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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Graham-Harrison in Kyiv and agencies

Russia to stage ‘provocation’ at nuclear plant, warns Ukrainian military

An Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuer attends an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday in case of a possible incident at the plant.
A Ukrainian emergency ministry worker attends an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday in case of a possible incident at the plant. Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

Ukraine’s military intelligence has warned that Russian forces may be preparing to stage a “provocation” at a nuclear power plant they control, as the UN secretary general, António Guterres, called for an urgent withdrawal of military forces and equipment from the site.

Guterres, on his second visit to Ukraine since the Russian invasion, joined the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, for meetings and then a press conference in the western city of Lviv.

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