New evacuation in Russia under threat of Ukrainian incursions. Fire under control at Zaporizhzhia power plant

Moscow has announced the evacuation of residents from a district of Belgorod regionon the border with Ukraine, while it continues the incursion of Kiev forces in the nearby Kursk region. “The morning promises to be alarming for us: there is enemy activity on the border of Krasnoyaruzhsky district,” the governor of the Belgorod region said in a video posted on TelegramVyacheslav Gladkov. “For the safety of life and health of our population, we are starting to evacuate” the inhabitants of this district, he added.

Overnight, air defense forces shot down 18 Ukrainian drones over the Russian regions of Kursk, Belgorod and Voronezh, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. According to the Russian Telegram channel Astra, citing local residents, some drones were also shot down near theChkalovsky military airport, a few kilometers from Moscow. Residents heard gunfire in the nearby town of Shchelkovo and air raid sirens. According to some pro-Russian bloggers, the attack on the military airport was repelled. There is no official news.

In the meantime it has been “completely shut down” the fire broke out on sunday at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhiathe pro-Russian authorities in the region confirmed last night.
Formerly the Russian nuclear power company Rosemary had stated that a The plant’s cooling tower suffered “serious damage” because of “two attacks by Ukrainian military drones”.

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Raphael Mariano Grossiassured for his part that “there is no impact on the nuclear safety“. Nor would there be any danger of collapse. According to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskythe fire at the plant was allegedly started by the “Russian occupiers”. The “probable causes” of the fire that broke out at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia are “the negligence of the Russian occupiers” or a act “deliberate on the part of the orcs”: the Ukrainian atomic energy agency Energoatom wrote this on Telegram.