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UKRAINE NUCLEAR PLANT: RUSSIA IN CONTROL AFTER SHELLING

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Watch: Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant appears to be on fire following shelling.

Russia has taken control of Europe's largest nuclear power station in Ukraine
after it was hit by shelling.

A fire started at the Zaporizhzhia plant after it was shelled by Russian troops,
Ukrainian officials say.

The UN's nuclear watchdog said radiation levels and the safety of reactors were
not affected.

World leaders have accused Russia of endangering the safety of an entire
continent, and Ukraine's president accused Russia of "nuclear terror".

US President Joe Biden urged Moscow to stop its military activities around the
site, while Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the "horrific attacks"
from Russia "must cease immediately".

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the "reckless" attack could "directly
threaten the safety of all of Europe". All three leaders spoke to Ukraine's
President Volodymyr Zelensky by phone.



Mr Zelensky, meanwhile, said the attack could have caused destruction equal to
six Chernobyls, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986.

"If there is an explosion, it is the end of everything. The end of Europe," he
said.

Russia's defence ministry blamed the attack on Ukrainian saboteurs, calling it a
"monstrous provocation" without providing evidence.



A video feed from the nuclear plant showed blasts lighting up the night sky and
sending up plumes of smoke.

A building within the plant site was set on fire after being hit by a projectile
but was not part of the reactors, according to the head of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi.

He said safety systems at the plant were not affected by the fire and that there
has been no release of radioactive material.



He described the situation at Zaporizhzhia as "normal abnormality", meaning
operations are normal but nothing else is.

Earlier, the IAEA said it was in "full 24/7 response mode" due to the "serious
situation" at the power station.




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One resident who lives nearby said he saw the Russian military attacking the
site. "It is just terrorism... It is worrying not just for our region, but for
Ukraine and for the world," Kirill Dovzhik told the BBC.

Ukrainian emergency services said they were initially blocked from getting to
the scene of the blaze, prompting President Biden to publicly call on Russia to
allow firefighters into the site.

Boris Johnson said he would seek an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council
on Friday over the attack.




Nuclear experts watching the events at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant say this
is a very risky situation.



"For the first time this morning, I'm frightened," Sheffield University nuclear
materials expert Professor Claire Corkhill tells me.

It appears that only one of six reactors at the plant is now operating.

Corkhill says the reactors are being taken "offline" which means "they're
shutting down the nuclear reaction and putting them into a safe and stable
state".

She adds this might have been Russia's intention.

"If you want to target their power supply, you attack a building close to the
power plant and force operators to shut it down," she says.

Corkhill adds that a "worst-case scenario" would be that the plant's electricity
supply were damaged as "we could be looking at a scenario similar to what
happened at Fukushima in 2011, where a loss of power led to a loss of cooling,
which caused a meltdown of three of its nuclear reactors".



The plant, located around 550km (342 miles) south-east of the capital Kyiv,
generates around 20% of all electricity in Ukraine. It lies on the river
Dnieper, north-east of the city of Kherson which is said to have been occupied
by Russian forces.

The Russian military has also seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the
site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

News of the latest incident at Zaporizhzhia caused share prices in Asia to fall
sharply.

In other developments:

 * In the port city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine, residents are without power
   and water supplies because of relentless Russian shelling
 * In the north, the cities of Chernihiv and Kharkiv have again come under fire,
   while there are reports that the city of Sumy has been surrounded by Russian
   troops
 * The BBC's Russian Service has been partially blocked in Russia after the
   country's parliament passed a law making it an offence to spread "false
   information" about the war in Ukraine. A BBC spokesperson said: "Access to
   accurate, independent information is a fundamental human right which should
   not be denied to the people of Russia."

More than one million people have fled Ukraine since the invasion began last
week.

Despite punishing international sanctions, Russia's President Vladimir Putin
said his offensive was going "strictly according to schedule, according to
plan".

He has put his nuclear forces on high alert because of "aggressive statements"
by the West.

Western ministers will hold crisis talks in Brussels on Friday as they seek to
show their support for Ukraine.

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called it "one of the biggest days of diplomacy"
with allies prepared to "tighten the vice around Putin's war machine" by
targeting the Russian economy with more sanctions.



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