Russian missiles fired from Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
The Russian army has deployed missile launchers on the site of the Zaporijjia nuclear power plant (south), under Russian control since the beginning of March, thanks to which it is pounding the Nikopol region in particular, the boss of Energoatom said on Friday. the Ukrainian operator.
“The Russian occupiers have installed missile firing systems on the territory of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and are striking the Nikipol district from there,” Petro Kotin, chairman of Energoatom, said on Telegram after an interview. televised on the Ukrainian channel United News.
“The situation (at the plant) is extremely tense and the tension is increasing day by day,” 80 km southwest of Zaporizhia, he said.
According to him, up to 500 Russian soldiers are still on the site of the plant.
New Russian strikes in the East
Kramatorsk, a city in Donbass still under the control of Ukraine, suffered several bombardments on Friday evening when Vinnytsia, much further from the front, continued to count its dead after a deadly Russian strike the day before.
The strike on Kramatorsk’s central square, called Peace Square, left a two-meter crater and shattered the windows of surrounding buildings but did not cause any casualties because it occurred after curfew, an official says of the anti-aircraft defense of the 81st Ukrainian brigade, on condition of anonymity.
Vinnytsia counts its dead
“The identification of all those guilty” of this attack “has already begun”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday evening, recalling the toll of 23 dead, but also four missing and more than 200 injured, including four in a critical state.
“Russian society, with so many murderers and executioners, will remain annihilated for generations, and this by its own fault”, he launched, affirming that almost all of Ukraine was under air alert Friday evening with strikes reported in Dnipro (east), Kremenchuk (southeast of Kyiv) and in the Kyiv region.
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