Ukraine accuses Russia of using nuclear plant for deadly rocket attack
India Today
Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russia of carrying out strikes in areas near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. At least 13 civilians were killed in the rocket strikes.
Ukraine accused Russia of firing rockets from around a captured nuclear power plant, killing at least 13 people and wounding 10, in the knowledge it would be risky for Ukraine to return fire.
The town Ukraine says Russia targeted - Marhanets - is one Moscow says its foes have used in the past to shell Russian soldiers at the Zaporizhzhia plant, which they seized in March.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday said Ukrainian forces would respond to the shelling of Marhanets. Ukraine's military said Russia also bombarded several other areas in the Zaporizhzhia region, including the coal-mining town of Vuhledar.
The mayor of Nikopol, a Ukrainian-held town near Marhanets across the Dnipro River from the nuclear plant, said on Telegram that Russian shelling had hit a community nearby almost nightly for the past week.
Calling on foreign allies to send more powerful weapons, Zelenskyy said in a late-night video address that Kyiv "will not leave today's Russian shelling of the Dnipropetrovsk region unanswered."
Ukrainians and the country's allies must think about "how to inflict the greatest possible losses on the occupiers in order to shorten the war," he said.
Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of imperilling the plant, Europe's largest nuclear complex, with attacks nearby.
