Europe's largest nuclear power plant has a 'lucky' escape after shelling; Russian attacks intensify as weather deteriorates - CNBC

Ukraine says it volition analyse video footage circulated connected Russian societal media which Moscow alleged shows that Ukrainian forces killed Russian troops who whitethorn person been trying to surrender, aft 1 of the men seemingly refused to laic down his limb and opened fire, AP reported.

"Of people Ukrainian authorities volition analyse this video," Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's lawman premier curate overseeing the country's propulsion to articulation the European Union, said connected the sidelines of a information forum successful Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Stefanishyna, speaking precocious Saturday, said "it is precise unlikely" that the short, edited snippets amusement what Moscow claims.

Russian authorities announced the opening Friday of a transgression probe based connected the snippets posted connected Russian Telegram channels and relayed connected different societal media. They contiguous a muddled and incomplete picture.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed the footage shows an "execution" and said Russia wants an planetary investigation.

- The Associated Press

The Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant, which came nether dense shelling implicit the weekend, had a fortunate escape, according to the caput of the U.N.'s atomic vigor agency.

"Once again, we were fortunate that a perchance superior atomic incidental did not happen. Next time, we whitethorn not beryllium truthful lucky. We indispensable bash everything successful our powerfulness to marque definite determination is nary adjacent time," the International Atomic Energy Agency's manager wide Rafael Mariano Grossi said successful a statement Sunday.

The IAEA said repeated shelling astatine the Zaporizhzhya works connected Saturday evening and Sunday greeting damaged buildings, systems and equipment, with immoderate of the explosions occurring adjacent the reactors and damaging parts of the plant, including a radioactive discarded and retention gathering and cooling pond sprinkler systems.

Grossi reiterated his telephone for urgent measures to support the works and forestall a atomic mishap during the existent struggle successful Ukraine. He added that agreeing and implementing a atomic information and information extortion portion astir the atomic powerfulness works indispensable hap now.  

"Even though determination was nary nonstop interaction connected cardinal atomic information and information systems astatine the plant, the shelling came dangerously adjacent to them. We are talking metres, not kilometres. Whoever is shelling astatine the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, is taking immense risks and gambling with galore people's lives," Grossi said.

Ukraine and Russia impeach each different of shelling the atomic powerfulness plant, Europe's largest of its kind, which has been occupied by Russian troops since adjacent the commencement of the war. The IAEA squad of experts program to measure the shelling interaction connected the tract connected Monday.

— Holly Ellyatt

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Ukraine is successful a bully presumption to support warring Russia's invading forces done winter.

"As we spell guardant into the winter, we've done a batch to effort to hole the Ukrainians to beryllium prepared for a combat successful the winter, and alteration them to proceed to support unit connected our adversaries passim the wintertime months," helium told a property league as helium prepared to conscionable his Indonesian counterpart, Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, Monday.

"I deliberation they'll beryllium successful overmuch amended information than their adversaries, due to the fact that of the things that we provide. And again, our absorption is to enactment them throughout. Their absorption is to marque definite that they're doing everything to instrumentality backmost each borderline of their sovereign territory," helium said.

He added that it's "hard to foretell however things volition evolve" oregon what benignant of timeline determination mightiness beryllium for the warfare ending, however.

Austin said Ukraine had enactment the subject assistance from its allies to bully usage successful the war, noting "we've seen Ukraine usage that assistance successful precise artful ways and they they've been precise palmy connected the battlefield ... they've taken backmost Kharkiv, and they've besides astir precocious taken backmost arsenic the important municipality of Kherson. And truthful we've seen a fig of successes connected the battlefield."

Ukraine's eastbound Donetsk portion has been the absorption of aggravated warring for weeks, if not months, but Britain's Ministry of Defense said it believes a cardinal country of vulnerability for Russian forces is Svatove, an administrative hub successful the neighboring Luhansk region.

"With Russia's south-western beforehand enactment present much readily defendable on the eastbound slope of the Dnipro River, the Svatove assemblage is apt present a much susceptible operational flank of the Russian force," the ministry said connected Twitter Monday.

"As a important colonisation centre wrong Luhansk Oblast [province], Russian leaders volition highly apt spot retaining power of Svatove arsenic a governmental priority."

"However, commanders are apt struggling with the subject realities of maintaining a credible defence, portion besides attempting to assets violative operations further southbound successful Donetsk," it added. "As connected different parts of the front, Russian forces proceed to prioritise constructing antiaircraft positions, astir surely partially manned by poorly trained mobilised reservists."

The ministry noted that some Russia's antiaircraft and violative capableness continues to beryllium hampered by these terrible shortages of skilled unit and munitions.

The ministry said that successful the past week, "intense artillery exchanges" person continued successful the country of Svatove successful Luhansk.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said fierce battles are inactive ongoing, with the astir aggravated being successful the Donetsk region, but that crushed attacks person declined arsenic wintertime sets in.

"The fiercest battles, arsenic before, are successful the Donetsk region. Although determination are less attacks contiguous owed to the deterioration of the weather, the fig of Russian shelling occasions remains, unfortunately, highly high," Zelenskyy said successful his nightly code Sunday.

In Luhansk, the portion adjacent to Donetsk, Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces are advancing "little by little," but added determination person been astir 400 instances of shelling successful the eastbound portion connected Sunday alone. The president said forces successful the confederate portion of Ukraine are "holding the line," though the concern astir de-occupied Kherson remains tense, with Russians shelling the metropolis past night.

Ukraine's damaged vigor networks stay a monolithic occupation for the government, with Zelenskyy noting that the "restoration of networks and method proviso capabilities, demining of powerfulness transmission lines, repairs - everything goes connected circular the clock."

He said vigor workers had managed to alleviate the concern successful immoderate regions "where determination were a batch of existent problems yesterday." Nonetheless, "stabilization shutdowns" (scheduled vigor shutdowns) person taken spot successful 15 regions and successful Kyiv.

— Holly Ellyatt