On the 9th day of the war in Ukraine, Russia bombed the largest nuclear power plant in Europe overnight from Thursday to Friday. The shots caused a fire in this power plant in Zaporijjia, in central Ukraine. But the safety of the plant is “guarantee“, assures the director of the site. And Ukrainian emergency services announced shortly before 6 a.m. that the fire was “off“.
“The fire was liquidated at 4:20 a.m. (French time)“, said the Ukrainian Emergency Service on its Facebook account. The flames did not reach the sensitive areas, they spread to an administrative building and a laboratory. Russian soldiers temporarily prevented firefighters from accessing the site but the Ukrainian firefighters were finally able to enter the plant and extinguish this disturbing fire.
Moscow resorts to nuclear ‘terror’ according to Ukrainian President
Moscow resorts to the “nuclear terror“, immediately denounced the Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky. He accuses the Russians of wanting “repeat“Chernobyl. The worst nuclear disaster in history, in 1986, is on everyone’s mind. Shooting at a nuclear power plant has never happened, says Volodymyr Zelensky, who once again calls on Europe to intervene to stop the Russian army.
Boris Johnson calls for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council
But Thursday night Vladimir Putin was more inflexible than ever on Russian televisionstating that his invasion is taking place”according to plan“. The Elysée had very alarmist words: “The worse is yet to come“, considering that the objective of the Russian president is to invade all of Ukraine. This Friday morning, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is calling for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.