Among the fund’s investors are the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which committed 30 million euros, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which invested 50 million euros.
"The (Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant) lost all off-site power and power lines to other (nuclear power plants) were also impacted. The IAEA is actively following developments in order to assess impact on nuclear safety."
At least one person in Kyiv has been injured, local authorities reported. Ukraine's Air Force has warned that Russian ballistic missiles are targeting multiple regions, including the capital.
This is Chris York reporting from Kyiv on day 1,427 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Russia used "updated tactics" during its latest overnight aerial assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Jan. 20, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, adding Kyiv would be informing allies including the U.S. about the development. The overnight strike targeted substations serving nuclear power plants, and triggered widespread outages of electricity, water, and heat
"Last month, 35,000 were killed; all these losses are verified on video. If we reach 50,000, we will see what happens to the enemy," Fedorov said.
"Russia plans to have an army of 2 to 2.5 million personnel by 2030. So a European army, while each country keeps its own sovereign forces, must be able to respond. It should be no smaller than 3 million," Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists.
Among the fund’s investors are the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which committed 30 million euros, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which invested 50 million euros.
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Disconnecting Ukraine's nuclear power plants would take the crisis one step further — Ukrainians would be fully cut off from electricity and heating in subzero temperatures.
