UKRAINE UPDATES | Russia said it was ready to discuss a prisoner swap with the United States in private, a day after a Russian court jailed US basketball star Brittney Griner for nine years for bringing cannabis oil into the country.
A man extinguishes a fire following shelling as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine August 6, 2022 in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.August 07 — 2022 — 13:15Pope Francis on Sunday welcomed the departure from Ukrainian Black Sea ports of the first ships carrying grain previously blockaded by Russia, saying the breakthrough could be a model for dialogue to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.
"This event presents itself as a sign of hope and my own heartfelt wish is that following this path, it will be possible to bring an end to the fighting and reach a just and lasting peace," he said. Ukraine's state nuclear power company Energoatom said on Sunday that a worker was wounded when Russian forces again shelled the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, on Saturday evening.
Shells hit a high-voltage power line on Friday at the nuclear facility, prompting its operators to disconnect a reactor despite no radioactive leak being detected.oth sides accused each other on Saturday of engaging in"nuclear terrorism". Ukraine's state nuclear power company Energoatom blamed Russia for the damage while Russia's defence ministry accused Ukrainian forces of shelling the plant.
Results of toxicological tests were not yet available but Chubais responded to treatment"so doctors are certain" they were dealing with Guillain-Barre, Italian daily La Repubblica reported on its website. The most powerful of a group of Russian economists who sought to cement the transition to capitalism after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Chubais sold off some of Russia's biggest industrial assets in the 1990s.Western governments are alarmed over Turkey's deepening ties with Russia
Long convoys of Russian military trucks, tanks, towed artillery and other weapons continue to move away from Ukraine's Donbas region and are headed southwest. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what President Vladimir Putin termed a “special military operation”, the conflict has settled into a war of attrition fought largely in Ukraine's east and south.
Grossi, who leads the United Nation's nuclear watchdog, urged all sides to exercise the “utmost restraint”. Ukraine's military said late on Saturday that Russian forces had shelled dozens of front-line towns and were trying to attack in six different areas in the Donetsk region, all of which failed to gain any territory and were held back by Ukrainian forces.Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday said that over the past week its forces had “achieved powerful results” in destroying Russia's logistics supplies and rear bases.
In a positive development, Ukraine is starting to resume grain exports, easing fears of a global food crisis, in an effort overseen by a Joint co-ordination Centre in Istanbul where Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and UN personnel are working.
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