The Kerch Strait Bridge that links Russia to annexed Crimea is a key supply route for Russian troops. Putin had hailed its construction as a win.
The European Union said Russia’s seizure of the plant was “illegal, and legally null and void.”
In a statement from foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, the bloc demanded that Russia “fully withdraw its military forces and equipment and hand back control of the NPP to its rightful owner, Ukraine.” The bloc, which is considering Ukraine’s application to join, has not recognized the Kremlin’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions, including Zaporizhzhia.
, Zelensky said in his nightly address Friday, including in Luhansk, one of four Ukrainian regions that Russia claimed to annex.which Kyiv’s troops haveThe Russian-appointed administration in Kherson said it plans to evacuate families. Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the administration, told Russian media people would be sent to Crimea and Russia’s Rostov region “for the duration of the tough period” due to Ukrainian shelling.
after meeting with Zelensky in Kyiv on Thursday. The U.N. nuclear watchdog has sought to negotiate a buffer zone at the Zaporizhzhia facility in southeast Ukraine, which Russian forces control. U.S. officials stressed they saw no evidence that Russia had taken the measures necessary to use its nuclear arsenal
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