Russia Threatens Europe’s Largest Nuclear Plant After Missiles Injure Dozens

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News

KYIV/MOSCOW/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned that Russia may be planning to “simulate an attack” on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant after Russian missiles injured dozens earlier on Tuesday.

He said Russian forces in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant they occupy placed “objects resembling explosives” on the roofs of buildings at the site.

Citing Ukrainian intelligence, Zelenskiy said the objects had been positioned on the roof of several power units of the power plant that Russia currently holds.

Earlier on Tuesday, Zelenskiy briefed the French president, Emmanuel Macron, on Russia’s “dangerous provocations” at the plant in south-eastern Ukraine.

He said he and Macron had “agreed to keep the situation under maximum control together with the IAEA,” the United Nations nuclear watchdog.

Zelensky spoke hours after authorities said at least 43 people, including 12 children, were injured when a missile struck the carpark of a residential building in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.

What is believed to be a Russian Iskander missile landed in the town of Pervomaisky at about 13:30 local time.

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said there were only residential buildings in the area where a one-year-old and a 10-month-old were reportedly among the injured.

Kostin said targeting the residential buildings amounted to “another war crime” from Russia.

Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February last year, has consistently denied targeting civilians in a war that has killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people on both sides.

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