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Area near Ukraine Nuclear Plant hit despite US Pleas

Area near Ukraine nuclear plant hit again despite US pleas

Area near Ukraine nuclear plant hit despite US pleas

newslooks- NIKOPOL, Ukraine (AP) —

Russian shelling across the river from Ukraine’s main nuclear power plant wounded four people Monday, an official said, hours after the latest international pleas to spare the area from attacks to prevent a catastrophe.

Meanwhile, Russia blamed Ukrainian spy agencies for the car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow over the weekend that killed the daughter of a far-right Russian political thinker and ardent supporter of the invasion of Ukraine.

A Ukrainian serviceman looks at his phone on his bed in the village where their unit is currently staying in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

On the battleground, the city of Nikopol, about 10 kilometers (six miles) downstream from the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, came under fire three times overnight from rockets and mortar shells. Houses, a kindergarten, a bus station and stores were hit, authorities said.

Mayor Oleksandr Saiuk said four people were wounded, and two of them were hospitalized.

Ukrainian servicemen sit in their bunks in the village where their unit is currently staying in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

The reports of sustained shelling around Europe’s biggest nuclear plant further highlighted the dangers of a war that will hit the half-year mark on Wednesday.

After U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged caution during a visit to Ukraine last week, U.S. President Joe Biden further discussed the issue with the leaders of France, Germany and Britain on Sunday.

Lyudmila Kolesnik, center, the mother of activist Julia Chaika, mourns over her coffin during a funeral service in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Julia Chaika was killed fighting Russian forces on Aug. 18. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

The four leaders stressed the need to avoid military operations in the region to prevent a nuclear disaster and called for the U.N.’s atomic energy agency to be allowed to visit the plant as soon as possible.

Ukrainian servicemen eat dinner in the village where they’re currently staying in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

On Saturday night, a car bombing killed 29-year-old TV commentator Darya Dugina, whose father, political theorist Alexander Dugin, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain.”

On Monday, Russia’s Federal Security Service, the main successor to the KGB, said the killing was “prepared and perpetrated by the Ukrainian special services.” It charged that the bombing was carried out by a Ukrainian citizen who left Russia for Estonia afterward.

Dilapidated billboards line a street as a military vehicle drives through Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

The FSB said that the suspect, Natalya Vovk, rented an apartment in the building where Dugina lived and shadowed her. Vovk and her daughter were at a nationalist festival that Dugin and his daughter attended just before the killing, the FSB said.

Ukraine officials have denied any involvement.

Residents wheel their water bottles away after filling them up at a house with a private well in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. The homeowner allows residents to fill up for two hours each day as the next closest well for many in this neighborhood, which hasn’t had running water for months, is almost one kilometer (0.6 miles) away. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

On the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, anxiety has spread following a spate of fires and explosions at Russian facilities over the past two weeks. The governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, ordered that signs showing the location of bomb shelters be placed in the city, which had long seemed untouchable.

A Ukrainian military tank drives down the road in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Sevastopol, the Crimean port that is the home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, has seen a series of drone attacks. A drone exploded at the fleet’s headquarters on July 31, and another was shot down over it last week. Authorities said air-defense systems have shot down other drones as well.

Yulia Lukianova, right, fills bottles with water with the help of Mykolai Moroz, as residents wait in line Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022, in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. A local homeowner with a private well allows residents to fill up at his home for two hours each day as the next closest well for many in this neighborhood, which hasn’t had running water for months, is almost one kilometer (0.6 miles) away. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Razvozhaev said on Telegram that the city is well-protected, but “it is better to know where the shelters are.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t directly mention the war during a speech marking National Flag Day on Monday but echoed some of the justifications cited for the invasion.

A bicyclist pedals with a dog through a street lined with barricades in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

“We are firm in pursuing in the international arena only those policies that meet the fundamental interests of the motherland,” Putin said. He maintains that Russia sent troops into Ukraine to protect it against the encroaching West.

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