Utility claims that Russia has rocket launcher at nuclear power plant in Ukraine

According to Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear power company, Russia has deployed multiple Grad rocket launchers at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station.

The company claimed that the placement of the weapons “violated all the conditions for the organization of nuclear and radiation safety,” as they were “near power unit No. 6 right next to the territory of the station’s dry storage of spent nuclear fuel, where they had previously built some “protective structures” in a secret regime.”

Energoatom stated that “the bombardment of the opposite bank of the Dnieper, in particular the Nikopol and Marganets” is the “most likely” scenario Russia is prepared for with the launchers at the power plant. employing storage for spent nuclear fuel and power plants as a “cover.”

Energoatom claimed that from the “very beginning” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia has been used for “military purposes.”

Energoatom added, “And once more, we urge for the establishment of a security zone within and surrounding the station for its full demilitarization and deoccupation.”

Four police officers who were killed by Russian mines in the Kherson region on Wednesday will get honors posthumously, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Thursday in his daily address.

The officers came across a mine trap while returning from one of the missions and removing guns and ammunition from the cache of the occupants, many of which were left in the Kherson region, the president stated. And this is the kind of Russian terrorism that will require years to combat.

On Thursday, Russian and Ukrainian soldiers exchanged attacks in Ukraine’s crucial eastern and southern areas as they battled for control of the region that Moscow has sought to seize during their 10-month war.

The frontline village of Avdiivka was reportedly shelled by Russian tanks early on Thursday morning, according to a Ukrainian official, as fighting continued throughout the whole line of demarcation in the Donetsk area.

Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, claimed that Russia has increased its military presence in the area around Lysychansk in an effort to seize the settlement of Bilohorivka. He also spoke of an escalating Russian air offensive.

Around Bilohorivka, “they are bringing in more and more reserves,” Haidai said to Ukrainian media. “There are assaults every day.”

An assault claimed the lives of nine civilians in the town of Bakhmut and other areas of the Donetsk region that borders Luhansk, according to a Ukrainian official. In response, Ukrainian forces launched a volley of rockets.

According to a statement from Ukraine’s military general staff, men of fighting age have been called to mobilize in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian city of Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia region, a supply route into Crimea.

The Ukrainian general staff reported that since Wednesday, Russia has launched dozens of attacks from many rocket launchers, in addition to 16 airstrikes and seven missile attacks.

Since the invasion on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made contradictory remarks about the war’s objectives, but it is clearly obvious that one of his goals includes some border expansion.

Putin acknowledged that the conflict will be a “long process” but claimed that by annexing Ukrainian territory, Russia had already grown geographically. He was making referring to the hotly contested statements he made in September that four Ukrainian provinces had been annexed by Russia.

Putin referred to the outcome as “important,” despite the fact that not all of the Ukrainian territory it claims is under its control. He referred to the Sea of Azov as its “internal sea,” which is currently bordered by Russia and areas of southern Ukraine that are under Russian authority, including the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.

According to Zelenskyy, his soldiers would eventually force Russia from all of the land they have taken, including Crimea.