Russians give improbably story about missile that hit nuclear plant
A Russian envoy tried to convince UN-linked nuclear inspectors that a missile that landed near Ukraine's major power plant had rotated 180 degrees before landing, and therefore could not have come from Russian forces, reports say.
Video footage shows a man speaking to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors at Zaporizhzhia plant with remains of a shell in front of them.
According to a translation by The Telegraph, he said while gesturing to the missile: "It fled from here and this is the direction of Nikopol. It did a U-turn. In principle, it landed and spun around." Nikopol is a city in southern Ukraine.
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The Telegraph described the exchange about the missile caught on video as "an attempt to convince them it had not been fired from Russian-held territory."
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The plant has been hit several times. The Russians have been accused of trying to use it as a shield for their operations in Ukraine.
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