On the 190th day of the war, tensions are rising. The visit of a group of UN experts to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is scheduled to begin on Thursday. Ukraine bombed two strategic bridges in southern Kherson to isolate Russian troops stationed on the right bank of the Dnieper, and the Americans say the Russian army may have ended up recruiting prisoners.

The main thing for Thursday, the 190th day of the war in Ukraine, LIVETEXT:

09:40Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia will do everything to protect the interests of the Russian-speaking population of the Republic of Moldova. At the same time, at the forum, he made several allusions to the Chisinau government, reports agora.md, which is quoted by news.ro.

08:54US conducts combat simulations with Ukraine before counteroffensive and proposes more limited mission – CNN

08:50The Russians are bombing the agreed route of the IAEA mission at the NPP near Zaporizhzhia, Oleksandr Starukh, head of the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration. “The UN group cannot continue the trip for security reasons,” he also said, Ukrinform reports.

08:35President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the participants of the Venice Film Festival, noting that Russia wants the world to make three mistakes: get used to war, endure war and forget about war, but this intention should never succeed.

“I appreciate the opportunity to speak today and tell our story. Tell about Ukraine, its people and the war that Russia has been waging against us for 189 days. A story that goes beyond humanity and common sense. A drama based on real events. Transferred into reality by real savages, murderers, torturers, terrorists. A tragedy accompanied not by Morricone’s brilliant music, but by the eerie sounds of explosions, gunshots and air raid sirens. Horror, not 120 minutes, but 189 days. 189 days of war, which continues in Ukraine and which Europe and the world are tired of. Russia demands this. This is what Russia wants. A primitive plot in three acts for the world to make three dramatic mistakes. To get used to war. Endure the war. Forget the war. This intention should never succeed,” Zelenskyy said.

After his speech, the names of the children who died in the war in Ukraine, the firstborn of the 4-year-old girl Liza, who was killed in Vinnytsia on July 14, began to sound on the screen. “Will it go?” he wrote on the screen, taking stock of the children killed and wounded in the war. “The answer to this question today depends on all of us,” Volodymyr Zelenskyi said.

Explosions in Energodar before the visit of UN experts to the NPP

08:32 According to Ukrainian officials quoted by The Guardian, on Thursday morning, Russian troops attacked the city of Energodar, which is home to the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.

The Ukrainian operator of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant “Energoatom” reported that around 5:00 a.m. the city was continuously bombed.

According to the mayor of Energodar, Dmytro Orlov, “several civilian objects” were damaged, and there are victims. The mayor also says that Russian forces are using mortars, automatic weapons and rockets.

07:55“If earlier Russians spent 35 euros to get a visa, now this amount will increase to 80 euros. And the issuing period will exceed 30 days. Movement in the Schengen area may be restricted if a number of countries do not want to see this. Russians on their territories,” – said Yury Barzykin, vice-president of the tourist unions, Pravda.ro reports. Even without strengthening the visa regime, Russians have already stopped going to Europe, he added. “Today there is practically no tourist flow. Because there is no direct transport connection, payment systems do not work, there is no proper of legal protection. In the EU, the number of our diplomatic consular institutions has significantly decreased. There are a number of other problems that make it extremely problematic to travel to Europe for the purpose of tourism,” added Barzykin

07:24The Russians are concentrating their efforts on establishing full control over the territory of the Donetsk region, as well as maintaining the captured areas of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya and Mykolaiv regions, the General Staff of Ukraine reported on Thursday. cites Ukrinform

06:59According to the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, as of August 31, 31,059 crimes of aggression and war crimes were registered, of which 29,877 were related to violations of the laws of war and 30 were related to war propaganda. Also, 14,488 crimes against national security were registered, of which 10,074 were related to violations of the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, 1,631 were treason, 2,070 were collaborationism, 150 were aiding the aggressor state, and 64 were sabotage.

01:42Russia warns the EU about the “consequences” of suspending the visa agreement

“Violation, circumvention or revocation by the EU of the visa facilitation agreement concluded with Russia will not remain without consequences. We ourselves will decide whether the measures will be symmetric, asymmetric or those that the EU does not expect,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleksandr Hrushko told RIA Novosti. “If Brussels decides to shoot itself in the foot again, then that’s their choice,” he added.

01:15Russia keeps three ships armed with 20 Kalibr missiles in the Black Sea.

00:46 ​The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine asks residents of Crimea to provide information about bases and movements of Russian troops

23:54German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks Christians to distance themselves from the Russian Church, which has sided with the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine

10:50 in the eveningTwo planes with artillery ammunition for Ukraine took off from Spain

h2: Synthesis of the last 24 hours of the war:

• Ukraine’s counteroffensive to return Kherson did not stop and did not fail, said the adviser to the President of Ukraine. “The fact that we have not yet taken Kherson does not mean that the operation in the south has stalled or failed,” Oleksiy Arestovich said in a video message posted on Telegram on Thursday morning. “It is being conducted as planned. We are destroying the material and technical support of the enemy, air defense systems, fuel and ammunition depots.”

• Ukraine bombed two strategic bridges in southern Kherson to isolate Russian troops stationed on the right bank of the Dnieper, Arestovich added in a message posted on Telegram early Thursday.

• Uncertainty hung over the inspectors’ planned visit to the Zaporizhzhya NPP. The UN team arrived there on Wednesday and the inspection could last more than a day, although Russian authorities said on Wednesday that the team would only have access for one day.

• The Russian military may recruit convicts into its ranks, a US official said on Wednesday, adding that the Russian Defense Ministry is looking to recruit personnel “in particular by forcing wounded soldiers to return to combat and by purchasing personnel from private security guards.”

• Zelenskyi addressed the audience at the Venice Film Festival, describing Russia’s war against Ukraine as “a primitive plot in three acts for the world to make three dramatic mistakes: get used to war, endure war, forget war.” Zelensky urged those present “not to be silent” and “not to remain neutral” in the face of war.

• Russia has stopped supplying gas to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, citing the need for repairs. The German government has denied the claim, saying Nord Stream is “fully operational” and there are no technical problems.

• The EU has agreed to suspend a deal with Moscow on tourist visas to reduce the number of Russian citizens coming for holiday and shopping. Zelensky welcomed this step

• The U.S. Department of Justice said the U.S. has seized a $45 million Lukoil jet, although the plane is now believed to be in Russia. The plane was reportedly flying to and from Russia in violation of US Commerce Department sanctions.