Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russia of exploiting its position in a nuclear power plant it had seized to target a nearby town in a rocket attack that killed at…
* Russia launched 80 Grad rockets at the town of Marhanets across the Dnipro river from the nuclear plant on Tuesday, Valentyn Reznychenko, governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk region, said, adding that more than 20 buildings were damaged.
* After a warning that there was a “very real risk of a nuclear disaster” at the plant from the International Atomic Energy Agency, foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations demanded that Russia hand it back, something Moscow seems unlikely to do. * Moscow had said the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition rather than an attack. Kyiv has not taken responsibility for the attacks.* U.S. President Joe Biden signed documents on Tuesday endorsing Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO, the most significant expansion of the military alliance since the 1990s as it responds to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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