Here is a summary of today's events:
Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska said the death toll in Russia’s strike on the city of Poltava on Tuesday rose to 47 with 206 more people injured.
The head of Ukraine’s state-run electricity grid said Tuesday he had been sacked, a move that raised fears over political interference at a company battling to keep the lights on amid Russia’s invasion.
The U.S. is close to an agreement to give Ukraine long-range cruise missiles that could reach deep into Russia, but Kyiv would need to wait several months as the U.S. works through technical issues ahead of any shipment, U.S. officials told Reuters.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, denounced the ICC warrant against Vladimir Putin as “illegal” in an online statement Tuesday and those who would try to carry it out as “madmen.” Putin is visiting Mongolia with no sign that the host country will bow to calls to arrest him on the international warrant for alleged war crimes stemming from the invasion of Ukraine.
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog was holding talks with senior officials Tuesday in Ukraine over safety concerns for Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, where attacks were recently reported nearby.
Ukraine’s state railways said on Tuesday that Russia’s overnight attack targeted its infrastructure in the northeastern region of Sumy and central Dnipropetrovsk region.
An eight-year-old boy was among two people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region overnight, while a third person died in a missile attack on the central city of Dnipro, Ukrainian officials said.
Ousted head of Ukraine's electricity grid blames anonymous media campaign
The head of Ukraine’s state-run electricity grid said Tuesday he had been sacked, a move that raised fears over political interference at a company battling to keep the lights on amid Russia’s invasion.
“On 2 September, the Supervisory Board of Ukrenergo decided to terminate my mandate as the Chairman of the Management Board,” Volodymyr Kudrytsky said Tuesday in a Facebook post.
Kudrytsky said he had been the subject of an anonymous paid-for media campaign to discredit the company and his leadership by people - who he did not name - trying to gain control of the firm.
The company’s Western backers had urged against his removal ahead of the decision.
The EU’s ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Mathernova, in a letter published by Ukrainian media expressed “grave concern” over reports Kudrytsky was to be sacked, saying it “could compromise our collective ability to support Ukrenergo”.
