingested radioactive iodine from being absorbed by the thyroid”. Last Wednesday (30), the Defense of Russia had stated that the radiation situation at the nuclear power plant located in Zaporizhzhia remains normal. The Russian ministry also said that two projectiles and a Ukrainian drone had hit the plant, including a site that stored nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. ((CNN)

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August 30th – Tuesday

• Last Monday (29), the Ukraine claimed to have launched its first counterattack on Russian forces to try to recover areas in the south of the country, occupied since March. Violent fighting was observed throughout the day in the region, reaching places such as Kherson and Mykolaiv. Russia condemned the Ukrainian offensives, accusing US involvement. (Folha de S.Paulo)
  This Tuesday (30), A statement from Ukraine's presidency added that offensives were launched “in several directions” and on “almost the entire territory of the Kherson region.”.
• In Kharviv, in northeastern Ukraine, at least 5 people died and 7 were injured when Russian bombings hit the city center, according to the regional governor and the mayor. The city borders Russia and has been bombed several times since the start of the war. (G1)
• Russia accused Ukraine of new bombings on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which reportedly hit buildings near a fuel storage facility. (CNN) The nuclear plant will be inspected this week by an IAEA team to assess the risks of accidents and radiation leaks due to the constant explosions that hit the region. (UOL)
• Old and untrained corps of soldiers... Russia has experienced difficulties recruiting members for the armed forces, says the United States Department of Defense. Read more in O Tempo.
• For the first time, the Vatican claims that Russia started the War in Ukraine. Find out more in this AFP video. Ukrainian authorities had expressed dissatisfaction with a speech by Pope Francis about the daughter of Russian ideologist Alexander Dugin, whom he classified as an “innocent victim” in recent days.

August 29th – Monday

• Authorities do not rule out a Chernobyl and Fukushima scenario at the Ukrainian nuclear plant under the control of Russian troops. According to the head of the civic-military administration of the Zarorizhzhia region, the collapse of the facility could spread to the Crimean Canal and “to the entire Black Sea”. (Sputnik Brazil)
• According to the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a mission is already on its way to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is expected to inspect this weeksystem. (Exam) According to Rafael Grossi, 10 inspectors make up the team that will check the plant, which is the largest in Europe. Read more information obtained by AFP.
• Russia identifies second Ukrainian suspect in the murder of journalist and political scientist Darya Dugina, daughter of the nationalist as “Putin’s guru”, the Russian president. According to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Bogdan Tsyganenko helped another Ukrainian, Natalya Vovk, to assemble the explosive that hit Dugina. (The Washington Post*)

August 28th – Sunday

The European Union plans to suspend its travel visa agreement with Russia later this week (Financial Times* (I.e.). The plan to freeze the 2007 agreement will make it more difficult and more expensive for Russians to obtain Schengen Agreement documents. 

August 27th – Saturday

• The Russian government prevented a joint statement from the UN conference on nuclear disarmamentr (BBC*). Russia claimed to be very concerned about military activities around Ukraine's nuclear power plants. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty's mission is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. It is reviewed every five years by the 191 countries that have signed up to the agreement.
• Do you want to understand more about this agreement 👆🏼? Click here. (Politicize)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that provides for the country to pay a monthly benefit of 10.000 rubles (R$839) to Ukrainian refugees who migrated to Russian territory during the invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24. Read more in the article 360º power.

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August 26th – Friday

• Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky said Ukraine was “one step away” from a nuclear disaster, and asked international organizations for help in withdrawing Russian troops occupying the Zaporizhzhia plant. After a bomber, a fire hit the site this Thursday (25), and Ukraine blamed Russia. Explosions also occurred in places close to the plant, and Zelensky stated that the south of the country is in a “state of humanitarian disaster” in his Telegram. (360º Power)
• Zaporizhzhia, the largest European nuclear plant, was reconnected to the Ukrainian grid by the Russian army, after around 24 hours of shutdown of activities. The interruption of the plant's last two reactors was carried out by the security system of the Ukrainian company that provides state control of the network. Activities resumed at 14:04 pm (8:04 am Brasília time) this Friday (26). (Gauchazh)

August 25th – Thursday

• Death toll in Russian attack on train station in Ukraine rises to 25. The bombing was condemned by the European Union and several countries and set fire to four carriages on Wednesday (23), as announced by the Ukrainian president, it happened on the date of the celebration of the country's independence. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that the missile fired eliminated “more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers”. According to the ministry, the train was “on its way to combat zones”. (Gauchazh)
• NGOs denounced that Ukraine and Russia did not adhere to an agreement to curb the use of cluster bombs, whose objective is to reduce civilian deaths. This weaponry, according to a report, was used 5 times more in the first half of 2022 than in the entire previous year. (G1)
• Ukraine wants a international court to try Putin and those responsible for the invasion of the country by 2023, according to a senior Ukrainian government official to AFP. Read more about this subject in Jota’s report: Can Putin be convicted in The Hague for crimes against humanity in Ukraine? (Jota)

• Europe's main nuclear power plant shuts down after fires, according to the state-owned company that operates the network of plants in Ukraine, Energoatom (read the full note, in English). There is no forecast for Zaporizhzhia to resume operations, and Russian and Ukrainian authorities accuse each other of the attacks on the site. (360º Power)

August 24st – Wednesday

• Ukraine: 6 months of war and 31 years of independence – Curto News
• Russia fired a missile at a railway station in central Ukraine, leaving at least 15 people dead and 50 injured, according to Volodimir Zelensky, Ukrainian president, reported to the United Nations (UN) this afternoon (24). (UOL)
• President of the United States, Joe Biden announces military aid of around 3 billion dollars to Ukrainesystem. (360º Power)

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August 23th – Tuesday

• The United States Embassy asked “citizens to leave Ukraine”, as the “State Department” had information that Russia would intensify “attacks against civil infrastructure and government facilities in the coming days.” (AFP)
• The Ukrainian president promegive a “powerful response” to Russia in the event of any attack on Ukraine’s Independence Day, next Wednesday (24).
• Em Moscow, Russia, was held a memorial for journalist Darya Dugina, killed in a car bomb explosion last Saturday (20). Darya was the daughter of Alexander Dugin, an influential political scientist known as 'Putin's guru', Russian president. Dugin stated, in the tribute, that his daughter “died in the name of the Russian victory, of the truth, of the Orthodox faith and in the name of the country”. (G1 and Euronews)

August 22th – Monday

• Russia rules out the possibility of “diplomatic agreements” with Ukraine (Look)
• Six months after the start of the war, almost 9 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed, according to the commander of Ukraine's army. (AFP) Russia does not release the numbers, but Western officials say between 70.000 and 80.000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the invasion began. (BBC)*
• Russia accused Ukraine of the death of Alexander Dugin's daughter, ultranationalist intellectual and close to Russian President Vladimir Putin who supported the Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory. Darya Dugina was in a car that exploded near Moscow, and Ukraine denies involvement in the attack. (FSP*)

August 21th – Sunday

• Just days before Ukraine marks the anniversary of its independence, coinciding with six months of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky warned that Moscow could do something particularly “cruel” this week. “Russia could go out of its way to do something particularly disgusting and cruel,” Zelensky said during his daily address on Saturday. On August 24, Ukraine celebrates its independence from the USSR in 1991, which this year coincides with six months of the Russian invasion, which caused tens of thousands of deaths and mass destruction in the country. (AFP)

August 20th – Saturday

• Daughter of Putin ally killed in car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow. Read this article on Estadão who is Alexander Dugin, 'Putin's guru', who lost his daughter in the car explosion.
• At least 12 people, including three children, were injured this Saturday (20) after Russian shelling in Voznesenk, not far from a nuclear power plant in the Mykolaiv region, in southern Ukraine, according to a new report from the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office. “According to provisional information, twelve people, including three children, were injured. Two children are in serious condition,” the prosecutor’s office said on Telegram. Hours earlier, regional governor Vitaly Kim had reported nine injuries on Telegram, including four children between the ages of three and 17. “All the children are in serious condition,” he said. Voznesensk, with around 30.000 inhabitants, is approximately 20 kilometers from the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant, the second most powerful in Ukraine, which has a total of four atomic plants. (AFP)
• Russian fertilizers and agricultural products must be able to reach world markets “unhindered” to avoid a food crisis, said UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, in Istanbul this Saturday (20). “It is important that governments and the private sector cooperate to bring them to the market”, he declared, from the Joint Coordination Center (CCC) which oversees the smooth functioning of the agreement sealed between Ukraine and Russia to resume the export of Ukrainian grains by sea. Black. (AFP)

August 19th – Friday

• The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is located in southern Ukraine and has been occupied by Russian forces since March, continues to be the center of tensions between Russia and Ukraine and the world's attention.
  • Families living near the plant are fleeing their homes and taking their belongings in fear of the threat of nuclear disaster. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Russian troops are guarding the area, which guarantees that there will not be “a second Chernobyl”. (Washington Post*)
  • “Obviously, Zaporizhzhia’s electricity is Ukrainian electrical energy,” he argued the UN Secretary General, in a request that Russia keep the nuclear plant connected to the Ukrainian energy grid. (
  • This Friday (19), Ukraine announced that Russian troops are planning to turn off power to the plant, the largest in Europe, to disconnect the country from the electrical grid. Concern about the impacts on the country's supply had already been raised by Ukraine's central operator, Energoatom, which stated this Friday that it believed the Russians were planning a new “large-scale” attack on the site. (UOL)
  • A possible nuclear accident at the Zaporizhzhia plant could cause radioactive material reached neighboring countries, such as Germany, Poland and Slovakia, Russia confirmedsystem. (Power 360º)🚥

• For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, China's leader, Xi Jinping, is expected to travel to another country. Both Chinese and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to participate in the next EU summit meeting. G20, in November in Bali, Indonesia, according to the Thai president's advisor. A spokesperson for the White House National Security Council reiterated that Biden did not think Putin should attend the meeting “while he wages his war on Ukraine.” (Reuters*)

• Under the allegation of having hosted false information about the war in Ukraine, the Russian Court fined the streaming platform Twitch – popular among gamers – R$168 thousand reais (equivalent to 2 million rubles). The content that was the target of the accusation was a video of a resident of the city of Bucha, understand how Russian law deals with the disclosure of information related to military affairs in the matter of Power 360º.

August 18th – Thursday

• Four months after his last visit, the UN Secretary General arrives in Ukraine for a trilateral meeting with the president of Turkey and Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky. In his daily message on Telegram, Zelensky announced the arrival of Antonio Guterres.
• The trio discussed concerns about a possible nuclear disaster, and the UN representative attempted to negotiate the demilitarization of the Zaporizhzhia plant. Antonio Guterres argued that any accident at the location would be a “suicide”, check out the video about the meeting. (Correio do Povo Play). Understand more:

• At least five people died after Russia bombed the Kharkiv region, or Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine. (That is)The bombing occurred just hours before the meeting between Ukraine, Turkey and the UN began, in the western city of Lviv. (AFP) Kharviv is the second largest Ukrainian city. Volodimir Zelensky said, in a message on Telegram, that the attack was “despicable and cynical”. “We will not forgive, we will take revenge,” he said.

• Na On Friday (19), the cereal export agreement will be discussed, and Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the UN, will disembark in Turkey. According to the organization, between August 1 and 15, 21 humanitarian ships with agricultural products were allowed to leave Ukraine, which, along with Russia, is among the world's largest exporters of food grains. The agreement aims to address acute food insecurity, which affects more than 82 countries and 345 million people today, according to the World Food Program. (R7)
• The president of Argentina warned that the conflict in Ukraine affects Latin America. (Sputnik Brazil)
• China will send troops to Russia for joint military exercises aiming to “improve the level of strategic collaboration”, informed the Asian country’s Ministry of Defense. China's participation will take place between August 30 and September 5 and is part of the bilateral agreement between the two countries, according to Moscow. The activity is called “Vostok” and takes place annually and includes participations from India, Belarus, Mongolia and Tajikistan. (UOL)

August 17st – Wednesday

• A North Korea and Donetsk, a Russian-backed separatist region of Ukraine, will develop “equally beneficial bilateral cooperation”, as the Donetsk leader said in a letter to Kim Jong Un, the supreme North Korean political authority. (The Guardian*)
• Os Leaders of Ukraine, Turkey and the UN are expected to meet to review the grain export deal in Lviv, western Ukraine, on Thursday (17) . UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan will also discuss “the need for a political solution to this conflict” and the situation at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the door said. -UN spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric. (The Guardian*)
• The first grain export ship from Ukraine arrived in Syria this Wednesday (17). The trip was part of an agreement and its purpose was to provide food aid to Africa. (Reuters*)
• Russian forces launched missile attacks in Odesa region, reports say. A military representative from the city, which is Ukraine's most populous, said a recreation center was destroyed and three people were injured. In a Telegram post, he said the damage was caused by two enemy rockets. (The Guardian*)
• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, called on Latin America this Wednesday to “disseminate the truth” about the Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory, in a videoconference with the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, in Santiago. See more about the declaration:

August 16th – Tuesday

• Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of seeking to “prolong” the conflict in Ukraine and “destabilizing” the world with the recent “adventure” of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, in Taiwan. “And they act in the same way, instigating potential conflict in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America,” Putin said at the International Security Conference in Moscow. (UOL)
• The Russian Army announced that new explosions occurred at Russian military bases located in Crimea this Tuesday morning (16). Read more on the O Povo website. According to the agency, which did not identify those responsible, “civil infrastructures, such as a power station, a railway and several houses, were damaged”. According to the governor of Crimea, who went to the scene, two civilians were injured and the residents are being taken to the neighboring municipality.
• The US launched an intercontinental missile. The action is part of a military test that started from California. The US Air Force did not inform the missile's target, and said it was not a response to a specific global event. The test was carried out two weeks after tensions between China and the US increased over Taiwan. (360º power)
• A company Energoatom, which operates Ukraine's nuclear power plants, reported an “unprecedented” cyber attack against its website. The operator held Russia responsible for the action and guaranteed that the functioning of the portal was not disrupted. (UOL)
• The first ship chartered by the World Food Program departed from Ukraine. Understand:

August 15th – Monday

• Russian President Vladmir Putin has signaled that he wants to strengthen ties with North Korea. He wrote to North Korean leader Kim Pyongyang on the day of North Korea's liberation, stating that expanding the relationship between the two countries would be of common benefit and would help strengthen security and stability on the Korean peninsula and Northwest Asia. The information was released by North Korea's KCNA news agency.
• The first United Nations ship to transport Ukrainian grain to Africa is ready to disembark. It carries 23 thousand tons of wheat and is heading to Ethiopia, according to a report from Ukraine's infrastructure minister. The shipment is part of a July agreement made between Kyiv and Moscow and brokered by the UN and Turkey.
• In the state of Kharkiv, Ukraine, a bomber left five people injured and two in serious condition, according to a government official. According to the statement, medical services continue to work in the affected locations.
• With winter approaching, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that everything possible will be done “to keep houses warm”, but there is a risk of terrorist attacks on hospitals and gas stations, which would harm gas distribution. He warns that the population needs to prepare for “different scenarios”, in addition to gathering blankets and warm clothes to protect themselves at home.

August 14th – Sunday

• Residents of the region where the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is located reported new bombings. While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claims that these are Russian intimidations, the pro-Russian authorities who occupy the plant say that Kiev is behind the attacks. A week ago, Russia and Ukraine accused each other of launching bombers against Zaporizhzhia, where there is radioactive waste. The first of these occurred on August 5th.

August 13th – Saturday

• Ukraine and Russia accused each other this Saturday of attacks against the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, which is occupied by Moscow troops and has been the scene of clashes for a week. “Reduce your presence on the streets of Enerhodar. We have received news of new provocations by the Russian occupiers,” he wrote in Telegram the Ukrainian nuclear agency Energoatom, which published a message from a local leader in the city of Enerhodar (controlled by Kiev), close to the nuclear plant. “According to residents' statements, there are new shellings in the vicinity of Zaporizhzhia. “The interval between the exit and the fall of the projectiles is 3 to 5 seconds”, added the agency in the message. In turn, Russian-installed occupation authorities in parts of southern Ukraine have accused Kiev of being behind the attacks. (with AFP)

August 12th – Friday

• ABUSE: Adults and children with disabilities have become forgotten victims of the Ukrainian War, according to the BBC. Since February 24, when Russia invaded the country, people living with mental health conditions and/or have become more subject to abuse and rights violations from both neglectful families and foster care institutions.
  The BBC recorded the story of 5 Ukrainian orphanages where some of them live tied up and in cribs for years. Ukraine has the highest number of children in institutions in Europe. Today, many are there “just to survive”, as shown in another BBC report. During the war, the government's order to transfer children from orphanages to families did not include those with disabilities and, although the Ukrainian government has admitted there are problems in the institutional system, plans for change are stuck amid the conflict.
• BURIALS: Ukrainian city authorities who suffered massacre more than 4 months ago (G1) began to bury the first of 50 bodies of unidentified citizens (AFP). 458 civilians were killed in the city of Bucha, according to its deputy mayor. The city, which became known as “martyr city of Ukraine“, is close to the capital Kiev, and was occupied by Russian forces for more than a month between March and April this year.

August 11th – Thursday

• CHARGES: Russia attacked the plant again Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which is the largest in all of Europe. Volodomir Zelensky, Ukrainian president, stated that this is “nuclear blackmail”. A UN asked the immediate suspension of military activity near the plant, which can generate a “catastrophe”.
  

Ukraine says Russian attack damaged nuclear plant sensors

A International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) asked that the countries involved in the conflict control of the nuclear plant “as soon as possible” to avoid even greater damage. In response, Moscow claimed it was an accident, but satellite images suggest the attacks may have been intentional. Russian forces have maintained control of the Ukrainian plant since March 4, shortly after their entry into the country began.

• EVACUATION: On the 78th day of the conflict, the United Nations (UN) announced the second evacuation of civilians from the city of Mariupol, in Ukraine, which Russia claims to have already conquered.
• RELIEF: The payment of 20 billions of dollars that correspond to the Ukrainian external debt will be frozen until 2024. Creditor countries the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan and the United States agreed to postpone the collection of interest in view of the Economic instability that takes place in the country after the Russian invasion. Moscow said the country's action amounts to xenophobia.
• TERRORIST: Russia was declared a “state sponsor of terrorism” by the parliament of Letonia, which calls on other countries to adopt the same measure and for the European Union to stop issuing tourist visas to Russians and Belarusians. The lawmakers also stated that “Russia’s violence committed against civilians” is a “genocide".

10 August - Wednesday

• ORDER: The G7, a group of the most industrialized countries on the planet, criticized this Wednesday the occupation of Zaporizhzhia NPP and called on Russia to return full control of the plant to Ucrania. Ukrainian employees at the plant “must be able to carry out their tasks without threats or pressure. Russia's continued control of the center puts the region in danger,” say the foreign ministers of the group's member countries.

• EAST: At least six people died and three others were injured this Wednesday (10) in a Russian bombing of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, close to the eastern front, according to the regional government. “Twelve residential buildings were damaged and four burst into flames,” said Pavlo Kirilenko, governor of Donetsk.

• CRIMEA: Ukraine attacked a Russian air base in Crimea (UOL), a country that has been annexed to Russian territory since 2014 and is on the front line of the current conflict. The bombing scared tourists staying at seaside resorts, which were shared in videos on social media.

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