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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/29/2022 10:10:05 AM
The United Nations nuclear watchdog on Monday injected a ray of hope in the standoff over the beleaguered Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant, announcing that its mission of top experts ``is now on its way'' to the facility, which has seen relentless shelling as a focal point in the Ukraine war.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/28/2022 11:55:26 AM
Russian rocket and artillery strikes hit areas across the Dnieper River from Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, as fears persisted that fighting in the vicinity could damage the plant and cause a radiation leak.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/27/2022 10:19:44 PM
Ukraine and Russia traded fresh accusations of shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Saturday, as its operator warned of the risk of a radioactive leak.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/27/2022 3:41:36 PM
Concern about the potential for a radiation leak at Europe's largest nuclear power plant persisted as Ukrainian authorities said Saturday that Russian forces fired on areas just across the river and Russia claimed Ukrainian shelling hit a building where nuclear fuel is stored.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
8/27/2022 3:02:59 PM
Russia late Friday blocked agreement on the final document of a four-week review of the U.N. treaty considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament which criticized its military takeover of Europe's largest nuclear plant soon after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, an act that has raised fears of a nuclear disaster.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/27/2022 1:39:30 PM
Russian forces fired missiles and artillery on Ukrainian-held areas across the river from Europe's largest nuclear power plant, authorities said Saturday as concern persisted about safety at the Russian-controlled plant after it was temporarily knocked offline.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/26/2022 2:53:34 PM
A team from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to visit the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine soon but more shelling was reported in the area overnight.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/26/2022 1:21:35 PM
Staff at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant occupied by Russian soldiers were on Friday working to reconnect its reactors to the national power grid, the state energy operator said.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/23/2022 8:33:20 PM
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday spoke by telephone to his French counterpart Catherine Colonna about an expected visit by independent inspectors to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/22/2022 11:51:55 AM
Only hours after the latest international pleas to spare the area around Ukraine's main nuclear plant from attacks, there were new claims of Russian shelling close to the Zaporizhzhya facilities early Monday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/21/2022 7:44:35 PM
The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and the United States on Sunday urged military restraint around the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, as they vowed to maintain their backing for Kyiv in the war.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/20/2022 10:27:57 PM
Twelve Ukrainians, including three children, were wounded Saturday after Russian forces attacked an apartment block and several houses in the city of Voznesensk, near a key nuclear plant, prosecutors said.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
8/19/2022 5:50:26 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron called for independent inspections at the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the Kremlin said in a statement Friday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/19/2022 3:41:51 PM
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Friday asked that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station not be cut off from Ukraine's grid, following Ukrainian reports that Moscow was planning to do so.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
8/18/2022 1:24:46 PM
Turkey's leader and the UN chief met with in Ukraine with President Volodymr Zelenskyy on Thursday in a high-powered bid to ratchet down a war raging for nearly six months. But little immediate progress was reported.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/17/2022 11:06:46 PM
It is "urgent" the UN's atomic watchdog be allowed to inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine that is under Russian military control, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/14/2022 8:05:14 PM
The risk of disaster at Europe's largest nuclear plant is "increasing every day", the mayor of the city where it is located told AFP on Sunday, after Ukraine and Russia exchanged blame for fresh shelling around the facility.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/14/2022 3:20:18 PM
Russian forces on Sunday fired rockets on the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine, killing at least one person, and a Russian diplomat called on Ukraine to offer security assurances so that international inspectors could visit a nuclear power station that has come under fire.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/13/2022 5:12:52 PM
Kyiv and Moscow accused each other on Saturday of striking the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine, which has been shelled repeatedly in the past week.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
8/10/2022 9:34:01 PM
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Thursday to address the crisis at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex, the power plant that Kyiv and Moscow accuse each other of having bombed, diplomatic sources said.
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