Ukrainian forces have reported heavy Russian shelling and attempts to advance on several towns in the eastern region of Donetsk that has become a key focus of the near six-month war, but said they had repelled many of the attacks.
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FIGHTING
* "Every Russian soldier who either shoots at the (Zaporizhzhia nuclear) plant, or shoots using the plant as cover, must understand that he becomes a special target for our intelligence agents, for our special services, for our army," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an address on Saturday.
* The exiled mayor of Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhia plant is located, said on Telegram on Sunday the city had been shelled from the suburbs, causing civilian casualties. Local Russian-installed official Vladimir Rogov wrote on Telegram on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were shelling the plant.
* Russia, in a daily briefing, said it had taken control of Udy, a village in the eastern Kharkiv region.
* Particularly heavy fighting has focused on the village of Pisky, near Donetsk Airport, the British Defence Ministry said in its daily intelligence bulletin on Twitter.
* Reuters could not confirm battlefield reports independently.
DIPLOMACY
* North Korean state media said Russian President Vladimir Putin told leader Kim Jong-un the two countries would expand "comprehensive and constructive" ties.
* Any possible seizure of Russian assets by the United States will completely destroy Moscow's bilateral relations with Washington, TASS quoted the head of the North American Department at the Russian foreign ministry on Saturday as saying.
ECONOMY
* The United Nations-chartered ship Brave Commander will depart Ukraine for Ethiopia in the coming days after it finishes loading more than 23,000 metric tonnes of wheat in Pivdennyi, a UN official said. It will be the first humanitarian food aid cargo bound for Africa under the UN-brokered grains access deal.
* The first ship to leave Ukraine under a deal to resume grain exports from the country two weeks ago was approaching the Syrian port of Tartous on Sunday, two shipping sources said, after the vessel had been sailing with its transponder off.
* The first ship carrying Ukrainian wheat to be exported under the UN-brokered deal arrived in Istanbul on Sunday, the Joint Coordination Centre based in the Turkish city, said.
Australian Associated Press
