Ukraine: Amid fresh explosions in Crimea and a missile attack injuring 12 civilians near a nuclear power plant on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Ukrainians to exercise caution as they prepare to celebrate their Independence Day.

Zelensky warned Ukrainians in his nightly video address that Moscow should not "spread despair and fear" among them as they celebrate the 31st anniversary of their independence from Soviet rule.

On August 24, which also marked six months after Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine, Zelensky warned that Russia "may try to do something particularly ugly, something particularly vicious this week."

On 24 August, regional governor Oleh Sinehub announced that the curfew in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, would be extended for a full day. The city in the northeast is frequently shelled by Russia, and there is usually a curfew from 10 pm to 6 am.

"Stay home and heed the warnings!" Telegram residents received a message from Synehub.

A Russian missile also hit a residential area in a southern Ukrainian city not far from a nuclear power plant on Saturday, injuring 12 civilians, according to Russian and Ukrainian officials.

New concerns about a nuclear accident during the war were raised by the attack on the Pevdnoukrensk nuclear plant and recent shelling close to the Zaporizhzhya plant, Europe's largest such facility, according to Ukrainian officials.

In his speech, Zelensky also referred to recent explosions in Crimea, Ukrainian territory that Russia invaded and seized in 2014.

While analysts claim that at least some of the attacks were made possible by new equipment used by Ukrainian forces, Ukraine has not yet claimed responsibility for them.

According to Zelensky, this year, you can literally feel the return of Ukraine and the temporary annexation of Crimea.

The most recent attack in Crimea, according to the Russian-appointed governor, which is not recognized by the West, occurred on Saturday morning when a drone struck a structure close to the Black Sea Fleet headquarters.

The roof was visited by a drone. Governor Mikhail Razvozayev said on Telegram that it was flying low. "Just above the fleet headquarters, it went down. It crashed on the roof and caught fire. The attack was unsuccessful.

Later, Razvozayev announced that the area's anti-aircraft system had resumed operations and asked locals to stop sharing documentation and images of how it was working.

According to Ukrainian media, explosions were reported in nearby towns, including the resorts of Yevpatoriya, Olenivka and Dzorynoye.

Injured children

The governor of the Mykolaiv region, Vitaly Kim, announced on Telegram that four children were injured after an attack near the South Ukraine power plant. In Voznesensk, which is thirty kilometers (19 mi) from Ukraine's second largest plant, individual housing and a five-story apartment building were damaged.

Updating the earlier count, the General Prosecutor's Office in the Mykolaiv region reported that 12 civilians were injured.
The attack on Voznesensk was referred to as "another act of Russian nuclear terrorism" by state-run Energoatom, which oversees all four nuclear power generators in Ukraine.

According to a statement from Energoatom, the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant, which the Russian military attempted to seize in early March, could be the target of this missile.

The allegation did not immediately elicit a response from Russia. In Voznesensk, Reuters was unable to confirm the situation. There were no reports of damage to the South Ukraine plant.

Ukraine and Russia have exchanged fresh allegations of shelling near the Zaporizhzhya station, which Russia has controlled since March.
In the nearby town of Enerhodar, Vladimir Rogov, a representative of Russia, claimed that the Ukrainian military had attacked the plant at least four times. The mayor of Nikopol, which is under Ukrainian control and located on the other side of the Dnipro River, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, claimed that Russian forces had repeatedly opened fire on the city.

The visit to the plant by the United Nations Atomic Energy Agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has been under discussion for more than a week.
The United Nations and other international organizations have been urged by Ukrainian authorities to order the Russian military to leave the Zaporizhzhya plant.

Mariupol's new Russian-appointed mayor, Konstantin Ivashenko, is said to have survived an assassination attempt, according to city officials, which Russia now controls after weeks of shelling in eastern Ukraine.

Deposed city council member Petro Andryshchenko posted on Telegram that "it didn't work." But this is just the beginning.

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