大象传媒

Following overnight shelling Russia has seized Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant. Vitaly Shevchenko is Russia editor for 大象传媒 Monitoring, and explains the implications. We get reaction to the seizure from Ukraine's finance minister, Serhiy Marchenko, who also calls for tougher Western sanctions to be imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Also in the programme, with many European countries still heavily dependant on Russian energy supplies, we find out what it would take for the continent to find alternative sources from Simone Tagliapietra, who is an energy expert at the Brussels research group Bruegel. We hear from a Russian businessman who has fled to Israel, amid widespread rumours that there may be a mandatory military call-up for men of eligible age. Plus, we explore Russia's crackdown on independent media freedom, where a new law has been passed making it a criminal offence to spread "false information" about the armed forces. Vera Krichevskaya was a co-founder of Dohzd, which until it was shut down earlier this week was the only independent news channel in Russia, and gives us her perspective on the latest developments.

Today's edition is presented by Mike Johnson, and produced by Nisha Patel and Russell Newlove.

(Picture: Part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Picture credit: Press service of Energoatom.)