⚡️ The first and second nuclear power units of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are mined, reports the Former Head of the State Inspection of Nuclear Regulation, Hryhorii Plachkov.
“We are receiving reports of harassment of station personnel, as well as Russia’s attempts to transfer the ZNPP to Russian jurisdiction. It is also known that the first and second nuclear power units are mined,” says Plachkov.
Ukraine's Armed Forces started a new phase of offensive operations in Kherson Oblast on 2 October 2022.
Advancing south, Ukrainian units have pushed the front line forwards by up to an additional 20km, primarily making gains along the east bank of the Inhulets and west bank of the Dnipro, but not yet threatening the main Russian defensive positions.
Russian forces have typically broken contact and withdrawn. Russian commanders are likely to see the growing threat to the Nova Kakhovka sector as one of their most pressing concerns.
⚡️The Russians struck several industrial facilities Osnovianskyi district of Kharkiv at night, – Oleh Syniehubov, the head of Regional Military Administration.
Preliminarily, the Russians used kamikaze drones.
Fires broke out, non-residential buildings were partially destroyed. There are no casualties.
⚡️Oleh Syniehubov: The occupiers shelled Kupiansk and Vovchansk districts in the region, as well as settlements in Bohodukhiv and Kharkiv districts: Udy, Veterynarne, Strilecha, Krasne, etc.
⚡️Explosions were heard in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Nikopol, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytskyi regions, – subscribers report.
⚡️The Russian Federation shelled an infrastructure object in the Osnovianskyi district of Kharkiv. A fire broke out at the place of a missile "arrival", – Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov.
⚡️ Information about the explosions in Zaporizhzhia was also confirmed by the head of Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Starukh.
⚡️Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Over the past 24 hours, the Russians have launched 5 missile and 8 air strikes, carried out more than 65 rounds of anti-aircraft fire.
The objects and civilian population of more than thirty settlements were damaged by the Russian strikes. Among them are Bila Tserkva, Kupiansk, Bilohorivka, Siversk, Karlivka, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, Huliaipole, Prohres, Nikopol and Myrne.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Vyimka, Soledar, Odradivka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Krasnohorivka, Maiorsk and Novomykhailivka.
⚡️ Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 (GMT+3) on October 5:
During the current day, the occupiers have launched 3 rocket and 2 air strikes, carried out more than 15 attacks from rocket salvo systems.
Objects and civilian population of more than 20 settlements were damaged by enemy strikes. Among them are Bila Tserkva, Ridkodub, Siversk, Soledar, Bilohirka, Karlivka, Zaporizhzhia, Nikopol, Kryvyi Rih and Myrne.
⚡️The General Staff: During the current day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Vyimka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Maiorsk and Novomykhailivka.
⚡️ Volodymyr Zelenskyi addressed the participants of the public debate "War and Law" continuing within the framework of the "Night of the Right" (La Nuit du Droit).
“I believe that the International Criminal Court will be able to create a historical precedent and absolutely legitimate response to the crimes committed by the Russian occupiers as large-scale, as the Russian war against Ukraine has become.”
“But to receive a just response and the original crime of armed aggression, we must complement the work of the International Criminal Court.”