Artillery shells rained down on a city close to Europe\u0027s biggest nuclear plant overnight and Russian missiles hit targets near Odesa,.
Aug. 24 will also mark 31 years of Ukraine’s independence from Soviet rule and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a nightly video address called for vigilance, saying Moscow could try “something particularly ugly.”
“Ukraine, of course, had nothing to do with this because we are not a criminal state, like the Russian Federation, and moreover we are not a terrorist state,” Mykhailo Podolyak said on Ukrainian television, suggesting the incident was “Karmic” payback for supporters of Moscow’s invasion.
The fighting in the proximity of Zaporizhzhia and Saturday’s missile strike on the southern Ukrainian town of Voznesensk, not far from Ukraine’s second-largest atomic plant, has spurred fears of a nuclear accident.Article content There were no fresh reports of incidents in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, after a series of explosions made headlines in recent weeks.
In the latest incident, a drone attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet was thwarted on Saturday morning, according to a Telegram post by Mikhail Razvozhayev, Crimea’s Russian-appointed governor, who is not recognized by the West.Article content
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