Shelling around Ukraine nuclear plant ‘extremely disturbing’

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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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