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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo and Luke Harding in Kyiv

Zelenskiy: Russia may be preparing to trigger nuclear plant explosion

People in hazmat gear
Ukrainians conduct nuclear disaster response drills in the vicinity of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Photograph: Ukrinform/Shutterstock

Russia could be ready to provoke a localised explosion at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Ukraine’s President Zelenskiy has said.

Zelenskiy cited Ukrainian intelligence as the source of his information and called for greater international attention to the situation at the facility, the largest nuclear plant in Europe. Since seizing it last year, Moscow has turned it into a military base from which it has bombarded Ukrainian towns across the Dnipro reservoir.

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