A serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 10The IAEA reported that the director general of the agency, Rafael Grossi, will take part in a meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, where he will inform the UN Security Council about the preparation of an expert mission to the plant, which he intends to personally lead, the agency said. Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense spoke about Kyiv's plans to send SBU officers to Kharkov to carry out a punitive operation to identify citizens loyal to Russia who are planned to be tortured. In addition, the Swiss Foreign Ministry announced its agreement with Ukraine to represent the interests of Kyiv in the Russian Federation, but Moscow's consent has not yet been received. participation in the meeting of the UN Security Council convened by Russia on the Zaporizhzhya NPP. He also stressed that the position of Western countries on the situation around the Zaporizhzhya NPP is abnormal, and «the West, using its influence on Kyiv, could and should have called the Ukrainian side to order, called on it to stop shelling».
The world is on edge in the situation with the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the Foreign Ministry said. In addition, the permanent representative said that Ukrainian employees continue to work at the plant after it has passed under the control of the Russian Federation, and these people receive death threats by phone from the authorities in Kiev. He also noted that that the visit of the IAEA mission will give its staff an opportunity to see how Ukrainian personnel work and to make sure that there are no harassment of Ukrainian citizens who remained to work at the station. The IAEA confirmed on Wednesday that the head of the agency, Rafael Grossi, will address the UN Security Council on August 11 in connection with the situation at the Zaporozhye NPP.
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Rafael Grossi himself said that he would inform the UN Security Council about the preparation of a mission of experts to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which he intends to personally lead. The course of the operation Russian air defense systems shot down seven HIMARS missiles in the Kherson region and 9 drones over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. According to the defense department, up to 30 enemy servicemen and a warehouse with more than 6 thousand artillery shells of the Ukrainian 54th mechanized brigade in the DPR were destroyed by high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces. In addition, after the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the settlement of Peski (DPR), the Ukrainian 56th motorized infantry brigade lost its combat capability, up to 70% of its personnel were killed, according to a report from the ministry.
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According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian military, as part of a counter-battery fight, suppressed two Ukrainian platoons of Grad multiple launch rocket systems in the DPR. According to the military department, Russian aviation, missile forces and artillery hit five enemy command posts, including a nationalist formations «Aidar», destroyed seven ammunition depots. In addition, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed up to a hundred nationalists and more than 20 units of military equipment as a result of an attack on the Ukrainian 93rd mechanized brigade in the Andreevka region of the Kharkov region, and Russian Aerospace Forces fighters destroyed three Ukrainian military aircraft, the defense ministry informed. In total, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, during the special military operation, the Russian military destroyed 267 Ukrainian aircraft.
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On Wednesday evening, the head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that the Kyiv regime plans to send SBU officers to Kharkiv to conduct a punitive operation to identify citizens loyal to Russia who are planned to be tortured. According to Major General Mizintsev, Ukrainian militants have equipped new firing positions and ammunition depots in residential buildings in different settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic. He also said that local residents are forbidden to leave their homes and they are not evacuated, and all their attempts to independently evacuate to safe areas are severely suppressed. The Ministry of Defense also reported that, despite the obstacles, Russia managed to evacuate from dangerous areas of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR more than 3.25 million people, almost 27 thousand per day. According to the information of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, Moscow continues to send humanitarian aid, in particular, over the past day, the Russian Federation held four actions in the DPR, LPR, Kharkiv and Kherson regions, during which 470.3 tons of humanitarian aid were transferred to the civilian populationInternational AgendaSwitzerland and Ukraine agreed on that the interests of Ukraine in the Russian Federation are represented by Switzerland, the Swiss diplomatic department reported. The parties are waiting for the consent of the Russian side. At the same time, the ministry emphasized that Switzerland, from the very beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine, offered its good offices, both as a negotiating platform and expert support during possible negotiations.
Bern and Kyiv completed negotiations on representing Ukraine's interests in Russia