UNDER ATTACK This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows a bright flaring object landing in the grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine on Friday, March 4, 2022. Russian forces shelled Europe’s largest nuclear plant early Friday, sparking a fire as they pressed their attack on a crucial energy-producing Ukrainian city and gained ground in their bid to cut off the country from the sea. AP PHOTO
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KYIV, Ukraine: The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency says that it was a training center at a Ukrainian nuclear plant that was hit by a Russian “projectile.”
Earlier reports conflicted over what part of the plant was affected by fire that broke out after shelling. Nuclear plant spokesman Andriy Tuz told Ukrainian television overnight that shells fell directly on the facility, and set fire to reactor that is not operating and to an administrative training building.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi said Friday that the building hit was a training center and “not part of the reactor.”
He said that the Ukrainians are still in control of the reactor.
He added: “What we understand that this projectile is coming from the Russian forces. We do not have details of what kind of projectile it is.”
He said there has been no release of radiation and that the fire had been extinguished. He said two people on the site were injured in the fire.
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