Attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant triggers worldwide alarm | AP News

Russian forces pressed on with their week-old offensive on multiple fronts, though they did not appear to gain significant ground in fighting Friday.

And President Vladimir Putin signed a law making it a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison to spread so-called fake news, including anything that goes against the official government line on the war.

The attack triggered global alarm and fear of a catastrophe that could dwarf the world’s worst nuclear disaster, at Ukraine’s Chernobyl in 1986.

Authorities said Russian troops had taken control of the overall site but plant staff continued to run it.

In the U.S., Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the episode “underscores the recklessness with which the Russians have been perpetrating this unprovoked invasion.” At an emergency meeting of the U.N.

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In the wake of the attack, Zelenskyy appealed again to the West to enforce a no-fly zone over his country.

Russian forces, meanwhile, did not make significant progress Friday in their offensive to sever Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, which would deal a severe blow to its economy and could worsen an already dire humanitarian situation.

A total of 331 civilians had been confirmed killed in the invasion, but the true number is probably much higher, the U.N.

“And if we win, and I’m sure we’ll win, this will be the victory of the whole democratic world.

He said Ukrainian forces were still holding the northern city of Chernihiv and the southern city of Mykolaiv.

As explosions sounded on the fringes of Kyiv, Dmytro Shybalov and Anna Panasyk smiled and blushed at the civil registry office where they married Friday.

Sergei Grits in Odesa, Ukraine; Jamey Keaten in Geneva; Vanessa Gera in Warsaw, Poland; Frank Jordans in Berlin; Matt Sedensky in New York; Robert Burns in Washington; and other AP journalists from around the world contributed to this report.

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