Russian Strikes at Ukraine’s Experimental Nuclear Site Hint at Broader Battle

The International Atomic Energy Agency is accusing Moscow of ‘sustained targeting’ of a research lab.

AP/Oleksandr Brynza
The general director of the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Mykola Shulga, shows the damage to the nuclear laboratory building after a Russian attack, May 18, 2023. AP/Oleksandr Brynza

The single comforting thing about the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in 1986 is that it did not happen during a time of war. Since Russia mounted its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — the biggest one in Europe — has repeatedly been caught in the crossfire. 

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