Ukraine Nuclear Plant Shelled, UN Warns: ‘You’re Playing With Fire’

Ukraine Nuclear Plant Shelled, UN Warns: ‘You’re Playing With Fire’
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant outside Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on Oct. 14, 2022. Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
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LONDON—Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control, was rocked by shelling on Sunday, drawing condemnation from the U.N. nuclear watchdog which said such attacks risked a major disaster.

More than a dozen blasts shook Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant on Saturday evening and Sunday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.