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A Russian mine has exploded near the reactor room of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukraine has said.
Energatom, which runs the country’s power plants, said on Thursday morning that a device detonated at the Zaporizhzhia plant in the southeast.
Earlier, residents in Kherson gave harrowing accounts of their suffering in an alleged Russian torture chamber in the recently liberated Ukrainian city.
Alleged victims told Human Rights Watch of being electrocuted and stabbed, and having guns held to their head and knives to their genitals as their fellow detainees lost their lives in a series of facilities, including one known as the “hole”, as Russia occupied the city between March and November.
The accounts came as the United Nations said it was “appalled” by videos circulating online, including one purporting to show Russian troops beheading a Ukrainian soldier, over which Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed legal revenge.
