[Korrespondent] 22:57 On Tuesday, September 6, the Director General of the IAEA will publish a report on the safety and situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant after the mission's visit to the station, the organization said. Also tomorrow, the IAEA will inform the UN Security Council about the results of the mission.
22:12 Zelensky, in an evening video message, thanked the fighters of "one of our rocket artillery brigades, who, with their accurate fire, destroyed exactly the Russian warehouse from which the invaders took S-300 missiles to bomb Kharkiv." "Good MLRS thing. Thank you, our heroes!" - said the president.
21:48 Over the past few weeks, and especially days, more and more residents of Energodar are leaving the city and trying to travel to the territory controlled by Ukraine. At the same time, the number of ZNPP employees who want to quit is growing, according to the GUR MOU. A certain zone of "information darkness" remains the ZNPP crisis center, into which the occupiers have not yet allowed representatives of the IAEA. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, "they have something and someone to hide there."
20:59 Three Bayraktar TB2 drones arrived in Ukraine, for which Serhiy Prytula's fund raised funds, and the Turkish company Baykar Makina decided to donate them for free, the company's CEO said.
20:55 The Russians attacked an oil depot in the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnipropetrovsk region with two missiles, the State Emergency Service reports. A strong fire broke out at the site, information about the victims and the extent of the destruction is being clarified.
20:24 As of the beginning of September, 326 billion dollars of direct damage from Russia's aggression has already been verified, Shmyhal said. According to him, 105 billion of this amount is a verified amount, which is necessary for the restoration of various facilities. The prime minister added that $17 billion is needed for a quick recovery, of which Ukraine will receive $3.4 billion this year, and the rest in 2023.
20:10 The Ukrainian military repelled offensive attempts by the Russians in the areas of nine settlements. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine achieved tactical success near Kramatorsk, the General Staff reports in the evening summary .
20:03 In the occupied Melitopol, over the past few days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed two military bases of the Russian Federation, military equipment and damaged a training ground, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said on the air of the telethon: "In the past few days alone, two military bases have been destroyed. One is outside the city , 10 km. There was a cluster of equipment and even a training ground, and it was damaged. And the second is a military base that they tried to place on our military airfield."
Fedorov also said that at present the captured part of the Zaporozhye region is de-energized. This is the second outage in the last week - the first time the city has been without power for four hours.
19:34 The Russians turned off the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, which led to a blackout of part of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
19:18 Putin will instruct the Cabinet of Ministers to provide labor guarantees to citizens who wish to volunteer to participate in a "special operation" in Ukraine, Peskov said. Amendments to the legislation should provide, for example, the possibility of a long vacation while maintaining the current position of a potential volunteer.
18:55 Any repairs to the power lines at the Zaporozhye NPP are currently impossible, since hostilities are underway around the plant, Energy Minister German Galushchenko said: “As soon as the main part of the IAEA mission left the ZNPP, the station was de-energized again. The last line that connected it with the power system of Ukraine - a 330 kV power transmission line ZATES - Ferrosplavnaya, - was disconnected due to a fire that arose as a result of shelling.
18:26 There was a loud explosion in Mariupol around 17:50, Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko said. According to representatives of local resistance, one occupier has been eliminated.
18:09 The Russians announced the Ukrainian shelling of the special building of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, a container with distilled water was also damaged in the immediate vicinity of the second power unit. In addition, they say about a rocket attack on a mill in Tavriysk near Novaya Kakhovka, as a result of which five people are allegedly seriously injured.
17:53 Zelensky said that he had a final conversation with Johnson: "On behalf of the entire Ukrainian people, he thanked for personal courage, integrity and outstanding contribution to countering Russian aggression. I look forward to working with a great friend of Ukraine in a new status."
17:47 EU stockpiles of weapons are depleted, Borrell said: "The military stocks of most member states were, I would not say, depleted, but depleted to a large extent, because we provide a lot of potential for Ukrainians." At the same time, he called on the EU countries to better coordinate their spending on military equipment and replenish the stock: "The best way to replenish is to do it together. It will be cheaper."
Borrell also expressed regret that the EU missed the opportunity to start training the Ukrainian military a year ago: "Unfortunately, we did not do this, and today we regret it. We regret that in August last year we did not follow this request."
17:28 The EU will support Ukraine, despite any blackmail from Russia, Borrell said. He also stressed the need for the withdrawal of the Russian military from the entire territory of Ukraine, including from the occupied territories.
17:13 During a meeting with Borrell, Shmyhal discussed military support for Ukraine: "Ukraine is interested in your initiative to create an EU military support mission for Ukraine as part of a joint security and defense policy. Its main task should be to organize basic and special training for Ukrainian military personnel. The structures of Ukraine and the EU should jointly work on this issue for the speedy deployment of the mission."
17:08 The Rada Committee supported the draft law on the military registration of women on a voluntary basis. The document has already been prepared for consideration in the first reading.
17:04 Podolyak urged residents of the occupied territories, including Crimea, to follow the announcements of the authorities regarding compliance with recommendations during de-occupation activities: "In particular, now equip a shelter, stock up on enough water and charge power banks."
16:52 The head of the Vinnitsa OVA, Sergei Borzov, said that air defense is working in the region, and urged them to stay in shelters.
16:50 Zelensky said that he had held "substantive more than an hour and a half talks" with Macron: "I informed my French colleague about the situation at the front and the course of countering Russian aggression. We coordinated further defense support from France. We exchanged assessments of the results of the IAEA mission at the ZNPP."
16:46 As part of the counteroffensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated one settlement in the Donetsk region and two more in the southern regions of the country, Zelensky said in an address to the Ukrainians. The president did not specify which settlements he was talking about, but the day before, the Office of the President confirmed numerous reports about the liberation of Vysokopolye in the Kherson region. There is also information about the release of Ozerny on the Seversky Donets. For more details, see the material Successes of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .
16:42 NATO, at the urgent request of Reznikov, called on member countries to provide winter equipment and clothing to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, writes Spiegel. According to the publication, Reznikov wrote a letter to Stoltenberg at the end of July, in which he called for the urgent delivery of winter clothes and winter tents for 200,000 Ukrainian soldiers. Since then, NATO countries have searched their warehouses for affordable items.
The USA, Canada, Sweden and Finland have already promised supplies that will cover 50% of the request. However, the search is complicated by the fact that stocks of winter equipment in most countries are reserved for the soldiers of their own armies, and that winter clothing is a popular and scarce commodity on the world market.
16:26 Experts from EU countries will discuss the introduction of a price maximum for Russian gas on September 7, writes Bloomberg.
15:47 Ukraine can oust Russian gas from Europe, Shmyhal said following a meeting with Vice President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic in Brussels: "Electricity exports from Ukraine can replace significant volumes of gas imports from Russia. He also raised the issue of increasing the opportunities for exporting electricity from Ukraine in the EU. Now the trading capacity is 300 MW, while our export potential is up to 2000 MW. We look forward to increasing the volume of electricity exports and we will be grateful for the support of the European Commission." The Prime Minister also noted that Ukraine has the largest gas storages and can become Europe's "gas safe".
15:36 In the last three days, Russian troops continue intensive shelling of the territory around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. As a result, the power transmission lines 750 kV ZAES - Dneprovskaya, 330 kV ZATES - Kakhovskaya and 330 kV power lines ZATES - Melitopol were damaged and disconnected. The remaining lines were damaged even earlier. According to Energoatom, on September 5, as a result of a fire that occurred due to shelling, the 330 kV power line ZATES - Ferrosplavnaya was disconnected, that is, the last line connecting the ZNPP / ZaTPS node with the energy system of Ukraine. As a result, power unit No. 6 was unloaded and disconnected from the network , which now feeds its own needs at ZNPP.
14:44 Liz Truss will become the new prime minister of Great Britain - according to the results of the party vote, she was elected the leader of the ruling Conservative Party. She previously stated that she would have her first telephone conversation in her new position with Zelensky.
14:42 Ukraine has not yet received a nuclear engineering report on the results of the visit of the IAEA mission to the Zaporozhye NPP, Podolyak said: “We don’t understand if everything is normal there in terms of safety loops, reactor cooling, with personnel. We don’t seen in the report.
14:39 Ukrainian air defense shot down an X-59 cruise missile fired by an enemy fighter over Mykolaiv region, OK Pivden reported. Also, the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems fired three missiles at the industrial infrastructure of Nikolaev. Administrative buildings and residential buildings near the enterprise were damaged, people were not injured. Ukrainian forces attacked a pontoon crossing in the area of the Kakhovka bridge, as well as logistics and management facilities of the occupying forces.
14:32 The Russians fired at the Krivorozhsky district from Hurricanes. One person died in Apostolovo, at least three people were injured, all of them in serious condition, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
14:28 In Kamenka-Dniprovska, Vasilyevsky district, Zaporozhye region, a warehouse of pseudo-referendum ballots and an FSB base were destroyed, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports. As a result of the special operation, a number of objects that the invaders used as bases were destroyed and significantly damaged. Fires continue in several premises, which the occupiers cannot extinguish for a long time. In particular, the management of the State Treasury is on fire.
The warehouse where the ballots for the pseudo-referendum were stored was blown up by an explosion from inside the premises, all printed materials were destroyed. At the same time, the base of the Russian FSB unit, which was guarding the ballot warehouse, was destroyed. The exact number of dead and wounded is being specified. The survivors and the wounded are urgently evacuated in the direction of the Crimea.
In the city, the invaders imposed a strict curfew from 7:00. Military helicopters were seen over the city. As a result of the special operation, the civilian population was not injured, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense assured. Earlier today, the occupying "power" accused the Ukrainian side of shelling Kamenka-Dneprovskaya near Energodar.
14:17 Ukraine will receive 500 million euros from the EU to "reduce vulnerability and increase food security through support for the affected population and agricultural production." The corresponding document was signed on September 5 in Brussels.
13:52 The Kherson region is ready for a "referendum" on joining the Russian Federation, but because of the security situation, "a pause was taken," Kirill Stremousov, the "deputy head of the administration" of the occupied Kherson region, said. He added that Deputy Prime Minister Vereshchuk's warnings about punishment for the participants in the "referendum" would not interfere with its holding.
13:43 This afternoon, the occupiers again fired artillery at Zolochiv, Kharkiv region, two people were killed, the OVA reported.
13:40 In the Kremennaya Luhansk region, several buildings where the Russian military were stationed were destroyed as a result of a strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the losses are up to 400 personnel, about 100 pieces of equipment are out of order. He also stressed that the Izyum direction is a key stage in the decuperation of the Luhansk region.
Gaidai said that in the occupied cities, people turn to the occupation authorities about the restoration of houses, to which they say: "Yours will come soon and rebuild."
13:28 Peskov said that problems with the supply of gas via Nord Stream will persist until Western sanctions are lifted.
13:22 The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that male students who study abroad, but were unable to continue their studies on time due to the war, have the right to leave. To do this, you need to have a student card or a student visa; translated and notarized documents confirming studies at a foreign university; military registration documents with a record of granting a deferment from conscription and a certificate issued by the territorial recruitment and social support center for traveling abroad.
13:18 In Kiev, the police raided the establishments and handed over more than 100 subpoenas, said the head of the metropolitan police, Ivan Vyhovsky. According to him, no violations were recorded on the part of business entities, but administrative materials were compiled on citizens who were on the street during the curfew. Representatives of the military commissariats handed summons to 119 citizens in order to check their stay on the military register.
13:14 Residents of Crimea are leaving the peninsula, fearing being drafted into the Russian army on the eve of the autumn conscription campaign, Tamila Tasheva, permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, said: "Local residents leave through Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and other countries."
According to her, it is difficult to get out of the peninsula to the territories controlled by Ukraine through the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. And those residents of Crimea who still manage to travel to Zaporozhye, Odessa, Krivoy Rog or other Ukrainian cities can use evacuation trains.
12:50 The front line in Ukraine is 2,500 km, of which active hostilities continue for 1,300 km, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said: "On the entire front, we have a defense operation that provides for a set of actions, both offensive and defensive. Most active actions are taking place in the Donetsk direction, the Russians did not manage to capture the Donetsk region within the time frame set by Putin, so they stepped up."
At the same time, she stressed that there are “successful actions” in the Donetsk direction: “There are certain settlements in the Donbas and in the south that are coming under our control, de-occupation is taking place.” At the same time, Malyar added that the war is going on in dynamics - in some areas the Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing, while in others they are holding the line and fighting fierce battles with the invaders.
12:38 The "administration" of the occupied Nova Kakhovka reported about the shelling of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the air defense is allegedly working, and at night there were about eight missile raids on the city itself. Also, the occupying "authorities" accuse the Ukrainian side of shelling Kamenka-Dneprovskaya near Energodar.
12:23 In four months, people from 110 countries of the world have collected $180 million for Ukraine through the UNITED24 platform, Zelensky said. These funds were used to purchase, in particular, ambulances, demining equipment, reconnaissance drones and much more.
11:46 Energoatom confirmed that four of the six representatives of the IAEA inspection team completed their work at the Zaporozhye NPP and left the plant site. It is expected that two experts will continue to work at ZNPP on a full-time basis.
11:38 "Referendums" in the occupied territories of Ukraine will be held before the end of the year, Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andriy Turchak said.
11:35 In Bucha, the remains of at least two more people were found, whom the Russian military killed and burned in a garage, said Andrei Nebytov, head of the Kiev region police.
11:24 Internally displaced persons from Crimea and Sevastopol have the same right to financial assistance from the state as displaced persons from other occupied territories, the Ministry of Reintegration reported.
11:16 In the Lugansk region, the invaders are coming up with new ways to forcibly mobilize men. As the head of the OVA Sergey Gaidai said, in order to receive 10 thousand rubles for sending a child to school, the application must indicate the personal data of other family members. Thus, the occupiers identify men. In addition, at the enterprises of the "LPR" they set personal quotas for the call-up of contract servicemen. They promise an extraordinary vacation and the preservation of the workplace, they conduct "conversations" with those who disagree. And in the Svatovsky and Starobelsky districts, a forced replacement of car numbers was organized and, in parallel, a register of able-bodied men was carried out.
10:47 Zelensky said in an interview with ABC that he is not considering the option of a controlled shutdown of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, since it feeds two regions of Ukraine.
10:30 Four employees of the IAEA mission left ZNPP, two remained at the plant, Rosenergoatom said.
10:19 Shmygal offered Scholz options for the supply of German main battle tanks Leopard 2 to the Armed Forces of Ukraine - he himself told the dpa agency about this following a meeting in Berlin: "We discussed this. We even suggested how Germany could supply these tanks to Ukraine."
09:52 Russians at night fired at Nikolaev with S-300 rockets, the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich reported. There is a hit in an industrial enterprise on the outskirts of the city - production facilities and the roof of buildings are damaged. The roof in one of the private residential buildings was also damaged, previously without casualties.
09:30 Great Britain will significantly expand the training program for the Ukrainian military - we are talking about training tens of thousands of soldiers, writes Sky News. The duration of the combat course has been extended from three to five weeks. Since the start of the program in June, about 4,700 Ukrainian servicemen have been trained in the UK. In addition to the British, Ukrainians are taught by military instructors from eight other countries.
09:16 British intelligence believes that, despite the containment of Ukrainian offensive actions, Russia's main efforts in Ukraine almost certainly remain its own offensive operation in the Donbass. Its main directions are near Avdeevka and 60 km to the north around Bakhmut. On the Bakhmut direction, Russia has achieved the greatest success, its forces are still advancing at about one kilometer a week in the direction of Bakhmut.
The political goal of the operation in Donbass will almost certainly remain the capture of the entire Donetsk region, which will allow the Kremlin to announce the "liberation" of Donbass, analysts say. At the same time, Russia has repeatedly shifted the deadlines for completing this operation, which complicates plans to hold "referendums" on the annexation of the occupied territories.
09:00 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of September 5. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Donetsk direction.
- personnel - about 49,800 (+300) people liquidated,
- tanks - 2068 (+19),
- armored combat vehicles - 4459 (+29),
- artillery systems - 1157 (+10),
- MLRS - 294 (+0),
- air defense systems - 156 (+0),
- aircraft - 236 (+0),
- helicopters - 206 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 867 (+3),
- cruise missiles - 205 (+2),
- ships/boats - 15 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 3286 (+10),
- special equipment - 107 (+1).
08:37 In the Donetsk region, as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, three civilians were killed - two in Kurakhovo and one in Soledar. Three more people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
07:59 The Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully repelled the enemy's offensive in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions in the Donetsk region, the General Staff reports in the morning report .
07:52 The IAEA mission at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant will end on September 6, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the "administration" of the occupied region, said. According to him, "there is no clear understanding" yet whether IAEA representatives will remain at the NPP on a permanent basis.
06:31 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) confirms that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is developing noticeably in the south and east. In particular, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are moving in several directions in the western part of the Kherson region and have secured territory behind the Seversky Donets River in the Donetsk region. The speed of the counter-offensive is likely to change dramatically by the day as Ukrainian forces attempt to deprive the Russians of needed supplies, disrupt their command and control and weaken the morale of the invaders, analysts say.
According to ISW forecasts, the Russians will from time to time counterattack and retake part of the lost positions and launch fierce artillery and air attacks on the liberated settlements and the advancing Ukrainian troops.
Ukrainian forces have made significant progress to start eliciting "more realistic" comments from Russian bloggers who have so far "listened to the Kremlin's optimistic rhetoric," experts say.
03:49 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the "LPR", "DPR", Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have the right to seek help, including financial assistance, from Russia, "other countries and international organizations" in holding "referenda".
02:27 Operational command Pivden reported a rebellion of the "DPR" military from the 127th regiment of the 1st army corps. They refused to participate in the hostilities in Ukraine, in particular, due to unsatisfactory support: the personnel in the forward positions were left even without water. The special services of the occupying troops "have taken measures against the rebels, they have been taken out of their positions," the OK reported.