The US Embassy in Ukraine accused Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday of committing a war crime by ordering an attack on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant — going a step further than the Biden administration, which has steered clear of making such an accusation since Moscow’s invasion began last week.“It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant,” the Embassy said in a statement posted on Twitter. “Putin’s shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further. #TheHague #Zaporizhzhia #StandwithUkraine.” Hours earlier, Russian forces had shelled the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, leading to a fire at a training center in the complex. Reports of the blaze amid an ongoing firefight between the invaders and Ukrainian forces led Kyiv Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to warn on Twitter: “If it [the plant] blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl!”
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