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Images show houses up in flames in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut as artillery fire roars through the area. Bakhmut found itself on the path of Russian troops pushing to take over the Donetsk region, causing many of its residents to flee. Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky has called for civilians to leave the frontline region bearing the brunt of the Kremlin's offensive. IMAGES
NATO Foreign Ministers meet following Russia's shelling of a nuclear power plant in Ukraine as the conflict intensifies. Ukraine has accused the Kremlin of "nuclear terror", after Europe's largest atomic power plant was attacked and taken over, sparking Western horror at the threat of Russia's war contaminating all of Europe. IMAGES
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg decries Russia's "recklessness" over the shelling of a nuclear power plant in Ukraine and demands Moscow stop the war against its neighbour. SOUNDBITE
Mortar shells fall near the frontline between Ukraine and Russia next to Novoluganske, where Ukraine's interior minister, Denys Monastyrskiy, met journalists on a tour in the trench line separating government forces from Russian-backed rebels. There is no sign that anyone was hurt in the volley of shells. IMAGES
Workers from Bouygues Construction and other companies began to move the New Safe Confinement, or NSC, into position to cover the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, in order to protect it from leaking radioactive material. The NSC project will replace the original Soviet shell installed after the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986. The NSC is expected to safely contain Chernobyl's radioactive emissions for the next 100 years.
The United States denounces Russia's veto that ended a UN panel monitoring sanctions on North Korea, accusing Moscow of seeking to hide its growing military cooperation. "Russia's actions today have cynically undermined international peace and security, all to advance the corrupt bargain that Moscow has struck with the DPRK," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller says, referring to the North by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. SOUNDBITE
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