Shelling around Ukraine nuclear plant ‘extremely disturbing’

Russian and Ukrainian officials are trading blame for the intense shelling yesterday around the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine. More than a dozen explosions rocked the area. Olena Pareniuk, a nuclear power expert at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, tells The World’s host Marco Werman what’s at stake.

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