Russian drones were launched over Kyiv on Thursday evening, the fourth such attack in as many days, with residents of the capital hearing gunfire and explosions from anti-aircraft guns and at least one drone being shot down.

Ukrainian soldiers near the Bakhmut Front Photo: Anatoly STEPANOV / AFP / Profimedia

Basic information about the war in Ukraine, day 436, TEXT:

08:13 Record water levels could destroy a large dam in southern Ukraine and damage parts of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a Russian official told the TASS news agency on Thursday.

Adviser to the CEO of Rosenergoatom, Renat Karchaa, said that in the event of a breach of the dam in Nova Kakhovka, the power supply cables of the Zaporizhzhya plant’s pumping stations will be flooded. “This (will create) functional problems for the operation of the station and risks for nuclear safety,” he said (Reuters).

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A brief summary of recent events:

  • On Thursday evening, Kyiv authorities declared a state of alarm in Kyiv and its surroundings. Residents of the capital, who turned to bomb shelters, said that after the alarm was announced, the drones arrived faster than usual. Reuters staff heard repeated and louder gunfire and explosions near the city center.
  • Russia said the US was behind an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin on Wednesday night aimed at killing President Putin. The United States has dismissed Russia’s accusations as false. Ukraine also denies its involvement.
  • China calls for calm and moderation after drone attacks on the Kremlin.
  • In the main areas of the front line in the east and south of Ukraine, almost 50 attacks by the Russian Federation were repelled, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Thursday evening. According to him, the heaviest battles are taking place in Bakhmut and Mariintsa.
  • Technical personnel from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations will meet on Friday to discuss an agreement to export Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea, Turkey’s defense minister said.
  • During a visit to Brazil, the US ambassador to the UN said that she calls on the government to involve Ukraine in any attempts to negotiate an end to the war. She referred to comments by President Lula da Silva, who called on the West to stop arming Ukraine to allow peace talks to begin.
  • Putin must be held accountable for his war in Ukraine, Zelensky said in The Hague, calling for a war crimes tribunal separate from the International Criminal Court.
  • The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, said that the Transnistrian region, which is not under the control of Chisinau’s authorities, and the territory of which is occupied by the Russian army, forces Ukraine to keep troops on the border with the Republic of Moldova.
  • US Ambassador to Russia Lynn Tracy visited American citizen Paul Whelan on Thursday in a prison in eastern Russia, where he is being held after being sentenced to 16 years in prison for espionage.
  • ​A missile detection system developed by Israel is being tested in Kyiv, which will give Ukrainians more time to take cover from Russian missile attacks.
  • The Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday that the mayor of Odesa, Gennady Trukhanov, who has been in office since 2014, was detained on suspicion of corruption.
  • A new hallucinatory moment on Russian television: Andriy Bezrukov, a former Russian intelligence officer who worked in the West for more than two decades, called on Moscow to take a decisive decision on Transnistria.
  • Moscow announced on Thursday the development of an attack drone called “Upiór” (Undead), which it plans to use against Ukrainian tanks.
  • Russia plans to resume the “Friendship Games” after a 40-year hiatus, Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matitsyn told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.

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