But, the Reuters news service said Moscow blamed Ukrainian saboteurs and called the fire a 'monstrous provocation.' Ukrainian officials blamed the blaze on Russian shelling. Then Russian forces seized the plant, according to the Kremlin and officials in Ukraine.īoth sides later said the plant was operating normally. The fire in a training building at Europe's largest nuclear power plant has been extinguished, Ukrainian emergency services said early Friday. Photos: Inside the Russian invasion of Ukraine 60 photos The United Nations Human Rights Council said more than a million people have fled Ukraine in the week since the invasion began and a million more are displaced internally. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said. 'The use of weapons with wide-area effects in populated urban areas risks being inherently indiscriminate,' U.N. In the northern city of Chernihiv, missiles slammed into residential neighborhoods, killing at least 33 people, according to emergency services. defense official said more than 90% of the combat power Russia built up along Ukraine's borders ahead of its invasion is now committed inside Ukraine.Īlso on Thursday, Russia claimed it had taken its first major city, Kherson, and that the country's forces also surrounded the vital port city of Mariupol, as heavy strikes continued to target Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv as well as an area just outside the capital, Kyiv.

For the first time ever in our history, in the history of human kind, the terrorist country has reverted to nuclear terror.' Surveillance camera footage shows a flare landing at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant during shelling in Enerhodar, Ukraine, early on March 4, 2022, in this screengrab from a video obtained from social mediaĭuring earlier televised comments, Russian President Vladimir Putin said operations in Ukraine were going according to plan despite international criticism over the targeting of highly populated residential areas.

'No country has ever shot at nuclear blocks except for Russia,' Zelensky said. In a video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of using 'nuclear terror.' Russia's defense ministry said the plant was operating normally. No increases in radiation levels were detected and plant personnel were monitoring its operations, Ukrainian officials said. At first they said Russian forces were keeping firefighters from reaching the flames but later said the Russians had relented.Īccording to the Reuters news service, the Kremlin blamed Ukrainian saboteurs and called the fire a 'monstrous provocation.' Ukrainian authorities said Russian shelling sparked the blaze.

Both sides agreed Russian forces control the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, but both blamed the other for the fire. He war in Ukraine entered a new phase Friday when Russian troops seized Europe's largest nuclear power plant after a fire in a nearby training building was extinguished. Please follow the latest Russia-Ukraine developments here. EDITOR'S NOTE: This Live Blog is no longer being updated.

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