He also brushed aside the impact of sanctions that have starved Russian industry of crucial components like microchips.
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been controlled by Russian forces since March but is operated by its Ukrainian staff.
He led the Soviet Union from 1985 until it was dissolved in 1991 after he introduced several social and economic reforms that were more popular abroad than at home.
Russian shelling of the Chaplyne train station in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region killed at least 22 people on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday praised Ukraine’s armed forces in a video message to celebrate the country’s independence day.
Russia has welcomed the first shipment of grain from the port of Odesa on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast as a “positive’’ development.
Russia is blaming the reduced volume of gas deliveries on technical issues resulting from the sanctions imposed by the West over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Their dismissal was announced in a televised address accused of violating Article 47 of the Disciplinary Statute of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The five-day state visit to the city of Lisbon culminated in the signing of MoUs in diverse sectors between Nigeria and Portugal.
According to the latest information from the authorities, 59 people were injured and several dozen remain missing.
