Nuclear power operator Ukraine, Energoatom, accused Russian troops of placing rocket launchers at nuclear power plants in Zaporozhye shoot in areas Nikopol D Dnieperwhich recorded the attacks this Saturday morning.
“The Russian occupiers have established launch systems missiles on the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP,” in southern Ukraine, the president of the aforementioned energy institution said on Telegram.
“Situation [en la planta] this is very much straining, and the tension is growing day by day. The invaders bring their equipment, including missile systems with which they attacked the other side of the “Dnieper” and the “territory of Nikopol” 80 km southwest of Zaporozhye, he said.
A little 500 Russian soldiers According to him, they are still on the territory of the plant and keep it under their control.
The largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine fell to Russian troops early Marchshortly after the invasion of Ukraine began, on February 24 the last.
explosions
Russian missiles hit today residential buildings in Nikopol, murder two people and damaged 12 buildings, a school and a university, the governor of the Dnipro region said. Valentin Reznichenko.
In the northeast, not far from the second largest city in Ukraine, Kharkivgovernor Oleg Sinegubov said that as a result of the Russian missile attack, overnight three persons in the city of Chuguev.
In connection with these facts, Ukraine and the international community continue to be shocked by the bombings cruise missiles that destroyed the center of Vinnitsa on Thursdayhundreds of miles to the west.
Authorities said the city’s death toll rose to 24 this Saturday after a woman succumbed to her injuries in hospital.
Ukraine claims to have three children among the dead.
“68 people continue to receive treatment, including four children. Four people are still missing,” the head of the Vinnitsa region said. Sergei Borzov.
The Russian military said that the shelling of Vinnitsa was directed against “Officer’s House” of the city where the meeting of the “command Ukrainian air force with representatives of foreign arms suppliers.
This information was questioned by a Pentagon spokesman. “I have no indication that military target nearby,” an official who wished to remain anonymous told reporters. “It was like an apartment building,” he added.
Fighting in Donbas
Currently, the main hostilities are concentrated in the south and in the Donbass mining and industrial basin in the east.
in the Donbass separatist forces They claimed that they were continuing their offensive and were in complete control of the city. severskattacked after the capture of Lisischansk, further east, at the beginning of the month.
representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konachenkovassured at a press conference that “the 115th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian army, which operated in Seversk, was destroyed”.
For his part, the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoiguvisited soldiers involved in the offensive, his ministry said today, without specifying the date of the move, the second since the start of the conflict. It is also not specified whether the visit took place in Ukraine or in Russia.
Shoigu “gave the necessary instructions to further strengthen” measures to “exclude the possibility of massive shelling by the Kyiv regime.” […] against civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in Donbass and other regions,” the ministry said in a statement. (AFP)
Source: RPP
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