Parts of Ukraine’s main power plant, near the city of Zaporizhzhya in the south of the country, caught fire last night after rocket attacks. The fire brigade reported that they had managed to extinguish the fire at around 6.30pm.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, no ‘essential facilities’ of the nuclear power plant were damaged. There have been no casualties.
But the risks are high, as Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on the Dnieper River is under attack from Russian tanks, Ukrainian President Zelensky said. The nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe with six reactors. “Only one exploded in Chernobyl. You remember how that ended,” Zelensky warned last night, referring to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine in 1986 that shocked the world. After the explosion of a reactor block at the plant, radioactive materials spread over large parts of Europe for several days.
The attack on the nuclear power plant fits into the current strategy of the Russian army, which according to military analysts amounts to destroying everything related to water, gas and light. Ukraine must be black. In this way it is hoped to break the resistance of the Ukrainians and to force a change of power.
This goes hand in hand with offensives in the south and east and the encirclement of cities such as Mariupol in the south. This city is of strategic importance as a link between the previously annexed Donbas and Crimea. In addition, Mariupol is said to house a far-right militia, the Azov Brigade. According to the Russian president, this is proof of fascists and Nazis in Ukraine with which he partly justifies this major offensive.
‘No progress’
In a bulletin published on Telegram at around midnight, Ukraine’s military staff said the Russian armed forces made “no significant military progress” on Thursday. Despite the continued bombing. According to the observations of the Ukrainian army, Russian units concentrated on securing supplies for their own troops.
Russian units are said to have attempted to take the Hostomel suburb near Kiev last night. The Ukrainian Air Force Command reported on Facebook that three Russian SU-30cm, SU-34 and SU25 aircraft were allegedly shot down, as well as a number of helicopters. This information cannot be verified. Russian President Vladimir Putin does not seem sensitive to calls for an end to attacks on cities. In a televised speech, he said Russian military operations in Ukraine are proceeding according to plan and praised the soldiers fighting for Russia as “heroes.” He promised generous financial compensation for families of soldiers killed during the invasion.
Putin also seized the opportunity to charge a string of charges against Ukrainian troops who are “holding thousands of foreign citizens hostage and using them as human shields.” The Ukrainian army is also said to have tortured Russian prisoners of war. The so-called humanitarian corridors, through which Ukrainian citizens can flee, would be blocked by Ukrainians themselves, Putin said. “We are at war with neo-Nazis. I will never give up my belief that Russians and Ukrainians are one people.” The delegations of Ukraine and Russia have agreed a third round of consultations for next Monday. Yesterday’s second round in Belarus also failed to deliver the results Ukraine had hoped for, a Ukrainian negotiator said.
Agreements have been made about the so-called humanitarian corridors, through which civilians can flee, according to the envoy.
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