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Ukraine says it is targeting Russians shooting at, or from nuclear plant

Published 08/13/2022, 11:26 AM
Updated 08/13/2022, 07:15 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine is targeting Russian soldiers who shoot at an occupied nuclear plant in the south of the country or use it as a base to shoot from, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday.

Ukraine and Russia have traded accusations over multiple recent incidents of shelling at the Zaporizhzhia facility, Europe's largest nuclear power plant. Russian troops captured the station early in the war.

"Every Russian soldier who either shoots at the plant, or shoots using the plant as cover, must understand that he becomes a special target for our intelligence agents, for our special services, for our army," Zelenskiy said in an evening address.

Zelenskiy, who did not give any details, repeated accusations that Russia was using the plant as nuclear blackmail.

The G7 group of nations have called on Moscow to withdraw its forces from the power station.

Ukraine's defence intelligence agency earlier warned of fresh Russian "provocations" around the plant while the exiled mayor of the town where the plant is located said it had come under fresh Russian shelling.

But local Russian-installed official Vladimir Rogov wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian forces were shelling the plant.

Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak accused Russia of "hitting the part of the nuclear power plant where the energy that powers the south of Ukraine is generated."

"The goal is to disconnect us from the (plant) and blame the Ukrainian army for this," Podolyak wrote on Twitter (NYSE:TWTR).

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

The defence intelligence agency said Russian troops had parking a Pion self-propelled howitzer outside the nearby town and put a Ukrainian flag on it.

The agency also said that Thursday's strikes on the territory of the plant, which Ukraine says damaged water-pumping infrastructure and a fire station, had been conducted from the Russian-controlled village of Vodiane, about seven kilometres (4.35 miles) east of the plant.

Latest comments

Hope the wind are blowing the right way over russia if it explode
Gerrat Andrewyou ****up your mouth
fake news. let's move on......
just ****up the darn thing
This war is nothing but a dragged out distraction and a convenient scapegoat for everything 'bad'
Cant wait for putin to die and russia to implode on itself
Nice. 5000 lose nukes... Better pray they don't 'implode on themselves'.
Putin got that small ***energy. Unbelievable how many people have to suffer because of his insecurities.
To all Russian you are not invited stay at home and look at putins propaganda and his military if there are more of it go home and stay
well lets see, russia has never done a false flag before, oh wait thats what they ALWAYS do.
Sorry ***you are misinformed again russian are cowardly dug in behind the nuclear plant to fire missiles across the river to hit cities and k..ill as many civilians as possible. The ukrainians are more responsible and do not fire back because they wont risc hitting the plant…
Hahaha, come on guys. Let's wrap this up, huh? We've got a lot of work to do, Russians, Ukrainians, and all of us together! Blessings, and hopes.
Russia go home.
LMAO Russian s c  um think anyone is going to fall for a russian howitzer in Russian controlled territory because they put a Ukrainian flag on it? I prey Russia hits this plant and gives Us a reason to go in and smash their ground forces in Ukraine into oblivion. We should have done it months ago anyway
putin is nothing he even can’t fight little fat rat his judo stink’s
Russian madness around nuke plant.
They are brain washed pea brains
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