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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Natalia Zinets

Russian forces capture Ukraine's second biggest power plant, Ukraine says

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Vuhlehirska Power Station during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the town of Svitlodarsk in the Donetsk region, Ukraine May 25, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

Russian forces have taken over Ukraine's second biggest power plant, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday, following an earlier claim by Russian-backed forces to have captured it intact.

Seizing the Soviet-era coal-fired Vuhlehirsk power plant in eastern Ukraine would be Moscow's first strategic gain in more than three weeks in what it calls its "special operation" to demilitarise and "denazify" its neighbour.

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