NBC News' Josh Lederman has the latest on Ukraine’s surprise attack into Russia’s Kursk region.
Russia urged more civilians to flee an intensifying Ukrainian assault Monday after a stunning incursion that has seen Kyiv's forces advance some 20 miles and seize back the initiative in the two-and-a-half-year war. Fighting continued inside Russian territory for a seventh day following the incursion into the Kursk border region, with residents in parts of neighboring Belgorod also urged to flee their homes in the latest sign that the Kremlin had failed to repel the Ukrainian threat.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, said in a statement on X Sunday that its experts witnessed “strong dark smoke” coming from the plant’s northern area “following multiple explosions heard in the evening” but that there was no impact on nuclear safety. While smoke billowed from the site of the nuclear plant in southern Ukraine, it was also rising from the new battlefield in southern Russia.
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