Europe's largest Nuclear power plant attacked by Russia

On Friday, Russian troops stormed Europe’s largest nuclear power station, setting part of the Ukrainian facility fire in an action that Ukraine’s president dubbed “nuclear terror” and warned may put the continent in danger.

Local authorities stated the fire was doused at sunrise, after hours of uncertainty throughout the night. They had previously stated that there was no immediate radiation increase and that “critical” equipment was protected.

However, it was unclear what the invading army intended to do next.

President Volodymr Zelensky met with foreign leaders, including US Vice President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who both urged for a cease-fire at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

Johnson accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of “reckless conduct” that “may now directly jeopardise the security of all of Europe,” according to Johnson.

According to a statement from his office, the British leader will request an emergency UN Security Council meeting in the coming hours.

Images from a live video from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant site earlier this week revealed explosions that lit up the night sky and sent plumes of smoke into the air.

In a video message, Zelensky criticized the strike, stating, “No country other than Russia has ever fired against nuclear power stations.”

This is the first time in our history that this has happened. In the annals of human history. “The terrorist state has now turned to nuclear terror,” he added, pleading for international assistance.

“It’s the end of the world if there’s an explosion.” Europe’s demise. Europe is being evacuated at this time. Only quick European intervention will be able to prevent Russian soldiers from entering the country.”

Despite the misgivings, Ukrainian authorities announced that the facility had been secured after many hours of uncertainty.

“The director of the plant stated that nuclear safety is now ensured,” claimed Oleksandr Starukh, the leader of the Zaporizhzhia region’s military administration, on Facebook.

“According to people in charge of the plant, the fire damaged a training building and a laboratory,” he continued.

The fire damaged a training building and a laboratory, according to people in charge of the plant,” he continued.

The IAEA also stated it had been assured by Ukraine’s regulator that “no change in radiation levels” had been reported at the plant.

“Ukraine informs IAEA that the fire at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant site has not impacted ‘critical’ equipment, and plant workers are taking mitigation measures,” the agency said in a tweet.

“The plant’s reactors are safeguarded by substantial containment buildings, and reactors are being safely shut down,” said US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in a tweet.

Give me planes'-

During the nine days of conflict, Russia has intensified strikes across the nation, with new allegations of civilian losses and terrible damage, particularly in southern districts near the first city to fall to Moscow’s troops.

Moscow agreed to a Ukrainian proposal for humanitarian corridors to allow scared inhabitants to evacuate in a second round of negotiations on Thursday, but there was no clear clarification on how they would work, and no sign of any progress toward a truce.

Direct negotiations with Putin, according to Zelensky, are “the only way to end this war.” He did, however, call on the West to increase military aid and “send me planes.”

Since Putin’s invasion, most of the international community has rallied with Ukraine, making Russia a global outcast in finance, diplomacy, sport, and entertainment.

Despite harsh international penalties, the offensive has proceeded, and Putin claimed on Thursday that his invasion is “strictly on track, according to plan.”

In televised remarks, he said Russia was pursuing “neo-Nazis,” adding that he “would never give up on (his) conviction that Russians and Ukrainians are one people.”

According to an assistant to French President Emmanuel Macron, who spoke with Putin on Thursday, “the worst is yet to come.”

While a large military column looks to have stuck north of Kyiv, Russian troops have already taken Kherson, a 290,000-person Black Sea city, after a three-day siege that left it without food and medication.

Russian troops are also putting pressure on Mariupol, a port city east of Kherson that is without water and electricity in the dead of winter.

They’re attempting to erect a blockade here, just as they did in Leningrad,” Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko said, referring to the Nazi siege of Russia’s second city, now known as Saint Petersburg.

Russian forces struck residential sites, including schools and a high-rise apartment complex, in the northern city of Chernihiv on Thursday, killing 33 people.

Residential neighbourhoods in the eastern city of Kharkiv were “pounded all night” by indiscriminate shelling, according to Ukrainian authorities, which UN investigators are probing as a possible war crime.

Many Ukrainians were digging in, with volunteers constructing sandbags and gathering bottles for Molotov cocktails in the industrial heart of Dnipro.

Others in Lviv organised food and supplies to ship to cities under siege, as well as home-made anti-tank barriers based on YouTube guides.

Authorities in Russia have enforced a media blackout on the fighting, and two liberal media organisations have announced that they will cease operations, signalling yet another death knell for independent reporting in the nation.

In Russia, Facebook and a number of other media websites were temporarily unavailable on Friday as authorities tighten down on anyone who criticise the war.

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