Hundreds of Ukrainian workers and citizens blocked the access road to a major nuclear power plant located in Enerhodar, in northwestern Ukraine.
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The civilians thus hope to keep the Russian soldiers at a distance and slow their progress, even if Russia claims for its part to have taken control of the zone including the nuclear power plant, reports CNN.
Footage shows a large crowd carrying Ukrainian flags and blocking the road on Wednesday morning.
Garbage trucks were also used to close the path.
“We conveyed the position of our city and its residents that the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia (ZNPP) is under reliable protection, that its workers and residents of Enerhodar are under Ukrainian flags,” the mayor of Enerhodar, Dmytro Orlov.
“All municipal services are operating in emergency mode. No one is going to abandon the city. People are determined,” he added.
Russia has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that its military forces have taken control of the territory around the nuclear power plant, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on Tuesday.