Ukraine: Fighting continues and concern grows over Zaporozhye nuclear power plant

Today, the fighting maintains its intensity on various fronts. Ukrainealbeit without progress for the parties on the ground, while concerns are growing over the fate of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, controlled from March Russian troops passed.

Military actions in the south of Ukraine today renewed the alarm in connection with the situation at the largest Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Europe, the facilities of which were decommissioned. target of attacks for which Russians and Ukrainians blame each other.

“Another shelling of the Zaporozhye power plant by Russian troops from anti-aircraft missile systems serious risk to safe operation station,” the Ukrainian company Energoatom, which operates the station, said in a statement.

He stated that on this Saturday, as a result of the bombing, “the gallery was damaged along which personnel pass to the power units.”

“Ukrainian team of the plant continues to work and does everything possible to ensure nuclear safety and radiological, as well as to eliminate the consequences of the accident,” Energoatom stressed.

Pro-Russians Say Situation at NPP Is ‘Normal’

The military-civilian administration, established by Russia on the territory controlled by its troops in the Zapoporye region, today assured that the nuclear power plant works fine.

“Shells fell next to the administrative building. But information about the violation of the rules of operation (of the plant) is notor are they true”, – said a member of the administration Vladimir Rogovquoted by the official Russian news agency TASS.

He added that the level of radiation at the plant is equal to the level of radiation in the environment.

“If we talk about the situation at the Zaporozhye NPP, then it is under control. Everything is normal. There were no shells today,” Rogov stressed.

promotion of hostilities

According to the report, Russian forces have focused their efforts on air strikes, artillery and cruise missiles against Ukrainian positions in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ministry of Defense of Russia.

The Russian representative of this portfolio is General Igor Konashenkovreported that his country’s navy destroyed the American HIMARS missile depot and Western anti-aircraft weapons in the Odessa region in southern Ukraine.

The attack was carried out by Kalibr cruise missiles, the Russian military said in a press release, without specifying where the missiles were launched from.

He added that over the past 24 hours, six command posts of the Ukrainian forces were hit by air and artillery fire and the same number of other ammunition depots were destroyed at various points in the south and east of Ukraine.

Konashenkov invested over 130 people died in the Ukrainian army. in the last twenty four hours.

On the other hand, the Ukrainian military command reported that Russia uses aircraft and artillery in almost all sectors of the front and that in some places unsuccessfully tried to move forward.

Press Secretary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, colonel Alexander Shtapunindicated that Russia continues to move air defense systems to Belarus.

“The threat of enemy missile and air strikes from the territory of this country remains,” the military said.

The Ukrainian authorities accuse the regime of the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, to be “an accomplice of Russian aggression”, since from Belarus the Russian army launched its failed attack on Kyiv at the beginning of its “special forces operation”. (EFE)

The legislator said that economic interests are behind the project, approved at the insistence of the plenary session of the parliament. On the other hand, MP Alex Paredes of the ruling Magisterial Bloc justified his group’s support for the project’s persistence despite the government’s compliance with the law.