Ukraine’s Zelenskyy Warns UN That Russians Could Cause Nuclear Disaster

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, addressing the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 25, warned of a potential nuclear disaster brought by Russian forces targeting Ukraine’s nuclear infrastructure. Speaking to the international body more than two years after Russian forces marched en masse into his country, Zelenskyy recounted a report he received in the early days of the conflict, stating Russian tanks had fired at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. “This was one of the most horrifying moments of the war, when no one could know how Russian strikes on the nuclear facility would end,” Zelenskyy said. The Ukrainian leader compared the risk posed by the Russian forces at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to the deadly 1986 Chornobyl nuclear power plant meltdown....