The regional governor in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, Oleksandr Starukh, announced early today that Russian bombings in the city of the same name they hit houses, causing casualties and fires.
“Due to the enemy’s attacks, fires broke out in the city,” Mr Starukh said via the Telegram platform. “There are probably casualties. Rescue crews are already pulling people out of the wreckage,” the official added, according to Reuters and the Athens News Agency.
According to Putin’s decree, a state-owned enterprise named NPP Zaporizhzhya (“Zaparosskaya Nuclear Power Station”) should be established in which the plant’s ownership status will be secured.
Earlier, the head of its state nuclear power company Ukrainian has declared, as Reuters reports from Kyiv, that it takes responsibility for the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and has called on the plant’s workers not to sign any documents with its Russian occupiers
Energoatom chief Petro Kotin made the remarks in a video speech posted on the Telegram messaging app, despite Russia saying it plans to monitor the plant’s operations.
The videotaped speech followed the brief arrest by Russian forces of the Ukrainian head of the station, where Ukrainian staff still work.
“All further decisions regarding the operation of the plant will be made directly at the headquarters of Emnergoatom,” Kotin said, adding that “we will continue to work on the basis of the legislation of Ukraine, within the framework of the Ukrainian energy system, within the framework of Energoatom ».
Source: News Beast
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