►Russian and Ukrainian officials acknowledged Tuesday that an ammunition dump exploded in northern Crimea, the U.K. Ministry of Defense said. The Russian Defense Ministry blamed Tuesday’s explosions on “sabotage.” A senior Ukrainian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The New York Times an elite unit was responsible. Kyiv said the explosions destroyed nine Russian airplanes.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.N. head Antonio Guterres agreed Thursday on the terms of a trip by the International Atomic Energy Agency to the embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the presidential website said.
However, the plant has been under Russian control since early in the war, and it’s not certain the Kremlin will accede to the visit. A Russian Foreign Ministry official rejected the notion of withdrawing troops, saying it would leave the plant “vulnerable.”
The warring sides have been accusing each other of risking a nuclear calamity by shelling in the vicinity of the plant and, on Thursday, of plotting to attack the site and then blame the other party.
The facility, the largest one of its kind in Europe, generated 20% of Ukraine’s electricity before the war.
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