Live: Battles rage across Ukraine's east, fierce standoff in Sievierodonetsk
Fierce street-to-street fighting is ongoing in the key eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, with the Russian shelling hitting a nitrogen fertilizer plant sheltering hundreds of civilians, resulting in a large fire, Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Haidai said.
Outside of the Donbas, Ukrainian officials have reported that the army has made progress in repelling the Russian forces in the Kherson region, while the Ternopil region was bombarded overnight by the Russians.
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The connection between the Ukrainian nuclear power plant of Zaporizhzhia -- under Russian control since early March, and the International Atomic Energy Agency -- is restored almost a month and a half after the loss of transmissions, announced the Ukrainian operator, Energoatom.
The connection had been lost on 30 May, "when the Russians cut off the Ukrainian cell phone operator Vodafone at Enerhodar", the city that hosts the plant.
"Thanks to the joint efforts of Energoatom and Vodafone ... the connection between the site's nuclear material monitoring servers and the IAEA was restored," Energoatom added in the statement.
The IAEA said this week that it was "actively working" to organize a visit to the Zaporizhzhia plant, which Ukraine opposes as long as the site is occupied by the Russians.
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