A fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeast Ukraine on Friday after an attack by Russian forces, the plant's spokesperson said. READ MORE: [ Ссылка ]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy shared a video on his Facebook account of magnesium flares hitting the power plant in the city of Enerhodar in the early hours.
The plant's spokesperson, Andriy Tuz, said in a series of Telegram videos that there was "a real and present danger" and firefighters could not access the site to extinguish the fire.
The Zaporizhzhia plant is the largest in Europe, Tuz added.
Background radiation levels remain unchanged at the plant, the RIA news agency cited a plant spokesman as saying.
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