"We must not allow them any space to spread their propaganda & false, toxic narratives about the invasion of Ukraine," Roberta Metsola said on Twitter. Last week, Ukraine's state-owned grid operator dismissed as "physically impossible" the suggestion by a Russian official that the plant would supply Russia with electricity.Ĥ:25 p.m.: The European Parliament has banned Russian lobbyists from its premises, its speaker said Thursday according to Agence France-Presse. The plant "cannot be turned off from a technical, security, economic or political point of view," Energoatom said in a statement. Russian troops have taken over the plant, but Ukrainian specialists are still running it. The Zaporizhzhia facility in southeast Ukraine is Europe's largest nuclear power plant. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the need for a corridor for the export of agricultural products during telephone calls with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week.ĥ:45 p.m.: Ukraine's state-run nuclear power operator, Energoatom, on Thursday denied it might shut down a major nuclear power plant if Kyiv loses control of operations at the site, Reuters reported. They are also slated to take up the need to clear the route of mines as well as the creation of a command center that would oversee the mechanism. The Anadolu Agency said the sides are set to discuss a possible route for the corridor, insurance issues and security for the corridor. News reports at the time tied that incident to Botashev’s death, which the Russian government had not confirmed until Thursday.Ħ:55 p.m.: Two temporary bridges arrive in Ukraine from The Czech State Material Reserve Administration.Ħ:30 p.m.: Officials from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations will meet in Istanbul soon to discuss plans for the establishment of a corridor that would allow the export of Ukrainian agricultural products, Turkey’s state-run news agency said Thursday. On May 22, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said a Russian Su-25 attack plane was shot down over the Luhansk region and that the pilot did not have time to eject. The Russian state news agency Tass said Kanamat Botashev, a 63-year-old major-general who volunteered to return to service, had been shot down last month while flying over the eastern Donbass region.
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It, too, is under Russian siege.ħ:27 p.m.: A funeral was held Thursday for a retired Russian Air Force major-general whose plane was shot down while flying a combat mission in his country’s invasion of Ukraine, The Associated Press reported. Lysychansk is separated by a river from the other city in the region that’s still under at least partial Ukrainian control, Sievierodonetsk. Oleksandr Zaika, head of Lysychansk City Military-Civil Administration, said on an “information telemarathon” cited by the Unian news agency that non-stop shelling had knocked out electricity, natural gas, telephone and internet service. Griner has been detained for 105 days after vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage at an airport near Moscow.Ĩ:14 p.m.: About 60% of the infrastructure and residential buildings in Lysychansk, one of only two cities in the east still under at least partial Ukrainian control, have been destroyed by attacks, a local official said Thursday. Griner either writes a response on paper and her lawyers will take a photo of it or she dictates a response if she doesn’t have any paper. It’s not easy: The emails are printed out and delivered sporadically in bunches to Griner by her lawyer after they are vetted by Russian officials.
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Hundreds of emails have been sent by players to an account Griner’s agent set up to allow them to communicate with her. In one small bit of normalcy, Griner has been able to receive emails and letters from WNBA players while she is detained in Russia.
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But she can write, The Associated Press reported. “These weapons really can save the lives of our people and defend our land,” he said.Ĩ:48 p.m.: Brittney Griner can’t play with her WNBA colleagues. Zelenskyy said he was thankful to the United States for agreeing to send advanced rocket systems. It’s too early to give specifics, he said late Thursday in his nightly video address to the nation. 9:10 p.m.: While the fighting is still brutal in the eastern Donbas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy but there has been “some progress” in the city of Sievierodonetsk.