Renewed shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant comes after the United Nations urged Russia and Ukraine to carve out a safe zone there.
Russian renewed its shelling in the area of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, a local official said Wednesday, a day after the United Nations’ atomic watchdog agency pressed for the warring sides to carve out a safe zone there to protect against a possible catastrophe.
The allegation of new Russian shelling could not be independently verified, but fighting in the area has been. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that “something very, very catastrophic could take place” at Zaporizhzhia. There are fears that the fighting could trigger a catastrophe on the scale of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The Zaporizhzhia plant was built during the Soviet era and is one of the 10 biggest in the world.Hit by Western sanctions, Russia is purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for its war in Ukraine, the U.S. says.
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