A team of UN experts arrived at Ukraine\u0027s Zaporizhzhia atomic plant complex on Thursday to assess the risk of a radiation disaster.
Russia and Ukraine earlier accused each other of trying to sabotage the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency to the plant in southern central Ukraine, which is controlled by Russian forces but operated by Ukrainian staff.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
A Reuters reporter in the nearby Russian-controlled town of Enerhodar said a residential building was struck by shelling, forcing people to take cover in a basement. It was not possible to establish who had fired.
The IAEA inspectors, wearing body armor and traveling in white, armored land cruisers with UN markings on their sides, had been held at the first check point outside the city following the shelling reports.Russia accused Ukrainian forces of trying to seize the plant and also of shelling both the meeting point of the IAEA delegation and the nuclear plant itself.
A local Russian-installed official, Vladimir Rogov, later said “around 40” of the 60 Ukrainian troops had been killed. Russian troops also captured three Ukrainian servicemen during the assault on the plant, he added. “It is a very slow process, because we value people,” said Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, referring to the Ukrainian offensive.Advertisement 7Ukraine’s southern military command said it would not immediately name settlements in the south it had recaptured to avoid prompting Russian strikes on them.
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