Ukraine’s Atomic Energy Agency has accused Russia of using Europe’s largest nuclear power plant to stockpile weapons and shell the surrounding regions of Nikopol and Dnipro, which were hit on Saturday.
Petro Kotin, president of Ukraine’s nuclear agency Energoatom, called the situation at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant “extremely tense,” with up to 500 Russian soldiers controlling the nuclear power plant, Agence France-Presse reports.
The plant in southeastern Ukraine has been under Russian control since the first weeks of the Moscow invasion, but is still managed by Ukrainian personnel.
Russian rockets hit residential buildings in the city of Nikopol on Saturday, killing two people, Dnipro regional governor Valentin Reznichenko said.