The Ukrainian nuclear power operator accused the Russian military of placing missile launchers at the site of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine to open fire on Dnipro and Nikopol, where deadly attacks were reported, especially at night and in the early morning. (16).
The Ukrainian nuclear power operator accused the Russian military of placing missile launchers at the site of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine to open fire on Dnipro and Nikopol, where deadly attacks were reported, especially at night and in the early morning. (16).
“Russian invaders have installed missile-firing systems on the territory of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant,” Energoatom head Petro Kotin told Telegram after an interview with Ukrainian television channel United News.
“The situation (at the facility) is extremely tense and the pressure is increasing day by day. The invaders are taking their weapons there, including the missile systems they have already attacked from the other side,” to the Dniepro, “and they are entering the area. Nikopol”, 80 km southwest of Zaporizhia, said.
The largest power station in Europe and one of the largest in the world fell into the hands of the Russians in early March, shortly after the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
The governor of the Dnipro region, Valentyn Reznichenko, on Saturday condemned “a deluge of fire in the morning” with the firing of “Grad missiles in residential areas” on the territory of Nikopol. According to him, 12 buildings, a school and a university were damaged.
In Nikopol, he announced, “rescuers found two people dead in the ruins.”
Tense situation but under control
On Friday night, the Ukrainian Air Force said that Russian Kh-101 missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea towards Dnipro around 10 pm, four of which were destroyed.
The southern region command center said early Saturday that the situation was “tense but under control”.
Referring to Russia’s actions in the Kherson and Odessa regions, the command posted on Facebook, “The enemy continues to carry out attacks on previously occupied territory, but does not succeed on land, intensifying missiles and air strikes.”
Further north, near Kharkiv, the country’s second city, the municipality of Chuguiv was hit by Russian missiles late Friday, killing three people, regional governor Oleg Sinegoubov said.
He said the victims were “two men aged 60 and 68 and a woman aged 70”.
Other attacks
For the Sumi region, about 200 km to the northwest, the Ukrainian military command reported that it opened mortar fire and artillery fire day and night, with a total of one dead and seven injured.
On Friday night, Kramatorsk, the main city in the Donbass basin in the Donetsk region, still under Ukrainian control, was also hit by several bombs.
According to a police officer, the attack on the central square called Praça da Paz left a crater and the windows of the surrounding buildings were shattered, but there were no casualties as it occurred after the curfew, according to a police officer.
Earlier, at least three attacks took place south of Kramatorsk, near the airport, where AFP reporters saw a large cloud of smoke.
The Russian Ministry of Defense accused the Ukrainian forces of bombing Sloviansk under the pretext of “inciting anti-Russian sentiments among the civilian population” under the pretext of Russian attacks.
source: Noticias
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