In a frantic Twitter statement, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba affirmed that Russian troops were firing “from all sides” at the plant, and that flames had “already broken out.”
Europe’s largest nuclear power station is on fire after Russian troops began to shell it early Friday, according to the mayor of the southern Ukrainian city where the plant is located.
“We demand that they stop the heavy weapons fire,” spokesperson Andriy Tuz said in the video, according to. “There is a real threat of nuclear danger in the biggest atomic energy station in Europe.” Ukrainian nuclear authorities told the International Atomic Energy Agency that no changes had been reported in radiation levels near the plant, which accounts for roughly one-quarter of all power generated in Ukraine.
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