VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. nuclear watchdog is pushing Ukraine and Russia to agree to local ceasefires so that external power can be restored to Ukraine’s huge nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, two diplomats familiar with the plan told The Associated Press. The plant is in an area under Russian control since early in Moscow’s…
Intense Russian strikes Sunday on Ukraine killed five people in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and Lviv in the west and badly damaged energy infrastructure, severing power supplies to tens of thousands. Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as the weather chills. “This Sunday night, Russia launched yet another barrage of missiles and…
The site of Ukraine’s defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant — partially destroyed in a 1986 meltdown — lost power on Wednesday after Russia shelled a nearby substation, Kyiv said. The UN’s atomic energy watchdog said the blackout affected the confinement structure housing the plant’s damaged reactor core, and that two emergency diesel generators were now supplying…
Russia dropped five glide bombs on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine last night into Tuesday killing one person. In the Odesa region, Russian ballistic missiles also struck the town center of Tatarbunary, located some 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the border with Romania, killing one person. Source link
By Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Wednesday that its stance on ending the war in Ukraine has not changed since President Vladimir Putin set out his conditions last year: the full withdrawal of Kyiv’s forces from key Ukrainian regions and the abandonment of its NATO ambitions. Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are…
Russian strikes on a penal colony in the frontline region of Zaporizhzhia in southwestern Ukraine overnight killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 80 others, regional Ukrainian military and Zaporizhzhia’s governor said on Tuesday. Zaporizhzhia governor Ivan Fedorov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that the correctional facility’s buildings were destroyed, and…