Ukraine-Russia war live: Killed security chief at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was ‘collaborator’, Kyiv says
Zelensky defends Vuhledar retreat and says it was done to save ‘citizens of Ukraine’
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An employee at a Russian-controlled nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been killed in a car bomb attack.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, said the employee, Andrei Korotkiy, had died after a bomb planted under his car went off near his house in the city of Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhia plant is located.
Korotkiy worked in the plant’s security department, the Committee said. A criminal case has been opened into his death.
Ukrainian military intelligence published a video of his car exploding and in a statement branded Korotkiy a “war criminal” and collaborator, accusing him of repressing Ukrainians and of handing Russia a list of the plant’s employees and then pointing out people with pro-Ukrainian views.
“The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine‘s Ministry of Defence reminds people that every war criminal will be fairly punished,” the Ukrainian agency said.
Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest with six reactors, soon after they entered Ukraine in February 2022. The plant is not currently operating.
The plant’s authorities condemned Ukrainian authorities for orchestrating the murder.
“This is a horrific, inhumane act,” said plant director Yuri Chernichuk, vowing punishment for the attackers.
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The town was a bastion of resistance for over two years since Vladimir Putin’s invasion in February 2022
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Ukraine’s military also says it struck Russian radar station with US-provided ballistic missiles
Zelensky visits Sumy region bordering Russia’s Kursk region
President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had visited the northern Sumy region, from where Ukraine launched a major incursion into the neighbouring Russian Kursk region in August.
“Today I started my trip to the Sumy region with a meeting with our soldiers who are fighting in the Kursk region, defending our border regions and the entire state,” he said on the Telegram messaging platform.
Court in Belarus sentences activists for attempted sabotage of Russian military plane
A court in Minsk sentenced a dozen individuals to prison terms of between two and 25 years for helping commit what Belarus has called an “act of terrorism” at a military airfield outside the capital last year.
A group of Belarusian anti-government activists said in February 2023 that they had blown up a sophisticated Russian military surveillance aircraft in a drone attack at the base.
Russia and Belarus dismissed the assertion as fake, with Belarusian state television publishing footage showing what it said was the undamaged Beriev A-50 surveillance craft.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, alleged at the time that Ukrainian security services and the U.S. Central Intelligence agency were behind the operation.
The main defendant, Ukrainian national Nikolai Shvets, was sentenced in absentia to 25 years in prison.
Former Nato chief says he regrets not providing Ukraine with support earlier
Former Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg has said he regrets the alliance did not provide military support to Ukraine earlier.
“If there’s anything I in a way regret and see much more clearly now is that we should have provided Ukraine with much more military support much earlier,” he told the Financial Times.
“I think we all have to admit, we should have given them more weapons pre-invasion. And we should have given them more advanced weapons, faster, after the invasion. I take my part of the responsibility.”
Mr Stoltenberg also said Nato had called Putin’s “bluff” after “crossing all those so-called red lines” the Russian President had put up.
Putin has constantly threatened Nato and Ukraine’s Western allies to not interfere with Russia’s invasion, often with nuclear threats.
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There is no prospect for negotiation “anytime soon” over the war in Ukraine, western officials have said.
They added that Ukraine was unlikely to reverse recent gains by Russia with “relative stability on the front line” expected.
Russia captured the tactically significant town of Vuhledar on Wednesday, as officials said Moscow would now “seek to exploit opportunities in villages and towns in its vicinity in the coming weeks”.
However, they added that Russia would not be able to “fundamentally capitalise on these gains”.
Western officials said: “We’re not going to suddenly see a breakthrough and a rapid advance of Russia westwards.
“It will just continue to be this slow grind.”
Pictured: Russian military strike in the village of Hirske, near the Russian border in Chernihiv region
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