Critical objects were not hit, according to a statement published on Saturday by the Russian military administration in the city of Enerhodar, where Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is located. The NATO ammunition was fired from the opposite bank of the Dnipro River and hit the site of the nuclear power plant – in the immediate vicinity of an administration building, it said. Four bullets were registered. “Critical objects of the plant are not damaged.”
The information could not be independently verified. Russia and Ukraine repeatedly accuse each other of shelling nuclear power plants and planning provocations. Occupation representative Vladimir Rogov accused Ukraine of “nuclear terrorism”. It will be checked whether there are injuries. The number of employees has already been reduced in view of the danger.
With six reactors and a net output of 5,700 megawatts, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was occupied by Russian troops in early March. It is of strategic importance for the country’s electricity supply. At the end of February, Russia invaded Ukraine. The leadership in Moscow and the occupation authorities in Zaporizhia reject international demands to return the nuclear power plant to Ukrainian control. There is a warning about the danger of a nuclear catastrophe. In 1986, the worst nuclear accident on European soil occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Dead and injured in Russian attacks
According to information from Kyiv, Russia also fired on civilians and non-military infrastructure in new rocket and artillery attacks in Ukraine on Saturday. In the Donetsk region, 7 civilians were killed and another 13 injured within 24 hours, the General Staff in Kyiv said on Saturday. “The area has no gas, partly no water and no electricity. The evacuation of the population continues.” In many places, the Russian attacks were successfully repelled, it said. The Ukrainian air force also attacked enemy positions. The information could not initially be verified by an independent party.
In the city of Oleksandrivka nine people were injured in a five-storey house by Russian shelling on Saturday, including children, said the governor of the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv Vitaly Kim. The General Staff also reported that the Mykolaiv region had been heavily shelled with rockets. The situation also remained difficult in the southern Ukrainian region of Cherson, which is almost entirely controlled by Russian troops.
800 dead in 24 hours
In its situation report, Russia confirmed that the attacks against Ukraine would continue. In the Kharkiv region, more than 100 fighters were “destroyed” in attacks against Ukrainian nationalist units, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in Moscow. Up to 20 US citizens were also killed. This information could not be verified by an independent party. Kyiv had founded an international legion for foreign soldiers.
Overall, Konashenkov spoke of more than 800 Ukrainian militants killed within 24 hours in various regions, including Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts. Accordingly, bases, military technology, fuel and ammunition stores were again destroyed. Moscow also claimed that Russian soldiers deployed in the Zaporizhia region at the end of July were taken to a hospital with symptoms of poisoning. Accordingly, they are said to have been poisoned with a chemical substance.
In the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, meanwhile, people on the boulevard Khreshchatyk in the center on Saturday could see captured Russian tanks and military technology as well as other war trophies, as the Internet portal Ukrajinska Pravda showed.
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