"Tonight about 60 'Grad' rockets hit the coastal settlements between Nikopol and Zaporizhzhia, 40 of them on the village of Marhanets", on the north bank of the Dnipro River, just 10 km from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on the south bank.
This was announced on Telegram by Yevhen Yevtushenko, the head of the military administration of the district of nearby Nikopol.
"Homes, buildings, pipelines and power grids were damaged. Two people were injured, one of whom, a 64-year-old man, is in hospital with serious injuries," added Yevtushenko.
The air alarm went off during the night in Kharkiv and Nikopol, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, due to new attacks by the Russians in Ukraine.
Ukrinform reports it.
Kharkiv residents said they heard at least three powerful explosions.
reports Channel 24. According to Yevhen Yevtushenko, head of administration in the Nikopol district, the invaders also carried out bombings in the direction of the city of Marhanets and the urban settlement of Chervonohryhorivka.
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "for terror" after the investigation of serious damage to the structure.
Kiev and Moscow blamed each other for the attacks on the Zaporizhzhia power plant, the largest nuclear complex in Europe.
Zelensky, in his Saturday evening speech, once again accused Moscow of terrorism stating that "Russian terrorists have become the first in the world to use the central for terrorism".
One of the reactors of the
Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia
, under the control of Russian forces, was shut down, the bombing on Friday caused a
serious risk
for the safe operation of the plant ", the Ukrainian energy company said yesterday. nuclear power plant, following the attacks that Kiev and Moscow accuse each other of having launched. "Following the attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the emergency protection system was activated on one of the three functioning reactors, which shut down "announced Energoatom in a message on Telegram.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan said he offered Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold a meeting with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Turkey
.
Erdogan met with Putin in Sochi, Russia on Friday to strengthen economic and energy cooperation between the two countries.
It was the second meeting between the two presidents since the start of the war, in July they met in Tehran.