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Kyiv — Ukraine accused Russia of occupying nuclear power plant At least 13 people were killed and many more injured Wednesday when it was exploited to fire rockets into a nearby town.
Makhanets, a town that Ukraine claims was targeted by Russia, was used by Moscow to shell Russian soldiers at the Zaporizhia factory in the past by its opponents, Moscow said. town, seized in March.
Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of endangering a nuclear power plant, Europe's largest nuclear facility, with a nearby attack.
United Nations nuclear watchdog warns of possible nuclear disaster Later, the seven major industrialized nations on Wednesday notified Russia to return its nuclear power plants to Ukraine.
Moscow, which had strong support from China on Wednesday on the basis for its February 24 invasion of Ukraine, shows no signs of being affected by their demands.
Beijing's ambassador to Moscow, Zhang Hanhui, has accused Washington of cornering Russia by repeatedly expanding the Western-led NATO military alliance and supporting Ukraine's EU membership.
"As the initiator and main instigator of the Ukrainian crisis, Washington is imposing unprecedented and comprehensive sanctions on Russia while disposing of arms and military equipment. We continue to supply Ukraine," Zhang was quoted as saying.
"Their ultimate goal is to impoverish and crush Russia with a protracted war and sanctions club." caught up in the state. Since US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit, China has conducted large-scale military exercises around the autonomous island it claims to be its own.
It did not comment on Ukraine's allegations, and Reuters was unable to independently verify Kyiv's allegations.Moscow said it was conducting what it called a "special military operation" aimed at securing the country against NATO expansion. It says it does not intentionally target civilians.
Ukraine and the West accuse Moscow of waging an unprovoked Imperial-style war of aggression.
New Russian Army.
Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff, knows that it is risky for Ukraine to fight back, and Russia has launched an offensive with impunity from Zaporizhia. said there is.
"The cowardly Russians can't do anything more, so they are attacking the town that is ignorantly hiding in the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant," he said on social media.
And the weapons are in factories where Ukrainian engineers continue to work.
Ukraine's state-owned nuclear power company warned that containers containing radioactive material could be shelled, and said it was essential for Kyiv to recapture its nuclear power plants by winter. It accuses Russia of wanting to connect the facility to the power grid.
says it is secured.
Valentin Leznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine, said Wednesday that the Russian attack on Marhanet was carried out with an 80 Grad rocket.
More than 20 buildings were damaged in the town across the Dnipro River from the power plant, he said.
Images provided by Ukrainian authorities showed windows in a rubble-strewn school corridor blown out and homes pierced by rockets.
Civil war has devastated Ukraine's economy, but there was some relief on Wednesday when foreign creditors backed Kyiv's demand to freeze payments on nearly $20 billion of international bonds for two years. . This should avoid cumbersome defaults.
Ukraine says it could save about $5 billion by managing its dwindling financial resources.
Stuart Culverhouse, chief his economist at the London-based research firm Tellimar, said: "Creditors were even surprised that the country had ever decided to keep the bonds up to date."
In another rare positive for Ukraine, the United Nations said: It said it expected a significant increase in applications for grain exports by vessel under brokered deals aimed at unblocking exports and easing global shortages and rising prices.
Britain, which supports Ukraine with arms, intelligence and training, said Wednesday it believed Russia had "almost certainly" set up a major new ground force to support the war. .
The new 3rd Corps was based in the city of Mulino, east of Moscow, the UK Defense Ministry said in an intelligence bulletin. But Russia would struggle to increase the numbers it needed, and new troops were unlikely to dictate the war, he added.
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