Twelve Ukrainians, including three children, were injured on Saturday in a Russian shelling in the city of Voznesensk, located not far from a nuclear power plant in the Mykolaiv region in the south of the country, according to a new report by the Ukrainian general. the prosecutor’s office.
“According to preliminary information, twelve people, including three children, were injured. Two children are in serious condition,” the prosecution said in Telegram messages.
Earlier in the day, the regional governor Vitaly Kim reported, on the same network, nine injured, including four children between the ages of 3 and 17 and who, according to him, were “all in serious condition.”
Attacks about twenty kilometers from a nuclear power plant
Voznesensk is about twenty kilometers in a straight line from the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Privdennooukraïnsk, the second most powerful in Ukraine, which has a total of four nuclear power plants, including those in Zaporijjia, which is the object of bombing.
The attack hit a residential building and several houses in Voznesensk, where some 30,000 people live, the state emergency service said on Facebook, posting images of a destroyed building.
The Mykolaiv region, which regularly suffers from violent Russian bombardment, is close to the Kherson region, occupied almost entirely by Russian troops since Moscow launched an attack on Ukraine in late February.
“The terrorist country called Russia hit a residential building, the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriï Yermak, denounced on Telegram. Our task is to ensure that not only the current generation of Russians are held accountable, but also their children and grandchildren. pay for everything.”
Towards an inspection of the Zaporizhia power plant?
Europe also has its eyes on Ukraine’s Zaporijjia power plant, the continent’s largest, and fears a major disaster. The plant, occupied since March by Russian troops, is the object of bombing, of which both Kyiv and Moscow are accused.
On Friday night, the French and Russian presidents noted “the importance of sending a mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency to the nuclear power plant as soon as possible, which will be able to assess the situation there,” according to the Kremlin.
Source: BFM TV
