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Ukrainian intelligence: Russia preparing new shelling of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, danger to other nuclear facilities remains high.

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Russia plans to manufacture a humanitarian crisis by targeting Ukraine's entire energy system, said Yuriy Yusov, spokesperson for Ukraine's defense intelligence agency. "Putin wants to plunge Ukraine and all of Europe into a dark, cold winter," Yusov said. The warning comes after repeated Russian shelling of the nuclear power plant territory and the targeting of Kharkiv's electricity infrastructure on Sept. 11.

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