Ukraine's Nuclear Power Plants Are Under Attack

Russian troops now control two of Ukraine's nuclear power plants, and if they continue, experts say the dangers could be felt beyond the country.

The U.S. embassy in Kyiv, which has evacuated to Poland, is calling Russia's attack on a nuclear power plant a war crime, Saying on Twitter "Putin's shelling of Europe's largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further."

A lawyer with experience at the International Criminal Court told Newsy that court would agree. 

"The International Criminal Court will consider an attack on a nuclear power plant to be a war crime," said Göran Sluiter, criminal law professor at the University Of Amsterdam. "Such an attack will have devastating consequences for civilians in the area and also for the environment."