Russian forces have seized Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which caught fire early Friday after being shelled by Moscow troops, Ukraine said. The plant, located in southeast Ukraine, is a key supplier of the country’s electricity.
Ukraine entered a second week of war against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invading forces with parts of the country’s largest nuclear plant on fire and its southern cities encircled by the Kremlin’s troops, as the humanitarian catastrophe wrought by Russia’s assault becomes increasingly apparent.
Later in the morning, Ukraine’s nuclear inspectorate said that Russian forces had captured the plant, which is a key supplier of the country’s electricity. A regional military leader saidwas “ensured as of now,” while local authorities said the fire was extinguished as of 6:20 a.m. local time. Washington and Kyiv said there had been no increase in radiation levels.
Ukrainian officials said the blaze broke out after Russian shelling, while President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of “nuclear terror.” The White House demanded that the Kremlin halt military activities near the nuclear power plant, located in Ukraine’s southeast. Russia and Ukraine said they had agreed to limited local cease-fires to facilitate “humanitarian corridors,” as several cities in Ukraine’s south warned that
. The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday that over 1.04 million people had fled Ukraine since Russia invaded, and that 249 civilians had been killed, though it warned the real scale of casualties was likely to be “considerably higher.”British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said early Friday that he would seek an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council “in the coming hours” to discuss the fire at the Zaporizhzhia plant.and is facing disaster within days, a local official said.
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