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Podolyak: Russian troops shell nuclear plant to cut off Ukraine from energy.
August 13, 2022 6:12 pm
Mykhailo Podolyak, the advisor to the President's Office, said that Russian troops are shelling the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to cut Ukraine's south from electricity and blame it on the Ukrainian Armed Forces. An unnamed engineer from the plant told BBC that Russian forces are deliberately destroying the powerlines.
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