The war-related interruption highlights “how precarious the situation is” at Europe's largest nuclear plant.
The Ukrainian president’s office said strikes Moscow ordered in retaliation for the bridge attack killed at least 14 people and wounded 34 in the last day. Western officials meeting in Brussels discussed their plans to maintain winter weapon and aid deliveries to Ukraine.The bridge is a key supply artery for Moscow’s faltering war effort in southern Ukraine.
"Basically what we’ve got here is the weaponization of civil nuclear, perhaps for the first time," Paul Dorfman, a nuclear expert at England's University of Sussex said. "And in an increasingly unstable world, it’s important to understand this and what this implies for nuclear worldwide." The span opened four years after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, serving as a symbol of Moscow's regional dominance as well as a crucial route for getting military supplies to Ukraine and Russian travelers to a popular vacation destination.
"The entire activity of the FSB and the Investigative Committee is nonsense," Defense Ministry spokesman Andriy Yusov told reporters. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office, said Russian shelling left at least 14 people dead in the Zaporizhzhia region and the Donetsk region to the east. At least 34 people were wounded in five regions, he wrote on Telegram.
Near the southern city of Mykolaiv, Ukrainian forces shot down nine Iranian Shahed-136 drones and destroyed eight Kalibr cruise missiles, the presidential office said.
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