Shellfire on Zaporozhye occupied by nuclear Russia power Factory in Ukraine fueled fears of A major disaster as both sides kept blaming each other while Russian forces targeted towns on remote side of The river is the largest atomic plant in Europe.
Despite the danger, officials from the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency are still waiting for Permit to visit the factory on Southern Front Line of the war.
Standing next to a volcano crater in a school was very much reduced To the ruins, the governor of Zaporizhia regionOleksandr Starukh, for Ukrainian Television that people They have been informed how to apply iodine in issue of radiation leak.
he was talking in The city of Zaporizhzhia, two hours drive From the factory located along the vast Kakhovka Reservoir on Dnipro River.
Russian forces captured the factory in In early March soon After the invasion of Ukraine, while Ukrainian employees continue to operate it. In recent weeks both countries I blame each other for Bombing near the factory.
The Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom said that Russian forces again Reasons bombed of the complex in The last 24 hours. “Harm currently Verified,” Energoatom wrote in a permit on cable.
Moscow defense Ministry on Saturday accused the Ukrainian forces of Factory complex bombing three times in 24 hours. He Said in A statement about the launch of 17 shells. with Four hit the ceiling of a building Storage ‘168 groups of Nuclear fuel for Westinghouse Corporation.
It added that 10 shells exploded near a dry storage facility for Nuclear fuel exhausted and three near a building Which houses a new nuclear fuel depot. She added that the radiological situation in the plant remained normal.
Reuters was also unable to verify the side report.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier on Friday that the situation in Zaporizhzhya remained “precarious” after two years. of that it six The reactors were reconnected to the grid after they were bombed caused To separate the nuclear plant for The first time.
The head of The International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said on Thursday that the IAEA was “very, very close” to being able to send officials to inspect the plant.
Energoatom statement on On Saturday, it said its factory employees have come under “increasing pressure” in the future of Possible visit “Silence up Testimonies of crimes of The occupiers at the station and using it’s shaped like military Base.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called this month for military equipment And the personnel To be withdrawn from the factory to ensure Not a target.
On the opposite shore of the Zaporizhzhia factory, cities of It was Nikopol and the Marhanets hit by shells on The mayor of Nikopol, Levin Yevtushenko, said Saturday afternoon and evening on cable.
Fighting rages on
To the south, Russian forces were trying to withstand a Ukrainian counterattack centered around Kherson first big city To be taken after invasion It was launched six months ago.
Ukrainian strategy have focused on Destruction of four bridges that Russian forces must keep to supply Kherson, at the southern end of Dnipro.
Vladimir Leontyev, Russian appointee head of Kherson regionby the Russian Tass Agency news Agency that Ukrainian forces again The Kakhovsky Bridge was bombed over Hydroelectric dam.
Southern Command of Ukraine on On Sunday, it was announced that the artillery and missile attacks had been successful in The area, which said it killed 35 Russians and destroyed Howitzer, self-propelled artillery gun Nine armored vehicles.
“also destroyed They were two ammunition depots and one field supply point.
Donbass front
On Ukraine’s eastern front, defenders continued to thwart Russian attempts to break through the strategy city of Bakmot to extend control over Donbass region.
Having captured Severodonetsk and Lesichansk weeks ago, Russian forces concentrated on Bakhmut. the city that was home to 80,000 people Before the war, bombed again Saturday, as they were close Soldar and Zaitsevo, according to Ukrainian military Report.
She said Ukraine had halted progress near two other major towns, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
Ukrainian military also She said her forces are holding out in Coal producing city of Avdiivka managed to hold off a Russian attack though enemy Artillery and air raids.
Russians defense Ministry said in daily briefing she had destroyed Large ammunition depot in Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine region which contained the United States-made HIMARS Missile Systems and Missiles for M777 howitzer.
Russian air force shot down MiG-29 in Donetsk region in Donbass Ministry said, the destroyed six Missile and artillery weapons depots in Donetsk, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.
Reuters was unable to verify those accounts.
President Vladimir Putin fired invasion of Russia’s neighbor on February 24, saying “special Operation “was necessary for the demilitarization of the country and the removal of perceived security threats to Russia.
Ukraine and the West dismissed this as a baseless excuse for Imperial war of Invade.
