- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country was worried of “another Chernobyl”, amid ongoing fighting at the Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine during a trilateral meeting on Thursday with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and UN chief Antonio Guterres.
- Zelenskyy has urged the United Nations to “ensure” the security of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant which is currently under Russian control.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country was worried of “another Chernobyl”, amid ongoing fighting at the Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine during a trilateral meeting on Thursday with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and UN chief Antonio Guterres.
- Zelenskyy has urged the United Nations to “ensure” the security of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant which is currently under Russian control.
- Seven people have died and at least 20 were wounded in a pre-dawn shelling of a residential area in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the regional governor said.
- More ships with exports have left Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, bringing the number of vessels to leave Ukraine under a UN-brokered grain export deal to 25.
This live blog is now closed, thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Thursday, August 18: