00:00Well, the regional state of emergency that has been declared in Belgrade region has been
00:05explained as by the need of extra security for the civilian population of this region
00:12because according to the governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, the region has been under daily attacks
00:18from the Ukrainian side as a result of the shelling, as a result of drone strikes.
00:22The civilian population has been suffering the wounds, the deaths, all that has been
00:28launched in this area and that's why he said, looking further, the authorities will appeal
00:35to the government to translate the regional state of emergency into the federal emergency.
00:40We understand that more people have been evacuated from the neighbouring Kursk region over the
00:44course of the past days and overnight there have been at least 117 drones coming from
00:51the Ukrainian side against the Russian regions.
00:53In Belgrade there were 17, in the Kursk region there were 37, in the Voronezh region there
00:58were another 37, so this is the daily process and we understand from the words of the Russian
01:04officials that the Ukrainian incursion against the Russian territory has put the possibility
01:10of holding the ceasefire negotiations on the long pause.
01:14As you suggest, fighting continues in Kursk.
01:18How is Russia responding?
01:21Well, so far the Russian Ministry of Defence, once again, saying that they have been preventing
01:29and repelling the Ukrainian attempts to get deeper inside the Kursk region.
01:34They say they have been attacking the mobile groups of the Ukrainian military inside Russia
01:39and they are now saying that the Ukrainian so-called blitzkrieg has failed.
01:46Some of senior commanders within the Russian military have been quoted by the Russian media
01:50saying that the goal of Ukraine was actually to come to the city of Kurchatov to take the
01:55control of the nuclear power plants there and then to start the peace negotiations,
02:01but that blitzkrieg, according to Moscow, has failed.
02:04We also understand that the security measures have indeed been strengthened, especially
02:09at the nuclear sites, but what is important at the moment for Moscow is to make sure that
02:13the Ukrainian troops are outside the Russian sovereign territory.
02:18Dasha, thank you for that.
02:20Our correspondent Dasha Chernysheva in Moscow.
02:22Well, that's the view from Russia.
02:24Let's take you next to Ukraine and talk to our correspondent Magumi Lim, who's in Kyiv.
02:30Magumi, Ukraine reportedly launched the biggest drone attack of this conflict so far.
02:43That's right.
02:44In combination with their ground incursion into Russia's Kursk region, it looks like
02:48Ukraine, Ukrainian forces have stepped up their air attacks against the military targets
02:54inside Russia overnight.
02:56Russia said that it shot down 117 Ukrainian drones and four missiles over several regions,
03:02including Kursk and Belgorod.
03:04And Ukraine has said that it managed to strike four Russian air bases.
03:09Now, this would mark the biggest drone attack carried out by Ukrainian forces against Russia
03:14since the start of the full-scale war, but it will also mark the biggest attack against
03:18the Russian air bases since the conflict began.
03:22Now, one of the air bases where explosions were reported in the Nizhny Novgorod region
03:28is known to house Russian MiG-31K fighter jets.
03:31These are capable of carrying Kinzhal ballistic missiles.
03:35And just to give you an idea of how important these strikes are for Ukraine, whenever one
03:39of these jets take off, it triggers a nationwide air raid alert inside Ukraine and has been
03:45a major source of stress for Ukrainians here.
03:49So now we're seeing a multi-pronged attack carrying, attacks carried out by Ukrainian
03:54forces on the ground inside Kursk, but also through air attacks.
03:59And the goal is pretty clear for Ukraine, they're still trying to continue to cripple
04:05Moscow's ability to carry out their military operations inside Ukraine.
04:10Meanwhile, the United Nations nuclear watchdog has been speaking about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear
04:16power station.
04:22That's right, the nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, gave an update on what caused the fire at
04:27the Zaporizhzhia, Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Monday.
04:32They've said that they still have not been able to determine the exact cause of the fire,
04:37but they've said that they found foreign objects, material visible from the damaged cooling
04:43tower.
04:44But they've said that they have evidence that the fire, in fact, didn't start at the base
04:48of this damaged cooling tower, as previously understood.
04:51Now, on Monday, Russia and Ukraine did trade blame for the fire that broke out.
04:56Russia said that Ukrainian drones caused the blaze, and Ukraine said that Russia started
05:01the fire.
05:02Now, this Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is located very, very close to the front lines,
05:07and so incidents like these are very common and has been a major source of concern for
05:12the IAEA.
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