- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said on Monday that a new cutoff of power connecting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station to the national grid had placed the plant for a second time “a step away from a radiation catastrophe”.
- The final working reactor at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been disconnected from Ukraine’s grid after Russian shelling disrupted power lines, state nuclear operator Energoatom said.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said on Monday that a new cutoff of power connecting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station to the national grid had placed the plant for a second time “a step away from a radiation catastrophe”.
- The final working reactor at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been disconnected from Ukraine’s grid after Russian shelling disrupted power lines, state nuclear operator Energoatom said.
- Russia has revoked the licence of one of the country’s last major independent media companies, the Novaya Gazeta, in a move the newspaper’s Nobel Peace Prize winning editor-in-chief has called “a political hit job, without the slightest legal basis”.
- The European Union has signed a deal to release a further 500 million euros ($497m) in planned aid to Ukraine, as the bloc met to discuss measures to rein in soaring energy prices, including a possible price cap on gas.
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