The Coordinating Council of Teachers' Syndicates said on March 19 that imprisonment, dismissal, deportation, and court sentences have failed to deter teachers from their desire to accompany the people of Iran in the direction of fundamental changes in the Islamic republic. In response, the authorities have summoned, detained, and jailed a growing number of protesters and activists, actions that have failed to stop the rallies. In recent years, Iranian teachers have taken to the streets across the country to demand better pay and working conditions. The rallies also came amid reports from the semiofficial Tasnim news agency that said numerous teachers across Iran had yet to receive their salaries for the previous month. The demonstrations came after a teachers' union had warned the government to meet its demands or face protests. Reports published on social media showed teachers gathered in front of education departments on March 28 in the cities of Tabriz, Bojnurd, Zanjan, Malayer, Ardabil, Kermanshah, and Hamedan demanding better financial conditions. Iranian teachers have protested in several different cities around the country over wages and poor living standards as unrest over social and economic issues that has plagued Iran for almost a year continues. With reporting by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, Reuters, AFP, and AP " is playing some political games, balancing between Russia and Ukraine," Kotin said. He also criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency's handling of the situation around Zaporizhzhya, which before the war supplied around one-fifth of Ukraine's domestically generated energy. "The occupiers bring their machinery there, including missile systems, from which they already shell the other side of the Dnieper River and the territory of Nikopol," Kotin said.
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No injuries were immediately reported.Ī day earlier, Maksym Marchenko, head of the Odesa military administration, said Russian troops had fired three missiles on the Odesa region, with one missile being shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.Įlsewhere, Ukrainian nuclear agency Enerhoatom President Petro Kotin said in a televised interview that the situation at Zaporizhzhya was "extremely tense" and pressure on the Russians to free the area’s nuclear plant "insufficient."Īround 500 Russian soldiers are said to be controlling access to Zaporizhzhya, which lies on the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine and has been in Russian hands since the early weeks of the invasion. Late on July 16, in Odesa, a key port city on the Black Sea that has not seen heavy shelling as of yet, a Russian missile hit a warehouse, igniting flames and sending up a plume of black smoke. The Ukrainian military's General Staff said early on July 16 that their forces had successfully repelled assault operations by Russian troops near the Spirne-Ivano-Daryivka areas of Donetsk. Liza: The Treasured Child Killed By A Russian Missile The victims are civilians,” Bolvinov added. “The bodies of three people were found under the rubble.
“Four Russian rockets, presumably fired from around Belgorod at night, at about 3:30 a.m., hit a residential building, a school, and administrative buildings,” Bolvinov wrote on Facebook. Serhiy Bolvinov, deputy head of the Kharkiv regional police, said Russian rockets hit a two-story apartment block and other buildings. Ukrainian officials said the Kremlin's next move could be a full-scale attack on the city of 1.45 million people. The northeast city of Kharkiv, the country's second-largest, has been blasted by heavy bombardments in recent days. At least 39 people remained missing following the strike.Īfter failing to take Kyiv in the early days of the war, Russia has turned its main focus on taking all of the Donbas - consisting of the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.īut fresh attacks have been reported as well in the north and south of Ukraine. officials rejected that assertion and said the attacks hit civilian sites. Russia claimed the strike targeted officers' housing, but Ukrainian and U.S. The reports could not be independently confirmed, but they come amid a flurry of deadly Russian strikes on civilian sites, including an attack in the historic city of Vinnytsya on July 15 that killed 24 people. Residents of Kyiv sought cover on July 16 as air-raid sirens blared across the Ukrainian capital, while Ukraine's most senior atomic official accused Russian troops occupying Europe's largest nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhya of using it to shell nearby areas and store advanced weapons. For all of RFE/RL's coverage of the war, click here. RFE/RL's Live Briefinggives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion, Kyiv's counteroffensives, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians.
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