Ukraine’s nuclear company Energoatom said in a statement that Russian forces occupying the plant have placed several Grad multiple rocket launchers near one of its six nuclear reactors.

A fire broke out at an airport in Russia’s southern Kursk region after a drone hit the facility, and an industrial plant 50 miles from the Ukrainian border was also targeted by drones, which missed a fuel depot at the site.

A survey, commissioned by the Kremlin, found that 55% of respondents backed peace talks with Ukraine while 25% wanted the war to go on. The report didn’t mention the margin of error.

The Russian Embassy in Washington insisted that Russian oil ‘will continue to be in demand’ and criticized the price limit as “’eshaping the basic principles of the functioning of free markets.’

Since Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, his military forces have been accused of abuses ranging from killings in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha to deadly attacks on civilian facilities.

NATO allies have made plans to boost provisions of blankets, generators and other basic necessities, and the U.S. will use $53 million to buy electrical parts for the country’s electrical grid.

The power situation was so dire that Ukraine’s energy trader – in normal times an exporter – tested importing electricity from neighboring Romania.