Ukraine: – The struggle for nuclear power plants

Heavy fighting is taking place Thursday afternoon between Ukrainian and Russian forces near the town of Energodar located near the nuclear power plant.

It informs the city’s mayor, according to the Associated Press.

On Thursday, Reuters reported, Russian forces tried to break through a barrier around the nuclear power plant set up by local residents and local Ukrainian military forces.

According to the AP news agency, the nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe. The plant consists of six of the country’s fifteen nuclear reactors and, according to the mayor of Energodar, provides a quarter of Ukraine’s energy supply.

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The situation is alarming after the entry of Russian troops into Energodar, according to Vadim Denisenko, who is also an adviser to the Ministry of the Interior. The city is located near the nuclear power plant and is home to many of the nuclear plant’s employees, according to Reuters.

On Wednesday, the United Nations warned of attacks in the area near the facility.

– The commander said that it is of paramount importance that the armed conflicts and movements on the ground around the Zaporizhia plant, and the rest of the Ukrainian nuclear power plants, do not in any way disturb or endanger the people working in and around them. Rafael Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Statement from the United Nations on Wednesday

The power plant and city are located in southern Ukraine on the banks of the Dnipro River, about 220 kilometers northeast of Kherson, which Russia occupied on Wednesday, according to the NTB.

Ukrainian authorities still control the country’s two most important nuclear facilities – including the one where Russian forces are now approaching, according to Reuters.

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Approaching the second largest city

On Thursday afternoon, Reuters reported that Russian forces are present outside Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, which has a population of 1.5 million.

Kharkiv is close to the border with Russia, and there have been attempts to take control of the city since the start of the war on February 24. According to the authorities, the attacks target residential areas, military targets and public buildings.

Large parts of the city were devastated after the intense attacks, Reuters wrote.

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Several cities are under attack

There have also been intense attacks in the port of Mariupol recently. Reuters wrote on Thursday that the city was surrounded by heavy attacks, without electricity or water.

In the city of Chernihiv, two schools and apartment buildings were hit by Russian air strikes on Thursday afternoon.

At 4.30 pm, Sky News and Reuters reported that the death toll, according to the Ukrainian emergency services, had risen to 22.

Dagbladet has been in contact with people residing in Chernihiv, who have stated that children have stayed home from school since the outbreak of the war.

And the mayor of Kherson, on Wednesday evening, announced that Russian forces had occupied the city.

But a spokesman for the US authorities said Thursday that fighting continues between Ukrainian and Russian forces in the city, and that it was too early to say that Kherson was in Russian hands. It’s Reuters reports.

A military convoy of more than 60 meters in length is also on its way to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. According to Reuters, the column is 25 km outside the city on Thursday.

Brigadier Kirillo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, told the magazine that Ukrainian fighter jets attacked a Russian convoy outside Kyiv. Military Times.