Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia should 'take responsibility for the very fact of creating a threat to a nuclear plant'.
Harvesters of Astarta-Kyiv agri-industrial holding unloads wheat into a truck on 5 August 2022 in the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine.Three grain ships departed Ukraine on Friday under a landmark deal to avert widespread food shortages, as Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of striking Europe's largest nuclear site, causing a reactor stoppage.
It said staff of Russian nuclear operator Rosatom had hastily left the plant before the attacks, which damaged a power cable and forced one of the reactors to stop working. "Ukrainian armed units carried out three artillery strikes on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the city of Energodar," it said.
Kyiv said another three ships loaded with grain set sail from Ukraine on Friday, heading for Turkey and markets in Ireland and Britain. A further 13 are waiting to depart. The Russian foreign ministry said the list included figures known for "their malicious activity in the fight against the 'Russian world' and our traditional values".
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