Ukraine – Russia, news from the war today. Lukoil: “Maganov died of illness”

Ankara: 5 more ships left Ukraine via the “grain corridor”

Five other ships left Ukrainian ports via the so-called “grain corridor”. The Turkish Ministry of Defense wrote on Twitter. Yesterday the Turkish authorities had announced that 9 ships loaded with grain were waiting to leave the port of Odessa. On 26 August, Ukraine exported the first million tonnes of agricultural products by sea since 24 February through the “grain corridor”. On 22 July, representatives of Ukraine and Russia signed separate agreements with the UN and Turkey aimed at unblocking Ukraine’s grain exports in the midst of the global food crisis caused by the war with Russia.

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Zelensky’s chief of staff: “Moscow wanted to stop the IAEA”

The chief of staff of the Ukrainian president, Andriy Yermak, accused Russia of wanting to “stop” the visit of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Russia behaved like a “terrorist state” by bombing the territory of the power plant and Energodar, the city adjacent to the plant, writes Yermak on Twitter, adding: “Russia is responsible for everything that is happening at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. and to Energodar “.

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The IAEA delegation arrived at the Zaporizhzhia plant

The IAEA delegation has arrived at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, according to an envoy from the Russian agency Ria Novosti and confirms Energoatom.

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The Kremlin: “The EU’s visa squeeze is absurd”

The Kremlin called the European Union’s decision to complicate the procedure for issuing visas to Russian citizens absurd and warned that the initiative would backfire on Europeans themselves. “Of course, this will also make the situation more difficult for Europeans. Another ridiculous decision of the absurdity underway,” commented Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. When asked about Russia’s possible retaliatory measures, the spokesperson explained that “Moscow is moving confidently along the path that best suits her interests”.

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Three hours delay for the Aiea mission. But the inspection in Zaporizhzhia is confirmed

The mission of the Aiea experts to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, scheduled for shortly, has been postponed by a few hours due to delays “on the Ukrainian side”, but the agency’s spokesman confirms that it will take place today. Reuters writes.

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Lavrov: “On visas, Moscow must give a targeted response to the authors of the sanctions”

Russia should not replicate the EU restrictions on issuing visas to Russian citizens, but should give a targeted response to the authors of the sanctions: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said today, commenting on the decision of the European Union to suspend the visa facilitation agreement signed with Russia in 2007. This was reported by Interfax.

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Lukoil: “Top manager Maganov died after a serious illness”

Ravil Maganov, chairman of the board of directors of the Russian private oil group Lukoil, has died of a “serious illness,” the company announced in a statement Thursday, without providing further details. Earlier in the day, several Russian media and news agencies, citing anonymous sources, claimed that Ravil Maganov had died at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. Some of these sources claimed that he fell out of a window.

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Lavrov: “We are doing everything possible to ensure the safety of the Zaporizhzhia power plant”

“We are doing everything possible to ensure that this plant is safe and operates safely. And that the mission can carry out all its plans.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed this from Moscow in statements reported by the Guardian regarding the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces, and the mission of the IAEA experts.

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Ukrainian nuclear energy company: part of Zaporizhzhia plant shut down after gunfire

“Today, September 1, 2022, at 4.57 am, following another mortar strike by the Russian occupation forces at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant site, emergency protection was activated and the 5th operational power unit was shut down. In addition, the ZAES-330 kV 330 kV backup power line for your own needs was damaged. In the transition mode, the non-functioning power unit # 2 was de-energized with the start of the diesel generators. ” . Energoatom, the Ukrainian national company for the production of nuclear energy, writes this on its Facebook page.

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Russia, a top manager of Lukoil falls from the hospital window and dies

The chairman of the board of directors and first executive vice president of the Russian oil company Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, died after falling from the sixth floor window of a hospital. This was reported by the Russian agency Rbc.

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Moscow: 4 Ukrainian artillery shells exploded near the Zaporizhzhia power plant

“Four artillery shells (Ukrainian, ed.) Exploded 400 meters from the first reactor” of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: the Russian Defense Ministry announced in a statement, according to Interfax.

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Moscow accuses: “Saboteurs wanted to take over the plant. Eliminated”

Moscow accuses the Ukrainian army of having conducted a landing of “saboteurs” near the nuclear power plant of Zaporizhia on the day of the arrival of the Aiea mission led by Secretary General Rafael Grossi.

“Around 6 am two groups of Ukrainian army saboteurs, about 60 people, arrived on seven boats three kilometers northeast of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, stating of having implemented “measures to annihilate the enemy”.

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Chief Aiea Grossi: “Intense military activity, but we don’t stop”

The mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) started from the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia towards the nuclear power plant, which is located in the city of Energodicontrolled by Russian forces, despite reports of intense bombing. The director of the IAEA, Raffaello Grossiwho leads the mission, said he was aware of “increased military activity in the area”, but assured that this would not hinder the plans of UN experts to visit the facility and meet its staff.

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Kiev accuses Russia of bombing the city that hosts Zaporizhzhia. The mayor: “There are victims”

The town of Energodi which houses the nuclear power plant of Zaporizhzhia has been under Russian artillery fire since this morning, according to the mayor’s allegations, Dmitro Orlov who writes on social media:. “Energodar. From five in the morning the mortar shelling on the city does not stop. Machine gun shots are heard. Several civilians have been hit. There are casualties! We are determining the number of victims,” ​​Orlov writes. The IAEA inspectors arrived yesterday morning in the city of Zaporizhzhia and are waiting to be able to enter Energodar for their mission at the plant.

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Yellen: confident on price caps to calm prices

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that a failure to price cap on Russian oil prices would harm the global economy. “Without a price cap, we face the threat of a global rise in energy prices if most of Russia’s energy production is shut down,” Yellen said at the start of a meeting with her British counterpart, Nadhim Zahawi.

The European Union has decided to ban almost all oil from Russia by the end of the year. It will also ban the insurance and financing of maritime transport of Russian oil to other countries. Unless a price cap is implemented, prices will almost certainly rise.

The UK and other G7 countries tentatively agreed in June to pursue a ceiling on the price of Russian oil. Getting as many other nations as possible to agree to join a buyer’s cartel has been a major goal of the Treasury as it seeks to curb Russia’s ability to finance its war in Ukraine. Yellen said there had been “substantial progress” towards meeting the price cap and was optimistic that it would happen. Zawahi, who became Chancellor of the Exchequer on July 5, said Britain intends to “influence key nations” to join the plan.

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From EU stop to easy visas for Russians, Moscow: “Shoot in the foot”

The EU foreign ministers, gathered in an informal council, reached an agreement in principle to eliminate the 2007 agreement between Russia and the European Union for the facilitated issuing of visas. However, the Kremlin’s reaction was not long in coming: with this choice, the EU “has decided to shoot itself in the foot”, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, explaining that the choice “will not be without consequences” and that Russia ” it can take both symmetrical and asymmetrical measurements in response “.

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The war at the Venice Film Festival, the names of the dead children on the screen

As already happened at the Cannes Film Festival, the war takes place at the Venice Film Festival. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in the middle of the ceremony in the Great Hall, led by Spanish actress Rocio Munoz Morales, breaks in with a video message in which he presents the sad list of the 358 children killed in the conflict as of 29 August 2022.

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Aiea mission in the Zaporizhzhia plant, the pro-Russian: “Only one day for inspections”

The mission of the IAEA inspectors to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant will last only one day, says Yevhen Balytskyi, head of the region’s civil-military administration. “The inspectors have one day to inspect the operation of the plant.” The inspectors will not have any special pass, “they will have to queue like the others”, added the pro-Russians.

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Gas, second day of stop at Nord Stream

Since yesterday morning, gas supplies from Russia to the EU via Nord Stream have been completely interrupted. The stop will have an expected duration of three days. According to Eni, 25% less gas will arrive. Meanwhile, the decree extending the discount on petrol has been signed. European stock exchanges down with Wall Street contrasting, Piazza Affari -1.22%.

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