The fire is out at the Ukrainian nuclear plant attacked by Russian forces early Friday local time:
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — No radiation was released from a Russian attack at Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the facility, U.N. and Ukrainian officials said Friday, as Russian forces pressed their campaign to cripple the country despite global condemnation.
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said Friday the building hit by a Russian “projectile” at the Zaporizhzhia plant was “not part of the reactor” but instead a training center at the plant.
Nuclear officials from Sweden to China said no radiation spikes had been reported, as did Grossi. Ukrainian officials have said Russian troops took control of the overall site, but the plant’s staff were continuing to ensure its operations. Grossi said the Ukrainians were in control of the reactor.
Nonetheless, Russia controls the kill switch to 20 percent of Ukraine’s electricity supply. The Zaporizhzhia plant on the Dnieper river is Europe’s largest and lies about 340 miles southeast of Kyiv.
After dislpacing more than one million people from their homes in Ukraine, and after attacking a nuclear plant, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin insists he has “no ill intentions towards its neighbours.”
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