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New video shows massive detonation astatine gathering seemingly occupied by Russian troops successful Soledar
From CNN's Tim Lister, Josh Pennington and Julia Kesaieva
New video from the town of Soledar successful Donetsk region shows a monolithic detonation astatine a gathering that appears to person been a structure for Russian troops.
The video shows between a twelve and 20 soldiers walking on a railroad way earlier turning on a thoroughfare connected the bluish outskirts of the town, which Russia connected Friday claimed to person taken, though Ukraine denied that.
After the soldiers scope a gathering with a distinctive greenish roof, the detonation destroys the building, with debris flying upwards. The video has been geolocated by CNN.
A longer mentation of the video has been posted by a Ukrainian worker successful the area.
The soldier, with the codename Madiar, is simply a commandant successful a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance unit. He provides a commentary implicit the video, saying: "There are 10 of them. There are 10 much here. And each of them evidently going successful the aforesaid direction. They are settling in. In groups of 20+ people. In the houses. On the outskirts of Soledar.
"In the greeting we've been watching this place," helium says. "There was immoderate benignant of enactment there. Something was being loaded and unloaded."
He describes the gathering with the greenish extortion arsenic "some benignant of a office for them."
Madiar says determination should beryllium astatine slightest 25 Russian soldiers there.
He past asks: "What should we do? HIMARS oregon MLRS?" earlier the detonation is seen.
HIMARS artillery provided by the United States has proved an close and almighty limb for Ukrainian forces.
Europe gears up to nonstop Western tanks to Ukraine
From CNN's Luke McGee, Saskya Vandoorne, Sebastian Shukla and Lindsay Isaac
A Ukrainian vessel fires astatine Russian positions adjacent Kreminna, Luhansk Oblast, connected Thursday. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images)The Western alliance’s effect to Russia’s penetration of Ukraine received a changeable successful the limb this week arsenic aggregate European nations for the archetypal clip answered President Volodymyr Zelensky’s longstanding telephone to proviso modern conflict tanks to Kyiv.
France and Poland have pledged to soon nonstop tanks for the Ukrainian subject to usage successful its efforts to support itself from Russia. The UK and Finland are considering pursuing suit.
The moves person piled unit connected Germany, which past week said it would transportation infantry warring vehicles to Kyiv but is yet to perpetrate to sending tanks.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has insisted that immoderate specified program would request to beryllium afloat coordinated with the full of the Western alliance, including the United States.
Western officials told CNN said that the determination by immoderate countries but not others to nonstop much tanks was portion of a broader appraisal of what was happening connected the crushed successful Ukraine.
NATO allies person spent caller weeks talking successful item astir which countries are champion placed to supply circumstantial types of assistance, beryllium it subject instrumentality oregon money.
Powerful explosions heard successful Kyiv
From CNN's Denis Lapin and Tim Lister
A presumption of a crater near by a Russian rocket successful the colony of Kopyliv, Kyiv region connected Saturday. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)Several almighty explosions were heard successful the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, connected Saurday morning, though the nonstop locations could not beryllium instantly determined, with heavy fog implicit the city.
Kyiv City Military Administration said Saturday: "There is an onslaught connected the capital."
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the Office of the President, said connected Telegram: "Missile onslaught connected captious infrastructure facilities. Details are being clarified."
Kyiv's mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, said the strikes had occurred connected the city's eastbound bank, "Explosions successful Dniprovskyi district. All services are heading to the scene. Stay successful shelters!" helium wrote connected Telegram.
Klitschko added that debris from 1 incoming rocket fell connected a non-residential country successful the city's westbound slope of the capital, known arsenic Holosiivskyi district. "There were nary casualties," helium said.
IAEA manager volition instal information experts astatine each atomic plants successful Ukraine during travel to state adjacent week
From CNN’s Vasco Cotovio
The cooling towers of the Rivne atomic works successful Varash, Ukraine. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post/Getty Images)The caput of the International Atomic Energy Agency volition question to Ukraine adjacent week to acceptable up a changeless beingness of information experts astatine each of the country's atomic powerfulness plants.
"Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi volition beryllium successful Ukraine adjacent week to found a continuous beingness of atomic information and information experts astatine each the country’s atomic powerfulness facilities, importantly stepping up the efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to assistance forestall a atomic mishap during the existent subject conflict," according to the connection from the UN's atomic watchdog.
While the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia atomic plant already has IAEA squad members connected location, experts volition besides beryllium stationed astatine the Khmelnitsky atomic powerfulness works successful occidental Ukraine successful "the coming days." The IAEA said Grossi volition question to the South Ukraine and Rivne atomic powerfulness plants — arsenic good arsenic to the Chernobyl tract — to acceptable up the missions of 2 IAEA members astatine each site.
Grossi volition besides conscionable with elder Ukrainian authorities officials successful Kyiv to sermon mounting up a repeatedly called-for nuclear information and information extortion portion astir Zaporizhzhia. Kyiv has accused Russia of utilizing the works arsenic screen to motorboat attacks, knowing that Ukraine could not instrumentality occurrence without risking hitting 1 of the plant’s six reactors. Moscow, meanwhile, claimed Ukrainian troops were targeting the site.
According to the statement, the Zaporizhzhia plant’s past remaining 330 kilovolt backup powerfulness enactment has been reconnected to the plant, aft experiencing disconnections successful the past week.
Grossi also "reiterated his superior concerns astir the unit that ZNPP unit are facing, with imaginable consequences for atomic information and security," according to the statement.
“The reduced ZNPP staffing levels combined with intelligence accent owed to the on-going subject struggle and the lack of household members who fled the country person created an unprecedented concern that nary NPP unit should person to endure,” helium said.
Ukraine says warring continues successful Soledar arsenic Russia claims it is successful control. Catch up connected the latest.
From CNN Staff
The Russian Defense Ministry is crediting the backstage subject institution Wagner for spearheading the "direct assault" connected Soledar after days of squabbles. While Russia said it is successful power of the metropolis successful eastbound Ukraine, officials successful Kyiv accidental warring is ongoing.
An planetary squad of atomic information experts will question to Ukraine next week to found a beingness astatine each of the country's atomic powerfulness plants.
Catch up connected the latest developments successful the war:
- Kremlin claims Soledar: Russia's Ministry of Defense has claimed that forces took control of the municipality of Soledar successful eastbound Ukraine. It is of small strategical value, experts say, but would correspond a symbolic triumph for Vladimir Putin. But a Ukrainian authoritative has said that this is "not true." Serhiy Cherevaty, spokesperson for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, told Ukrainian outlet RBC-Ukraine that "fighting is going connected successful the city."
- On the ground: Various units of the Ukrainian subject elaborate the "fierce fighting" happening successful Soledar. Ukraine’s General Staff said troops are "holding a dense and coagulated defence line" portion coming nether "non-stop" attacks from battle unites of a backstage subject company, Wagner.
- Importance of Soledar: Two days aft citing lone regular Russian forces for the onslaught on Soledar, the Russian Defense Ministry connected Friday credited Wagner for spearheading the "direct assault." This is the latest successful the back-and-forth betwixt the Ministry of Defense and the mercenary group. Moscow has struggled for months to onslaught Bakhmut from the east, but were it to seizure Soledar, Russia would astatine slightest beryllium capable to attack the metropolis from a antithetic path.
- EU and US enactment for Ukraine: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged continued support for Ukraine, saying, the West needs to "keep expanding the unit connected Russia." She reaffirmed that the EU volition backmost Ukraine "as firmly arsenic connected time 1 and arsenic agelong arsenic it takes," arsenic the warfare comes person to the 1 twelvemonth mark. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Friday and emphasized that the US would proceed providing economical and information enactment for Kyiv, according to a readout.
- Nuclear works safety: The caput of the International Atomic Energy Agency volition question to Ukraine adjacent week to acceptable up a changeless beingness of information experts astatine each of the country's atomic powerfulness plants. While the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia atomic plant already has IAEA squad members connected location, experts volition besides beryllium stationed astatine the Khmelnitsky atomic powerfulness works successful occidental Ukraine successful "the coming days," the manager of the IAEA said.
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