{"id":473264,"date":"2022-03-05T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T05:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=473264"},"modified":"2022-03-05T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T05:39:13","slug":"us-embassy-in-ukraine-calls-nuclear-power-plant-attack-by-russians-a-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-embassy-in-ukraine-calls-nuclear-power-plant-attack-by-russians-a-war-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"US Embassy in Ukraine calls nuclear power plant attack by Russians a \u2018war crime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine said that attacking a nuclear power plant is a war crime on Friday after Russia seized a Ukrainian nuclear facility that is the biggest in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The statement on the embassy&#8217;s Twitter account went further than any U.S. characterization of Russia&#8217;s actions in Ukraine since it launched its invasion on Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. Putin&#8217;s shelling of Europe&#8217;s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further,&#8221; U.S. Embassy Kyiv said in its post.<\/p>\n<p>Russian invasion forces seized Europe&#8217;s biggest nuclear power plant on Friday in heavy fighting in southeastern Ukraine, triggering global alarm, but a huge blaze in a training building has been extinguished and officials said the facility was now safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine said that attacking a nuclear power plant is a war crime on Friday after Russia seized a Ukrainian nuclear facility that is the biggest in Europe. The statement on the embassy&#8217;s Twitter account went further than any U.S. characterization of Russia&#8217;s actions in Ukraine since it launched its invasion on Feb. 24. &#8220;It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. Putin&#8217;s shelling of Europe&#8217;s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further,&#8221; U.S. Embassy Kyiv said in its post. Russian invasion forces seized Europe&#8217;s biggest nuclear power plant on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}