The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, is on fire after being attacked by Russian forces, after confrontation with the Ukrainians, according to information released by the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Energodar, Dmytro Orlov.
Orlov also reported that there were casualties, but did not say the number of dead or injured. The mayor of Emergodar also posted on a social network that “gunshots can be heard in the city”.
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
Earlier, the adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Anton Herashchenko, made an online post in which he said that the Russians were stepping up efforts to take control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and that they had entered the city of Energodar, where workers at the plant live. plant, with tanks.
Russia has already captured the defunct Chernobyl plant, about 100 kilometers north of Ukraine’s capital Kiev.
* With information from Reuters and RTP agencies
