Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 169

Listed below are the important thing occasions on Thursday, August 11.

Combating

• Ukraine accused Russia of firing rockets from the captured Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, killing a minimum of 13 individuals and wounding 10, within the information it will be dangerous for Ukraine to return hearth.
• Russia launched 80 Grad rockets on the city of Marhanets throughout the Dnieper river from the nuclear plant on Tuesday, Valentyn Reznychenko, the governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk area stated, including that greater than 20 buildings have been broken.
• Two US newspapers cited unnamed Ukrainian officers as saying the nation’s particular forces had carried out an assault on Tuesday on an airbase on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, destroying navy plane.
• Russian assaults on the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Bakhmut killed a minimum of six individuals and wounded three others, the regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated.

Diplomacy

• The international ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) financial powers have known as on Moscow to instantly return Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant to full Ukrainian management amid rising fears of a possible catastrophe.
• China has accused america of being the “major instigator” of the Ukraine disaster, saying Washington’s “final objective is to exhaust and crush Russia”.
• Russian authorities raided the house of a former state TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova and detained her as a part of a legal investigation for allegedly spreading false details about the Russian armed forces, her lawyer stated on social media.
• The Russian unbiased information outlet Novaya Gazeta stated it had been fined 350,000 Russian roubles ($5,700) for “abusing media freedom”.

Financial system

• Ukraine’s abroad collectors backed its request for a two-year freeze on funds on virtually $20bn in worldwide bonds, a transfer that may permit it to keep away from a debt default.
• Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated the transfer will save the nation virtually $6bn, serving to stabilise its economic system and strengthen its military.
• The second business ship to reach in a Ukrainian port for the reason that begin of Russia’s invasion has docked within the port of Chornomorsk and is able to load grain, Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov stated.
• Russians are snapping up Western style and furnishings this week as H&M and IKEA dump the final of their stock in Russia, transferring ahead with their exit from the nation after it despatched troops into Ukraine.