🔴 Ukraine’s nuclear power provider has accused Russia of kidnapping the head of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
this week following “sham” referendums. Russia now claims to have sovereignty over 15 per cent of Ukraine.
Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday that the move marked a “pivotal moment” in the course of the war, describing it as the “largest attempted annexation of European territory by force since the Second World War.” The UK’s Ministry of Defence said that the annexation meant Russia was “expending strategically valuable military assets in attempts to achieve tactical advantage, and in the process is killing civilians it now claims are its own citizens.”
Following news of the annexation, President Joe Biden warned Russia that “America and its allies are not going to be intimidated” by “reckless words and threats”. Addressing Putin directly, Mr Biden said: “America’s fully prepared, with our Nato allies, to defend every single inch of Nato territory. Mr Putin, don’t misunderstand what I’m saying: every inch.”
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