Zelensky vows to recover crime from Russia

It was not immediately clear whether it had been the target of a long-range Ukrainian missile attack. In his night speech, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, did not discuss who stands behind the attacks, but pledged to deregulate “” The crime, saying “This Russian war against Ukraine and all of free Europe began with the Crimea and should end with its release”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed the Ukrainian Crime Peninsula in March 2014.

The head of Ukraine's state-owned nuclear power company warned of the high “risks of” from grants to the Zaporizhja nuclear power plant in the south occupied by Russia and said it is vital that Kiev regain control over the winter-time facility. Energoatom's chief, Petro Kotin, told Reuters in an interview that last week's Russian grants had damaged three lines linking the Zaporizhja plant to the Ukrainian network and that Russia wants to link the facility to its network.

According to Ukrainian operator Energoatom, Russian forces that have occupied the Zaporizhja nuclear plant are reorienting the plant's production of power to deal with Crime, an annexed by Moscow in 2014. To do so, you must first damage the power lines of the plant connected to the Ukrainian energy system. From August 7 to 9, Russians have already damaged three power lines. For the time being, the plant is operating only on a production line, which is an extremely dangerous way of working”, Energoatom President Petro Cottin told Ukrainian television. The plant, located not far from the Crime Peninsula, has six of Ukraine's 15 reactors and is able to supply energy to four million homes.

Leaders of Estonia and Finland want European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens, saying they should not be able to take holidays in Europe, while the Russian government waged war in Ukraine. Estonia's prime minister, Kaya Kallas, wrote on Tuesday in Titter that “visits Europe is a privilege, not a human right” and that it was “koha to end tourism from Russia now”, the Associated Press reported.

US President Joe Biden signed documents Tuesday supporting the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, the most significant expansion of the military alliance since the 1990s, as it responds to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Reuters reports.

The US State Department has approved assistance worth $89m to help Ukraine equip and train 100 teams to clear land mines and unbroken ammunition for a year, Reuters reported.

The total number of grain carriers to leave Ukrainian ports under a UN-brokered agreement to ease the global food crisis has now reached 12 with the last two ships to head towards Istanbul and Turkey on Tuesday.

Russia's Baltic Endava of Kaliningrad has been struggling with EU-set quotas for sanctioned goods that can import across Lithuania from continental Russia or Belarus, the region's governor acknowledged. Lithuania angered Moscow in June by banning the land transit of goods like concrete and steel to Kaliningrad after EU sanctions on them came into force, Reuters reported.

Russia has launched an Iranian satellite from Kazakhstan amid concerns that it could be used for monitoring the battlefield in the invasion of Ukraine by Moscow. Iran has denied that the Khayyam satellite, which was taken into orbit aboard a Soyuz missile released by the Baikour cosmodrium, will ever be under Russian control. But Washington Post reported earlier that Moscow told Tehran that “plans to use the satellite for several months, or longer, to improve the supervision of military targets” in Ukraine, according to two American officials./The Guardian