KYIV. Yesterday, Russian shelling of the front line in Ukraine, as well as the area around the Zaporozhye NPP. In his message yesterday, UN Representative Guterres urged Russia to allow IAEA inspectors to visit the Zaporozhye site, believing that putting the plant under Ukrainian control would be the safest option.

In Nikopol, on the right bank of the Dnieper, at a distance of about 100 km from Zaporozhye NPPGovernor Valentin Reznichenko said that early Thursday morning, three civilians were killed and nine wounded in a Russian artillery barrage that fired on the city with Grad multiple launch rocket launchers. In Donbass, 11 civilians have been killed in the last 24 hours, while Russian forces continued to shell the positions of the Ukrainian army until yesterday. According to defense analysts, the Russian army is preparing an attack on the city of Bakhmut and at the first stage seeks to capture neighboring Soledar.

cc The UN urged Moscow to allow IAEA inspectors to visit the Zaporozhye nuclear facilities.

At the same time, the Kiev government is greatly relieved by the decision of Ukraine’s creditors to accept Ukraine’s proposal to suspend payments on the country’s debt until 2024. A group of public and private lending institutions from France, the US, Germany, Japan and the UK accepted the proposal, which was supported by the G7 states.