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Added on the 06/10/2022 19:31:18 - Copyright : AFP EN
2022-05-01 09:03 'Russian missile strikes hit residential buildings in Kharkiv"
At least nine people have been killed in the latest wave of Russian strikes on Ukraine which cut power supplies to households and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
"I am astonished by the complacency" says Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, as the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant -- Europe's largest -- is left running on emergency power "for the sixth time" after a wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine. Speaking in Vienna to the IAEA's board of governors, Grossi warns "if we allow this to continue time after time, one day our luck will run out."
Ukrainian authorities said they thwarted a Russian attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region Wednesday as their air defense system intercepted and destroyed 13 explosive-laden drones, although wreckage from some of them damaged five buildings. No casualties were reported. FRANCE 24's Camille Knight explains.
The strikes came just hours after Ukraine announced that the country's military had retaken three Russian-occupied villages.