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Ukraine Three radiation sensors were damaged at the Zaporizhia power plant on Sunday when Russian artillery fire resumed, injuring a worker.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Saturday night's shelling "Russian nuclear terrorism" and justified more international sanctions, this time against Moscow's nuclear sector. Kyiv said Russia hit power lines at a power plant on Friday.
However, Russian-installed authorities in the region said Ukraine had struck the site with multiple rocket launchers, damaging areas near administration buildings and storage facilities.
Reuters was unable to verify either side's version.
The events at the Zaporizhia ruins stunned the world.
"[It] highlights the very real risk of a nuclear disaster," International Atomic Energy Agency Director Rafael Mariano Grossi warned Saturday.
Elsewhere, while the first cargo ship was docked since Russia's February 24th invasion, another four ships sailed from Ukrainian Black Sea ports, prompting Ukrainian Deals to unblock food exports and ease global shortages have accelerated.
Her four ships sailing carried approximately 170,000 tons of corn and other provisions. They sailed under an agreement brokered by the United Nations and Turkey. and Ukraine together accounted for nearly a third of world wheat exports. The turmoil since then has threatened famine in several parts of the world.
Battle of Donbass
Putin's forces are in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow separatists occupied territory after the Kremlin annexed Crimea. trying to take complete control of
Russian forces stepped up their attacks north and northwest of the city of Donetsk in Donbass on Sunday, the Ukrainian military said. The Russians attacked Ukrainian positions near the heavily fortified settlements of Piski and Avdiuka, and shelled other parts of the Donetsk region, it said. , says Russia is gathering troops in southern Ukraine to prevent a possible counterattack near Kherson.
Ukraine's chief war crimes prosecutor said about 26,000 suspected war crimes committed since the invasion were being investigated, with 135 indicted and 15 of them in custody. Stated. Russia denies targeting civilians.
Outside of Ukraine, a proxy war was waged in the International Chess Federation, with former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovych winning his second term as president, defeating Ukraine's Andriy Barishpolets.
And after days of controversy, Amnesty International apologized for the "pain and outrage" caused by reports accusing Ukraine of endangering civilians. This infuriated Zelensky and forced the head of the rights group's Ukraine office to resign.
(reported by Reuters bureau, written by Andrew Cawthorne, edited by John Stonestreet and Frances Kerry)