The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, March 3. Click here for updates from March 2. Russian Forces Approach Huge Nuclear Plant Ukrainian officials say a column of Russian forces is headed toward Europe’s largest nuclear plant, which accounts for about one-quarter of Ukraine’s power generation. Both the Ukrainian state atomic energy company and the mayor of Enerhodar, Dmytro Orlov, said Russian troops were approaching the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Officials said loud shots were heard in the city late Thursday. “Many young men in athletic clothes and armed with Kalashnikov have come into the city. They are breaking down door[s] and trying to get into the apartments of local residents,” the statement from Energoatom said. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has joined Ukraine’s president in calling on the West to close the skies over Ukraine’s nuclear plants as fighting intensified around the major energy hub on the left bank of the …