The war in Ukraine has entered its ninth day, with Ukrainian forces continuing to mount staunch resistance to the Russian offensive, which has ramped up its attacks against civilian infrastructure in key cities, while overnight hostilities at a nuclear power plant sparked a fire that was later extinguished with no radiation leak. British intelligence said the southeastern port city of Mariupol remains in Ukrainian control but is surrounded by Russian forces and its civilian infrastructure was being subjected to intense strikes. Russian forces shelled Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine in the early hours of Friday, sparking a fire at a training building that was extinguished overnight, UK intelligence and Ukrainian authorities said. Russia’s defense ministry called the attack at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant a “monstrous provocation” by Ukrainian forces, claiming that a Russian patrol came under attack from heavy small arms fire that came from the building …