In other developments, radiation levels at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant - site of the world’s worst nuclear accident - did not increase on Saturday, a day after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the shuttered plant in the Kyiv region, according to Ukraine’s State Agency for Exclusion Zone Management.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that Europe cannot rule out the possibility that “American might say no to Europe on issues that threaten it” and that the time has come for the creation of an “armed forces of Europe”.
Russia claims its forces have seized the village of Berezivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, marking a potential shift in the ongoing conflict.
The UN International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday that the strike, which punched a hole in the structure and briefly started a fire, did not breach the plant’s inner containment shell.
Russian tactics involve overwhelming settlements with aerial bombardments and artillery fire, followed by infantry assaults on vulnerable Ukrainian positions.
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