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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warns Moscow that its forces would be "annihilated" by the West's military response if President Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons against Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warns that Belarus could start hosting Russian nuclear weapons after a "very dangerous" decision at a referendum to drop the country's non-nuclear status. SOUNDBITE
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warns Moscow not to use the alleged drone attack that it said targeted the Kremlin to escalate its war in Ukraine. "We call on Russia not to use this alleged attack as an excuse to continue the escalation of the war," Borrell tells journalists in Brussels as he attends an EU ministers meeting. SOUNDBITE
Images of smoke rising from buildings and shelling is heard in the background as Russian forces attack the frontline city of Severodonetsk, one of several besieged in the besieged east of Ukraine. IMAGES
Russia's "reckless" overnight attack on a nuclear power (plant, ed) in Ukraine endangered all of Europe, the US ambassador to the United Nations says. "Russia's attack last night put Europe's largest nuclear power plant at grave risk," Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells the Security Council during an emergency meeting. SOUNDBITE
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi says 'security systems of the six reactors at the plant were not affected' and that 'there has been no release of radioactive material' after Russian troops attacked Europe's largest nuclear power plant (the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant), setting part of the Ukrainian facility ablaze in an assault the country's leader branded "nuclear terror" and said could endanger the continent. SOUNDBITE