24, noting that all border guards defending Zmiinyi island died. In an address, President Volodymyr said 137 soldiers were killed and 316 injured on Thursday Feb. Some of most intense fighting was outside of Kharkiv in the northeast, according to a senior U.S. Large parts of the Chernobyl Zone have been closed to the public for decades after a nuclear power reactor melted down there during the Soviet Union's reign in 1986, causing the release of large amounts of radiation in the air across Europe.
Pictures from the Russian Attacks on Ukraine Earlier, a Ukrainian official told the AP that Russian shelling hit a radioactive waste repository, with a reported increase in radiation levels. The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency called for “maximum restraint” to avoid actions that could put Ukraine’s nuclear facilities at risk. Russian forces seized control of the now-unused Chernobyl plant and its surrounding exclusion zone after a fierce battle. There have been dozens of reports of attacks in Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a military invasion into the country on Feb. See How Russia's Attacks on Ukraine Unfolded In a post to its Telegram channel, the ministry said Russian military personnel and tanks had entered through the Vilcha checkpoint, less than 100 miles north of the capital on a road which runs directly to the city. Russian troops were seen breaking through the Kyiv region, NBC News reports, advancing from the north past the state border between the capital city and Belarus, Ukraine's Ministry of the Interior said. Ukrainian authorities later described ground invasions in multiple regions, and border guards released video of a line of Russian military vehicles crossing into Ukraine’s government-held territory.
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