The Ukrainians living on a nuclear frontline: ‘this is inhumanity’ – video 

Across the river from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant lies the city of Nikopol, which is being pounded regularly with Russian rocket fire. Each night residents go to sleep not knowing if they will wake up. World leaders have expressed increasing alarm at Europe’s largest nuclear plant becoming a war zone. Any radiation leak could be catastrophic for Ukraine and the wider continent. Kyiv says Russian forces are using the plant as a shield, hiding military equipment there knowing that they cannot be targeted. Moscow claims Ukraine is shelling the plant and its surroundings, putting the world in jeopardy. The Guardian’s Luke Harding and Christopher Cherry visit Nikopol to speak with residents the morning after an attack 

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