German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minbister Boris Johnson have called for military restraint around Zaporizhzhia NPP. “The leaders affirmed their continued support for Ukraine's efforts to defend itself against Russian aggression. They also discussed the situation at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, including the need to avoid military operations near the plant and the importance of an IAEA visit as soon as feasible to ascertain the state of safety systems,” a statement released by the White House reads. The Presidents of France Emmanuel Macron and of Russia Vladimir Putin agreed, in principle, on an urgent safety mission by the International Atomic Energy Agency to the Zaporizhzhia NPP. After the technical details are cleared up, IAEA inspectors will be able to go to the nuclear power plant to analyze the state it is in.

Ukraine denied having anything to do with the car bomb which killed Darya Dugina, daughter of ultra-nationalist ideologue, dubbed “Putin’s brain” Alexander Dugin, herself a vocal proponent of Russia’s war in Ukraine. “Ukraine definitely has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state, which the Russian Federation is, and even more so, we are not a terrorist state,” Mikhail Podolyak, advisor to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnky said. Later, former MP from the Russian Duma Ilya Ponomarev stated that Russian partisans from the National Republican Army were behind the car bomb killing. “We declare President Putin a usurper of power and a war criminal who amended the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between the Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers to certain and senseless death,” the purported manifesto of the National Republican Army goes, as read out by Ilya Ponomarev.

“Ukraine’s armed forces attempted to strike Belbek military airfield in Sevastopol on Sunday with air defense systems deflecting the attack,” Sevastopol’s Russia installed Mikhail Razvozhaev wrote on his Telegram channel. The Russian army shelled Mykolaiv and Nikopol, which is not far from Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.