Saturday, August 6. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine

Business Saturday, August 6. Russia’s War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine Katya Soldak Forbes Staff Forbes Ukraine Forbes Staff Aug 7, 2022, 12:58am EDT | Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin POKROVSK, UKRAINE – AUGUST 06: Civilians boarding westbound trains during the mandatory evacuation . .

. [+] from Donbas, on 6 August, 2022 in Pokrovsk, Ukraine. Volunteers evacuate civilians from Bakhmut and Mykolaivka.

(Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Dispatches from Ukraine, provided by Forbes Ukraine’s editorial team. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues and the war rages on, reliable sources of information are critical. Forbes Ukraine’s reporters gather information and provide updates on the situation.

Saturday, August 6. Day 164. By Dmytro Aksyonov Mykolaiv.

Russian shelling along the frontline, on the border of the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, has killed one civilian and injured five more , says Hanna Zamazieieva , the head of the Mykolaiv regional council. Zamazieieva added that a total of 294 people in the region are currently being treated in hospitals for injuries sustained as a result of Russian attacks and 82 more are being treated at home. Ukrainian state nuclear energy company, Energoatom, reports that yesterday’s shelling on the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant has led to more extensive damage than previously thought, and that as a result of the attack, the nitrogen-oxygen unit and the combined auxiliary building have been severely damaged, which increases the risk of hydrogen leakage and the emission of radioactive substances.

Director General of U. N. ’s nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, warns that there is a “very real risk of a nuclear disaster that could threaten public health and the environment in Ukraine and beyond,” and has requested to be allowed to lead a IAEA mission to ensure the safety of the plant.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says that he believes the initial success of the trade deal between Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the U. N. has set a precedent for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to restart, and has once again extended an invitation to Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold a meeting in Istanbul.

Additionally, after a meeting with Putin, Erdoğan has said Turkey will “continue to hold dialogue” with Russia, and, reportedly, has accepted the Russian leader’s offer to partially pay for Russian gas in Russian roubles. For the first time since February 24, a cargo ship has entered a Ukrainian port in order to receive grain shipments, reports Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov. Additionally, three more ships are awaiting to be allowed to pass through the Bosphorus strait after the first ship was let through as part of the grain export deal.

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has secured $4. 5 billion for food security at the G7 summit, of which it has contributed $2. 76 billion.

Russia said on Friday it is ready to discuss a prisoner swap with the United States in private, a day after a Russian court jailed U. S. basketball star Brittney Griner for nine years for charges of marijuana possession in a high-profile case that has been slammed by U.

S. officials as an example of Russia using U. S.

citizens as a political bargaining chip. It is reported the U. S.

has offered to swap Griner for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer currently serving out a 25-year sentence in the U. S. Katya Soldak Forbes Ukraine Editorial Standards Print Reprints & Permissions.