03/04/2022

Russia Seizes Europe's Biggest Nuclear Plant in 'Reckless' Assault

Meanwhile, combat raged elsewhere in parts of Ukraine

Russian forces in Ukraine seized Europe's biggest nuclear power plant on Friday in what Washington called a reckless assault that risked catastrophe, although a blaze in a training building was extinguished and officials said the facility was now safe.

Combat raged elsewhere in Ukraine as Russian forces surrounded and bombarded several cities in the second week of an invasion launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A Ukrainian presidential adviser said an advance had been halted on the southern city of Mykolayiv, after local authorities said Russian troops had entered it. If captured, the city of 500,000 people would be the biggest yet to fall.

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