Ukraine: an IAEA report on Zaporizhzhia is expected, a ceiling on the price of Russian oil from the G7
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, presented yesterday at the press conference in Vienna, the first results of the mission in the Ukrainian nuclear power plant; the integrity of the plant is violated several times, most of the security systems are fine, but there have been outages working, he told him. Meanwhile, Moscow denounces attacks by Kiev in the area, while the G7 has decided to limit the price of crude oil imported from Russia
Tiziana Campisi – Vatican City
There are still six experts from the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where the international body will establish a “permanent presence”. Last night, new Ukrainian bombings hit the area. The director general of the agency, Rafael Grossi, during a press conference in Vienna yesterday, talked about his visit to the plant, he reported seeing military activities near it and signs on the buildings and said a lot. concerned about the high probability of further damage. A report on the outcome of the mission, which is establishing a permanent presence at the plant, is now awaited, and the UN Security Council will be informed on Tuesday.
The decisions of the G7 on Russian oil
Meanwhile, after the G7 decision to regulate the prices of Russian oil emissions to limit the inflow of Ukrainian resources to limit Ukraine, used in the war against Ukraine. The ministries of finance of the informal intergovernmental group that the seven most advanced economies in the world have indeed agreed on a price cap. In essence, industrialized countries undertake to purchase crude oil and refined products only if offered at a price equal to or below a value determined by the broad coalition of nations. The political objective is to finalize and implement an overall blockade of services that allow the maritime transport of crude oil and petroleum products of Russian origin in the world. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russian oil that will not go to Europe will be destined for countries that work on market conditions, while Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Serghei Ryabkov has warned the US against doing provocative steps, including supplying Ukraine with new long-range and more destructive weapons, stating that there is now only a “very thin line separating the United States from becoming a party to the conflict”.
Europe will discuss the cost of gas from Russia
The president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, is also thinking of a limit for gas costs. “I firmly believe that the time has come to set a ceiling on the price of Russian gas in Europe”, he said, adding that “the electricity market no longer works because it exports because it is seriously disturbed by Putin’s selection”, who will have to however, to deal with the total stop of the stream from Nord Stream, which has operating problems. Gazprom explains in a statement that the three-day outage is expected to lengthen. The strategy announced by the leader of the European executive will be discussed at the extraordinary meeting of energy ministries in Brussels on 9 September. Since this is a sanction, unanimity will be required. Instead, 30 million tons of wheat will leave Russia by the end of the year, according to an agreement with the United Nations, this to begin to affect the global food shortages caused by the war. The Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure, Oleksandr Kubrakov, in turn announced that, one month after the resumption of activities in the Ukrainian ports of Odessa, Chornomorsk and Pivdenny, thanks to the opening of the so-called grain corridors, there are over 1.72 million the tonnes of agricultural products exported and that 68 ships left for August in 18 countries.