Ukraine-Russia war latest: Fire at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant contained after explosions

Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies said on Saturday they had uncovered a major graft scheme that procured military drones. signal jamming systems at inflated prices, two days after the agencies’ independence was restored following major protests.

The independence of Ukraine’s anti-graft investigators. prosecutors, NABU and SAPO, was reinstated by parliament on Thursday after a move to take it away resulted in the country’s biggest demonstrations since Russia’s invasion in 2022.

In a statement published by both agencies on social media. NABU and SAPO said they had caught a sitting lawmaker, two local officials and an unspecified number of national guard personnel taking bribes. None of them were identified in the statement.

“The essence of the scheme was to conclude state contracts with ukraine-russia war latest: fire zaporizhzhia supplier companies at deliberately inflated prices. ” it said, adding that the offenders had received kickbacks of up to 30 per cent of a contract’s cost. Four people had been arrested.

“There can only be zero tolerance for corruption. clear teamwork to expose corruption and, as a result, a just sentence,” president Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram.

Mr Zelensky. who has far-reaching wartime presidential powers and still enjoys broad approval among Ukrainians, was forced into a rare political about-face when his attempt to bring NABU and SAPO under the control of his prosecutor-general sparked the first nationwide protests of the war.

He subsequently said that he had heard the people’s anger. and submitted a bill restoring the agencies’ former independence, which was voted through by parliament on Thursday.

Russian air defence units destroyed about 15 Ukrainian drones over Voronezh. the governor, Alexander Gusev, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

The overnight attack resulted in several homes. utility buildings catching fire from falling drone debris and a woman was injured, the governor of the southern Russian region said on Sunday.

“The threat of further drone attacks remains,” Mr Gusev said in the post early on Sunday.

Both sides deny targeting civilians in their strike in the war that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion. on Ukraine in February 2022.

Kyiv says that its attacks inside Russia are aimed at destroying infrastructure key to Moscow’s war efforts. are in response to Russia’s relentless strikes on Ukraine.

The Russian defence ministry said that its units destroyed 41 drones just ukraine-russia war latest: fire zaporizhzhia before midnight on Saturday over Russian regions bordering Ukraine. over the waters of the Black Sea.

A Ukrainian drone strike reportedly injured a woman. sparked multiple fires in Russia’s southern Voronezh region, the local governor said today.

Meanwhile, Russia launched a missile attack on Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian capital’s military administration.

Russia fired a missile at Kyiv early today. the city’s military administration said on Telegram.

Reuters witnesses described a loud explosion that shook ukraine-russia war latest: fire zaporizhzhia the capital shortly after midnight.

The strike comes just days after Russia carried out its deadliest aerial assault on Kyiv this year. which left at least 31 people dead, including five children, and wounded more than 150.

Vladimir Putin is not ready for serious negotiations on peace in Ukraine, UK foreign secretary David Lammy has said in an interview with The Guardian.

“My sober assessment is that Putin is not ready to seriously negotiate,” Mr Lammy told the outlet.

“He still has maximalist and imperialist ambitions. The battle Ukraine has fought, with UK, European and American support, is immense.”

The foreign secretary also spoke of his admiration of ukraine-russia war latest: fire zaporizhzhia the Ukrainian people.

“Even if the world left them behind. they’d still be waging a guerrilla war, such is their belief in their country. It’s deeply inspiring,” he said.

A fire that broke out near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after Ukrainian shelling has been brought under control, the Russian-installed administration of the Russia-held plant in Ukraine said on Saturday.

Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia plant in the first weeks of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Both sides have accused each ukraine-russia war latest: fire zaporizhzhia other of firing or taking other actions that could trigger a nuclear accident.

The plant’s administration said on Telegram that a civilian had been killed in the shelling. but that no plant employees or members of the emergency services had been injured.

The station, Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, is not operating but still requires power to keep its nuclear fuel cool.

The plant’s Russia-installed management said radiation levels remained within normal levels and the situation was under control.

Russia’s defence ministry said Russian forces had captured the village of Oleksandro-Kalynove in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Saturday

The battlefield report was not immediately verified.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday that its team at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) heard explosions. saw smoke coming from a nearby location.

The nuclear plant said one of its auxiliary facilities was attacked today, IAEA said in a statement.

“The auxiliary facility is located 1. 200 metres from the ZNPP’s site perimeter and the IAEA team could still see smoke from that direction in the afternoon,” the nuclear watchdog said.

Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken out following the huge Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian oil refinery.

The Ukrainian president received a report about the strikes from Vasyl Maliuk, the head of Ukraine’s security service.

“I am grateful for our special long-range operations on Russian territory,” he said.

“Each of them is tangible for the enemy. and our operations will continue – Russia is dragging out the war, so it will receive just responses.”