Russia’s war against Ukraine and all of free Europe began with Crimea and must end with the liberation of Crimea, Volodymyr Zelenskyi said, asserting that the presence of Russian occupiers on the peninsula is a threat to all of Europe. Russian troops, which occupied the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, are preparing to connect it to Crimea, the Ukrainian operator Energoatom has warned. Instead, several powerful explosions occurred in Novofedorivka in western Crimea.

The main thing for Tuesday, the 168th day of the war in Ukraine:

07:24Russian troops occupying the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia are preparing to connect it with Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, and harm it by reorienting electricity production, Ukrainian operator Energoatom warned on Tuesday.

07:15President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi declares that Russia’s war against Ukraine and all of free Europe began with Crimea and must end with the liberation of Crimea, claiming that the presence of Russian occupiers on the peninsula is a threat to all of Europe and global stability.

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• Kilometer-long queues for food and insufficient portions in the south of Ukraine
• The Kremlin to countries that restrict the entry of Russian guests: “Let them come to their senses”
• National minorities in the Russian army began to speak their native language in order not to be bombarded by Ukrainians
• Chinese hackers allegedly attacked the Russian OPC (Kaspersky)
• The Ukrainian military struck what seems to be the longest strike to date on Russian-controlled regions, CNN notes