WAR IN UKRAINE: August 10, 2022

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 168

  • Harrowing predictions of what could happen at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex were outlined today at an off the record press conference with Ukrainian nuclear power and legal experts. The event took place at the Ukrainian Media Center in Kyiv.

  • One expert who claimed he was in close contact with staff at the plant said that they were under “huge psychological pressure” whilst working under Russian command. One staffer reported to have said the plant’s Ukrainian staff can only go to toilets under armed escort by RF soldiers.

  • Russian shelling in the centre of Ukraine overnight has killed at least 12 people, Ukrainian officials say. BBC reports that the governor of Dnipropetrovsk region says 11 people were killed in his area, while another died in Zaporizhzhia region

  • One person has been killed after blasts rocked a military base in Crimea, the head of the Russia-appointed regional administration there said. Sergei Aksyonov wrote on social media that the blasts had taken place at the Saky military base near Novofedorivka on the peninsula's western coast. Russia's defence ministry later said ammunition was detonated, but this has not been independently verified - BBC

  • Watch CNN analysis of what just might’ve happened in Crimea here

  • The leaders of Estonia and Finland want fellow European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens, saying they should not be able to take vacations in Europe while the government of Russia carries out a war in Ukraine - AP

  • What the award-winning Ukrainian TV investigative programme had to say about the Crimea strike here

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on Western countries to ban all Russian visitors. Russians should "live in their own world until they change their philosophy", Mr Zelensky told The Washington Post. Such a ban would be more effective than the current sanctions, which bar Russian airlines and officials linked to the Kremlin - BBC

  • A Russian offensive is continuing toward the hub cities of Bakhmut and Avdiyivka in the eastern Donetsk region as the enemy tries to inflict "maximum losses" on Ukrainian forces. Meanwhile, the Kremlin has lashed out at European critics over their calls for all Russians to be banned from the West until their country ends its invasion of Ukraine along with the underlying mindset - RFE/RL

  • Life During Wartime: In A Surreal Summer, Kyiv Adapts To An Abnormal New Normal. Read the RFE/RL feature here

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