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Ukraine, Russia trade blames over nuclear plant attack
AP – Ukraine and Russia accused each other Wednesday of planning to attack one of the world’s largest nuclear power plants, but neither side provided evidence to support their claims of an imminent threat to the facility in southeastern Ukraine that is taken by Russian troops.
Russia and Ukraine have regularly traded blame over shelling near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant that caused power outages. Over the last year, the U.N.’s atomic watchdog repeatedly expressed alarm over the possibility of a radiation catastrophe like the one at Chernobyl after a reactor exploded in 1986.
North Korea satellite had ‘no military utility’: S. Korea
REUTERS – South Korea’s military said on Wednesday it had retrieved the wreckage of a North Korean spy satellite that plunged into the sea in May after a botched launch and found it had no meaningful military use as a reconnaissance satellite.
The South’s military said it had on Wednesday ended salvage operations, which began immediately after the debris splashed down off South Korea’s west coast on May 31. Aircraft, the navy and deep-sea divers were involved in the effort.