Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has been rocked by shelling, which UN officials have condemned as such attacks risk triggering a major nuclear disaster. Its head International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, IAEA) Rafael Grossi reported yesterday, Sunday, the “deliberate and targeted” pyre against its nuclear power plant Zaporizhia in Ukraine, of the largest in Europe, asking “stop this madness”.
THE Russia and Ukraine re-accused each other yesterday that they bombed the area where the nuclear power plant, in the southern part of Ukraine, which has been occupied by the Russian army. “Explosions occurred on the site of this large nuclear power plant, which is completely unacceptable,” Grossi said in an interview with French television station BFMTV.
“Whoever is behind this, must be stopped immediately. As I have said many times in the past: you are playing with fire!”, he underlined. “People who do this know what they’re getting into. It’s absolutely intentional, targeted.” For months the Moscow and Kyiv they accuse each other of bombing the area around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which is close to the front line.
Kherson and Donetsk
In his daily speech, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday, Sunday evening, that almost 400 Russian attacks were recorded in eastern Ukraine during the day.
“The fiercest fighting, as before, took place in the Donetsk region. Although the attacks were fewer today, as the weather worsens, the number of Russian bombings unfortunately remains extremely high,” the Ukrainian president complained.
“In the Luhansk region we advance slowly fighting. So far, almost 400 artillery strikes have been recorded in the east since the beginning of the day,” Zelenskiy added. Meanwhile in southern Ukraine, at Kherson, where Russian forces recently withdrew, residents who spent eight months under occupation are now facing new Russian bombardments.
The city of Kherson remains without electricity, running water and heating.
Source: News Beast
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