Downstream of the course of the Dnieper, where the great river widens to form a kind of wide basin, before descending towards the city of Kherson and the Black Sea, the Soviet Union had built a very large nuclear power plant (6000 MW ).
It was a question of supplying electricity not only to the large neighboring city of Zaporijjia (40 km to the north-west, 450,000 inhabitants), but also to the whole of southern Ukraine.
The city is still controlled by the Ukrainians but the power station, located on the right bank of the Dnieper, was taken by the Russians at the start of their invasion.
To the misfortune of all of Europe, it has become a stake in this fierce fratricidal war between Orthodox Slavs.
A month ago, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense had announced, in a British daily, the vast counter-offensive of an
"army of one million men"
, intended to drive out the Russian occupier from the south of the 'Ukraine.
Irrepressible taste for communication, attempt at diversion, awareness of j
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