Within days of invading, Russian troops seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, digging trenches, looting and disturbing materials at the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident. The specter of nuclear power has long haunted Ukraine and it has loomed large throughout Russia’s invasion. This includes using nuclear weapons, Putin said last week, reiterating a threat he has uttered numerous times before but world leaders are treating seriously. The votes were widely viewed as an obvious pretext for annexation and have been widely denounced as an illegitimate “ sham.” Putin made it clear that Moscow now considers the regions-not all of which are completely under its control-non-negotiable parts of Russia that will be defended by all means necessary. Putin formally annexed four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine on Friday following a string of referendums held this week.
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