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Russia attacks another Ukrainian nuclear facility, status unknown
The attack took place two days after Russia attacked the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Europe's largest nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, having already captured the Chernobyl nuclear power complex in the north.
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Ukrainian servicemen ride on tanks towards the front line with Russian forces in the Lugansk region of Ukraine on February 25, 2022. Ukrainian forces fought off Russian troops in the capital Kyiv on the second day of a conflict that has claimed dozens of lives, as the EU approved sanctions targeting President Vladimir Putin. Small arms fire and explosions were heard in the city's northern district of Obolonsky as what appeared to be an advance party of Russia's invasion force left a trail of destruction. (AFP/Anatolii Stepanov)
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ussian forces shelled a nuclear research institute in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine on Sunday damaging several buildings, though it is unclear whether any nuclear material was released at the facility as a result of the shelling, Ukraine's nuclear regulators said.
The attack took place two days after Russia attacked the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Europe's largest nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, having already captured the Chernobyl nuclear power complex in the north.
The regulators said that a transformer facility at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology was destroyed, and another facility containing nuclear fuel was damaged. It is unknown whether radiation levels around the institute have spiked and the authorities are looking into the damage.
The Ukrainian security authorities said that the attack on the institute could cause a large-scale environmental disaster.
The International Atomic Energy Agency's Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi expressed "grave concern" Sunday in a statement, saying that Russian forces control the Zaporizhzhya plant and that communication with operating staff at the power station has been cut off.
