Ukraine-Russia war latest: Nuclear watchdog says smoke seen after shelling near Zaporizhzhia plant
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog says shelling has been heard at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, and black smoke seen rising from three nearby locations.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it was informed of multiple artillery shells strikes on an area outside the plant’s perimeter not far from from its off-site diesel fuel storage facility.
“While there were no reports of casualties or equipment damage, the incident once again underlined the constant dangers to nuclear safety and security,” the UN nuclear watchdog’s chief Rafael Grossi said.
The incident at Europe’s largest nuclear facility came after Donald Trump said that it “takes two to tango” as the prospect of talks between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to end the war in Ukraine appeared to have reached a dead end.
“It takes two to tango. Those are two people, Zelensky and Putin, that hate each other, and it looks like I have to sit in the room with them, because they can’t sit in a room together. There’s great hatred there,” he said.
