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The attacks come ahead of Ukraine’s Independence Day on Wednesday commemorating freedom from Soviet rule, with Kyiv banning public celebrations citing a threat of more attacks. The U.S. embassy in Kyiv also warned in a statement of Russian plans to strike civilian and government infrastructure in the coming days. Near frontlines in the south of the country, Ukraine said Russia fired artillery and conducted air strikes in several towns in the Zaporizhzhia region, were Russian forces captured the nuclear power plant shortly after they invaded on Feb. 24. Artillery and rocket fire near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor complex, on the...