Live coverage of this new day of war in Ukraine
3:58 -
The essential equipment of the large Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which was hit and set ablaze by Russian artillery fire in southern Ukraine, was not compromised by the fire "and that plant personnel are taking" measures "to its securing: this is what the IAEA, the UN Atomic Energy Agency declared in a statement on Twitter.
3:36 -
Joe Biden spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to receive an update on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe.
"Biden joined Zelensky in urging Russia to stop military activities in the area and allow firefighters access to the site."
The White House reports.
3:33 -
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky took advantage of the episode of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhazhia, hit by Russian shooting and set on fire, to say that Russia is resorting to "nuclear terror", hitting a nuclear power plant for the first time in history , and that "wants to repeat the Chernobyl catastrophe".
"We want to alert the world to the fact that no country outside Russia has ever fired on nuclear power plants. It is the first time in our history, the first time in the history of humanity. This terrorist state is now resorting to nuclear terror", Zelensky said in a video released by the Ukrainian presidency.
3:15 -
Ukrainian authorities said they finally managed to get firefighters to the Zaporizhazhia nuclear power plant to put out the fire at one of the units hit by Russian artillery and that the plant's safety has now been "restored" .
"The director of the plant has assured that nuclear safety is now guaranteed," Oleksander Starukh, head of the military administration of the Zaporizhazhia region, wrote on Facebook.
The Ukrainian authorities have also denied to the IAEA that there have been increases in the level of radiation around the plant.
2:46 -
"Stop the use of force", is the new appeal of the director general of the UN International Nuclear Energy Agency (Aiea), Rafel Mariano Grossi, who spoke with the Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal and the Kiev nuclear authorities.
In an IAEA tweet reporting telephone conversations, Grossi warns of the grave danger if a reactor at the power plant near Zaporizhzhia, the largest in Europe, is hit.
2:35 -
Joe Biden is speaking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Nbc reports it citing some sources
2:19
- Firefighters are unable to reach the flames at the Zaporizhazhia nuclear power plant, the largest power plant in Europe, because they are under fire from the Russians, according to Andrei Tuz, the plant's spokesman, in a video posted on Telegram and quoted by the American media.
2:12
- Unit 1 of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was hit: this was stated by the spokesman of the plant, Andrei Tuz, quoted by various media, including the Bloomberg agency
1:43
- Russian forces are "hitting Zaporizhazhia, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. There are already flames. If it explodes, it would be 10 times worse than Chernobyl. Russia must immediately cease fire, allow firefighters" to intervene and "create a safety zone".
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweets it.
1:21
- Russian forces have started bombing Ukraine's and Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, near Enerhodar.
