In a message posted to his Telegram account, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “Russia fires on nuclear power plant in Ukraine” and shared a video of what appeared to be an explosion over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the country’s southeast.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said if it blows up, “it will be 10 times larger than Chernobyl”.
Dmytro Orlov, mayor of Enerhodar, a city located close to the power plant, said Russian forces had shelled the plant.
“As a result of continuous enemy shelling of buildings and units of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is on fire,” Orlov said on his Telegram channel, citing what he called a threat to world security.
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A fire broke out in a training building outside the largest nuclear power plant in Europe during intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, Ukraine's state emergency service said on Friday, SİA reports quoting Reuters.
A spokesperson for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant told RIA that background levels of radiation had not changed. Radiation security had been secured, the plant's director told Ukraine 24 TV.
A video feed from the plant southeast of the capital Kyiv appeared to show smoke and flames coming from an unidentified building.
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