Luckily, the plant’s reactors are undamaged.
Ukraine's state nuclear energy company, Energoatom, has also published two images of the crater caused by the explosion at the site. In an image, a man standing by the crater try helping viewers understand the scale of the blast.were functioning normally, and there were no casualties in the attack.
The Mykolaiv region has been under attack from the Russian forces in recent weeks, but Russia has not responded to Ukraine's accusation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said on messaging app, Telegram, "The invaders wanted to shoot again, but they forgot what a nuclear power plant is. Russia endangers the whole world. We have to stop it before it's too late,"Ukraine's other nuclear energy power plant is located 155 miles east of Mykolaiv, at Zaporizhzhia.
The Russian strikes are also being looked at as retaliation for losing ground in Ukraine. Over the past couple of weeks, Ukrainian forces have surged eastward, forcing Russians to flee from their positions and be on the defensive, aLast week, Russian forces hit power plants behind Ukrainian lines in the Kharkiv region, sending certain areas into blackouts. The Russian ministry of Defense has confirmed the withdrawal of troops from certain regions but only as part of redeployment in the east.
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