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Russia continues to move troops to the borders of Ukraine
According to the group Information Resistance, redeployment of Russian troops on the eastern border of Ukraine continued during the past day. As the head of the Center for Military and Political Studies, Dmitry Tymchuk, said, rows of military vehicles heading to the state border were seen in Rostov, near Millerovo, Tarasovsk and Kamensk, numbering 150 APCs and 400 units of motor vehicles.
Last night the railway station Rostov Tovarnaya received 8 multiple rocket launchers Hurricane, 4 BTR-80 armored vehicles, and about a dozen units of automotive vehicles (including fuel trucks).
In the Belgorod region a row of military vehicles was seen, moving towards the state border (30-40 km from the border): about 30 units of automotive vehicles and about 10 units of tracked engineering equipment. -02D-
Politics
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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