Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the US was 'deeply concerned' that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was now a Russian military base used to fire on nearby Ukrainian forces.
The United States has accused Russia of using Ukraine’s biggest nuclear power plant as a “nuclear shield” by stationing troops there, preventing Ukrainian forces from returning fire and risking a terrible nuclear accident.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine has sparked the biggest conflict in Europe since World War Two, killing thousands, displacing millions and leaving large parts of Ukraine in rubble. The Sierra Leone-flagged ship Razoni will head to the port of Tripoli, Lebanon, after passing through Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait linking the Black Sea, which is dominated by Russia’s navy, to the Mediterranean. It is carrying 26,527 tonnes of corn.
Known as Europe’s breadbasket, Ukraine hopes to export 20 million tons of grain held in silos and 40 million tons from the harvest now under way, initially from Odesa and nearby Pivdennyi and Chornomorsk, to help clear the silos for the new crop. After failing to capture the capital Kyiv early in the war, Russia now aims to capture the eastern Donbas region, made up of Donetsk and Luhansk, partially occupied by Russia-backed separatists before the invasion, and capture more of the south, having already annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Serhiy Gaidai, governor of Luhansk region, which is nearly all under Russian control, said foreign fighters were arriving to help Russian forces.
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