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Shells at Zaporizhzhia and a shifting regional map
Summary
A look back at a day of strikes on a nuclear plant, warnings to would-be fighters and diplomatic withdrawals.
What did a single day of the war reveal about its reach beyond the front line? On 11 August 2022, the answer ran from a nuclear power station in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast to diplomatic offices in the Baltic states.
Shelling at the nuclear plant
At least ten shells hit the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on 11 August 2022. Russia and Ukraine each blamed the other for the attack. The strikes damaged an office building and the plant's fire station. The plant lay in an area under Russian occupation.
Civilian toll in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
One day earlier, on 10 August 2022, a Russian missile strike in Nikopol Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killed at least 13 civilians and injured 11 others.
Crimea and the counteroffensive
On 9 August 2022, multiple explosions were reported at a Russian military air base near Novofedorivka in western Crimea. Crimean authorities said at least one person was killed and six others were injured. The incident was listed among events of the Ukrainian summer counteroffensive.
Pressure beyond the battlefield
The war also shaped decisions far from the fighting. On 10 August 2022, Uzbekistan's embassy in Russia warned its citizens not to join Russian forces in Ukraine, saying that anyone who did so would face criminal liability for mercenaryism on returning to Uzbekistan.
On 11 August 2022, 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 from 9 to 11 August 2022 show a war that touched critical infrastructure, civilian areas, occupied territory and the foreign policy of states well outside Ukraine.
