Some Russian technology professionals, bankers, and journalists at state media outlets will not be called up to serve in Ukraine as part of Russia's mobilisation drive, the defence ministry said on Friday in a statement.
Russia-Ukraine war: Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that Ukrainian forces had attacked the plant twice over the past day, and that shells fell near buildings storing reactor fuel and radioactive waste.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday stated that it was "impossible" to cut Russia from the rest of the world and that Western sanctions would not reverse Moscow's decades of progress.