Russia’s first missile barrage against Ukraine in weeks knocks nuclear plant off grid for hours
‘Each time we are rolling a dice. And if we allow this to continue time after time then one day our luck will run out,’ says head of UN nuclear watchdog
Russia has launched a huge wave of missile strikes across Ukraine, killing a number of civilians and forcing Europe’s largest nuclear power plant off the electrical grid for hours.
It is the first search mass attack in weeks, with the strikes including the use of hypersonic cruise missiles – one of Moscow’s most valuable weapons which travel at such speed they can evade air defences.
“The occupiers can only terrorise civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them," said Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done.”
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