Adi Roche: Russian shelling at nuclear power plant should be declared a war crime

Reuters verified video from the plant on Thursday which showed shelling and smoke rising near a five-storey building at the plant compound

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, which was shelled by Russian troops on Thursday. The facility provides more than a fifth of all electricity generated in Ukraine. Photo: AP

Humanitarian campaigner Adi Roche says Russian shelling at a nuclear power plant should be declared a war crime.

Ms Roche, who has been working for decades to support victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in northern Ukraine, spoke out today after Russian forces shelled and then seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility - the largest nuclear power plant in Europe - in the southeast of Ukraine.