The Zaporizhzhia plant has been under Russian control since March.
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On Saturday, Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of attacking the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine, which has come under constant shelling over the past week.
Zaporizhzhia is the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and Europe.
The factory has been under Russian control since March, and Ukraine has accused Moscow of keeping hundreds of soldiers and storing weapons there.
“Limit your presence on the streets of Energodar! We have received information about new provocations by the occupiers (Russia),” Ukraine’s nuclear agency Energoatom said in sharing a message. on Telegram from a local head in the city of Energodar, where the factory is located.
The city remains loyal to Kyiv.
“According to residents, there was a new shelling in the direction of the nuclear plant … the time from the start to the arrival of the shelling was 3-5 seconds,” the notice said.
But pro-Moscow officials in occupied areas of the Zaporizhzhia region blamed Ukrainian forces for the shelling.
“Energodar and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant were again set on fire by Zelensky (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) fighters,” said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the government set up by Moscow.
The missiles fell “in areas located on the banks of the Dnipro river and in the factory”, he said, without reporting any casualties or damage.
Areas occupied by Russia and those controlled by Ukraine are divided by the Dnipro River.
Kyiv and Moscow have raised accusations of several shelling of the plant this month, raising fears of a nuclear disaster and leading to an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council in Thursday.
Ukraine says the first attacks on August 5 damaged an electrical cable and forced one of the reactors to shut down.
Then strikes on Thursday damaged a pumping station and radiation sensors.
Ukraine, backed by its Western allies, has called for the establishment of a demilitarized zone around the plant and the withdrawal of Russian forces.
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