Andrei Trozhev, the former leading commander of the Wagner mercenary force, is said to be working on new volunteer units for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trozhev is now subordinate to the Russian Defense Ministry. Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for the presidential office, announced according to n-tv.de said that Putin had met with Trozhev and Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. The conversation was about how volunteer units could be deployed in Ukraine. The AFP news agency reports that Putin asked Trozhev to “oversee the formation of volunteer units that can take on various tasks, first and foremost, of course, in the zone of the special military operation.”
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Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have called on Russia to initiate an immediate withdrawal from Ukraine’s occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. A resolution states that soldiers must withdraw and the plant must be returned to Ukrainian control. It also calls for IAEA observers permanently stationed at Zaporizhzhya to be given free access to all areas of the nuclear plant. So far, according to n-tv.de been denied access to several reactor roofs.
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