Russia-Ukraine struggle: Record of key occasions, day 169 | Russia-Ukraine struggle Information

Last updated Aug 11, 2022

Listed here are the important thing occasions on Thursday, August 11.

Preventing

Ukraine accused Russia of firing rockets from the captured Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, killing not less than 13 folks and wounding 10, within the information it will be dangerous for Ukraine to return hearth.
Russia launched 80 Grad rockets on the city of Marhanets throughout the Dnieper river from the nuclear plant on Tuesday, Valentyn Reznychenko, the governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk area stated, including that greater than 20 buildings had been broken.
Two US newspapers cited unnamed Ukrainian officers as saying the nation’s particular forces had carried out an assault on Tuesday on an airbase on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, destroying army plane.
Russian assaults on the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Bakhmut killed not less than six folks and wounded three others, the regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated.

The overseas ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) financial powers have known as on Moscow to right away return Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant to full Ukrainian management amid rising fears of a possible catastrophe.
China has accused america of being the “principal instigator” of the Ukraine disaster, saying Washington’s “final aim is to exhaust and crush Russia”.
Russian authorities raided the house of a former state TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova and detained her as a part of a prison investigation for allegedly spreading false details about the Russian armed forces, her lawyer stated on social media.
The Russian impartial information outlet Novaya Gazeta stated it had been fined 350,000 Russian roubles ($5,700) for “abusing media freedom”.

Ukraine’s abroad collectors backed its request for a two-year freeze on funds on virtually $20bn in worldwide bonds, a transfer that can permit it to keep away from a debt default.
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated the transfer will save the nation virtually $6bn, serving to stabilise its economic system and strengthen its military.
The second industrial ship to reach in a Ukrainian port because the begin of Russia’s invasion has docked within the port of Chornomorsk and is able to load grain, Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov stated.
Russians are snapping up Western style and furnishings this week as H&M and IKEA dump the final of their stock in Russia, shifting ahead with their exit from the nation after it despatched troops into Ukraine.