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Shelling at Zaporizhzhia plant and a week of regional fallout
Summary
Reports from 10 and 11 August 2022 covered strikes on a nuclear plant and a Dnipropetrovsk town, plus diplomatic moves by neighbours.
What did the war look like on 12 August 2022? Reports from the preceding two days pointed to danger at a nuclear site, civilian deaths in central Ukraine and shifting positions among states beyond the front line.
On 11 August, at least ten shells hit the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, in the part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast under Russian occupation. Russia and Ukraine each blamed the other for the attack. The shelling damaged an office building and the plant's fire station.
A day earlier, on 10 August, a Russian missile strike in Nikopol Raion, in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killed at least 13 civilians and injured 11 others.
Warnings and withdrawals abroad
The war also shaped decisions elsewhere. On 10 August, Uzbekistan's embassy in Russia warned its citizens not to join Russian forces fighting in Ukraine. It said those who did so would face criminal liability for mercenaryism on returning to Uzbekistan.
On 11 August, Estonia and Latvia formally withdrew from the Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries group. The move came amid tensions with China over its human rights record and its support of Russia's war on Ukraine.
Taken together, the reports show a conflict that on those dates reached a nuclear facility and a civilian area in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, while governments in the region drew lines of their own over involvement in the war.
