The International Atomic Energy Agency’s team set off to inspect the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant amid reports of shelling in the area.
Ukraine's state nuclear power company Energoatom said Thursday morning that the fifth reactor has been shut down at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant because of nearby shelling this morning.
"This is the second time in the last 10 days that the criminal actions of the rioters have led to the shutdown of the unit and power outage of the station," Energoatom noted. The United States has obtained a warrant to seize a $45 million Boeing 737 aircraft owned by Russian energy firm PJSC Lukoil, the U.S. Justice Department said.
The IAEA team is due to begin an inspection of the plant this morning following rising concerns over the safety and stability of the facility, Europe's largest nuclear power plant, amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. Russian news agency Interfax reported that its forces had fired on a group of Ukrainian troops which had landed in the Energodar region on Thursday morning.that,"there was a landing of Ukrainian troops, they are currently immobilized, lying in a summer cottage. Our aviation is working on them. Scouts have figured out their location, at the moment they are being hit by fire. I think that everything will be finished in the near future, and we will win.
"The opponent is focusing efforts on establishing full control over the territory of the Donetsk region, as well as keeping the captured areas of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Nikolaiv regions," the general staff of Ukraine's armed forcesBlack smoke rises at the front line in Mykolaiv Oblast on August 30, 2022. Ukraine has begun a major counteroffensive to retake Kherson city and the southern region of the same name.
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