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Kiev, in night 40 rockets near Zaporizhzhia plant

Zelensky condemns Russian 'terror' after damage to nuclear plant

07 August, 09:33
(ANSA) - ZAPORIZHZHIA, 07 AGO - "Tonight about 60 'Grad' type rockets fell on 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 reported on Telegram by Yevhen Yevtushenko, the head of the military administration of the district of neighboring Nikopol.

"Houses, buildings, pipelines and power grids were damaged.

Two people were injured, one of whom, a 64-year-old man, is in the hospital with serious injuries," Yevtushenko added.

French agency press AFP says that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday accused Russia of using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "for terror" after the operator of the facility reported major damage at the site. Energoatom, operator of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the south of the country, said Saturday that parts of the facility had been "seriously damaged" by military strikes and one of its reactors was forced to shut down.

Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other for the attacks on the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe's largest atomic power complex.

(ANSA).

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