Russian military forces took control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, and the world narrowly escaped a full-blown nuclear catastrophe in the process, U.S ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Friday.
Thomas-Greenfield spoke at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council just hours after Russian forces bombed and then seized the Zaporizhzhia plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
The foreign ministers of the G-7 group of developed economies issued a new joint statement condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and pledged to impose more sanctions on Moscow and its ally Belarus unless the unprovoked assault was halted.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called upon the people of Europe to support his country, predicting the nation will repel Russian President Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion.