The latest developments in Russia’s war on Ukraine. All times EDT.
12:50 p.m.: Russia's defense ministry said Saturday that its forces had launched strikes on Ukrainian positions in several parts of Ukraine. It also accused Kyiv of carrying out shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Russian forces conducted their strikes in the Kherson, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, according to the ministry, adding that Ukrainian forces had carried out an unsuccessful offensive near Pravdyne in Kherson.
11:45 a.m.: Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is once again receiving electricity directly from the national grid after engineers repaired one of the four main external power lines that have all been damaged during the conflict, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported today.
But IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi cautioned that the situation at the plant remains precarious as long as Russia is shelling in the wider area.
10:30 a.m.: President Joe Biden has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine.
In an interview with CBS News to air September 18, Biden said, “Don’t. Don’t. Don’t. You will change the face of war unlike anything since World War II.”
Interviewer Scott Pelley asked what the U.S. response would be in such a case.
"You think I would tell you if I knew exactly what it would be?” Biden said. “Of course, I'm not gonna tell you. It'll be consequential.”
And he added, "They'll become more of a pariah in the world than they ever have been. And depending on the extent of what they do will determine what response would occur."