U.S. accuses Russia of 'war crime' with power plant attack as NATO warns Putin's onslaught to get worse

U.N. Security Council will meet again Friday after Russia's attack on nuclear plant

before taking control of the facility. Ukraine's nuclear energy agency said a fire sparked by Russian shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, about 400 miles southeast of Kyiv, was extinguished with no risk of radiation leaks.

Putin's brutal invasion entered its ninth day with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accusing him of"nuclear terror" and officials in the northeast city of Chernihiv reporting dozens of civilian deaths from indiscriminate Russian shelling.

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