A Ukrainian power plant is currently on fire with emergency services warning an explosion could be catastrophic
The largest power plant in Europe is engulfed in flames following a Russian attack.
President Zelensky urges a new message warning that Russian artillery fire at the Zaporizhzhia power plant risks a nuclear radiation catastrophe that threatens the entire continent.
A government official told The Associated Press elevated levels of radiation are being detected near the site of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which provides about 25 per cent of Ukraine’s power generation.
“You know the word Chernobyl,”
he says
Plant spokesman Andriy Tuz told Ukrainian television it is urgent to stop the fighting to put out the flames.Enerhodar is a city on the Dnieper River that accounts for one-quarter of the country’s power generation.
When the firefighters first arrived on the scene they were attacked but reports say the fire brigade now has access to the fire.
If the planted did explode – it would have been ten times larger than Chernobyl.
There are reports that the shelling has stopped.
Savannah Pocock contributed to this report
