Ukraine’s UN Ambassador Scorns Notion That Kyiv Would Risk ‘Nuclear Catastrophe’ on its Own Soil

Diplomats from Ukraine and Russia exchanged accusations on Tuesday of military actions threatening a potential disaster at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, a facility in southern Ukraine that has been occupied by Russian troops for nearly six months. Kyiv’s envoy ridiculed the notion that his government would risk causing a nuclear catastrophe in its own territory by shelling the plant.