RT News - September 1 2022 (09:00 MSK)

Officials say Ukrainian paratroopers have been landing in the south-eastern city of Energodar, near the embattled nuclear plant, and local air defense systems as well as military aircraft have been working to counter them. The escalation came as an International Atomic Energy Agency crew has arrived to visit to the nuclear facility. While European powers speak about African nations facing starvation, only two cargo ships carrying Ukraine's wheat have actually gone there, as others go to some of the world's richest nations. France braces its citizens for rolling blackouts coming in winter amid soaring energy prices while a ceramics company in Italy asks workers to sleep less and start earlier in the morning to reduce electricity costs for lighting and air conditioning. As the US approves another 4 billion dollars of military aid to Ukraine and Taiwan, it stops its free, at-home COVID testing program, due to lack of funding.