Battle for nuclear power plant: Ukraine destroys Russian camp in Zaporizhia. The region has high strategic value.
Ukraine is building four new nuclear reactors this year. Its six reactors have now been shut down. If another nuclear disaster were to occur here, it would be the second in Ukraine's history. The world-famous reactor accident in Chernobyl in 1986 also occurred on what is now Ukraine. At that time the territory still belonged to the Soviet Union. However, damage to the nuclear power. plant in Z Vaporizhzhia would not be as devastating as the effects of the Chernobyl. disaster.