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The power station in Zaporizhia has served as an impromptu military base for Russian forces—but <a href="https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/11/20/an-alarming-tug-o-war-over-a-ukrainian-nuclear-plant?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&ut ...

Tensions are rising at Zaporizhia, which Russian forces are using as a military base. We ask what <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/08/19/what-is-at-stake-at-ukraines-zaporizhia-nuclear-plant?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=th ...  Show more

With the propaganda machine at fever pitch, not everyone in Russia agrees on—<a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/03/05/vladimir-putins-invasion-of-ukraine-is-wrecking-two-countries?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_conten ...

A counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces to try to drive Russian troops out of southern Ukraine has placed the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, directly in the path of the fighting.

As the world scrambles to prevent a catastrophe, the plant’s worker ...