Russian attack on Ukraine nuclear power plant

 Europe's largest nuclear power plant was attacked Friday and taken over by Russian forces that invaded Ukraine, sparking Western horror at the threat of Moscow's war causing another Chernobyl and contaminating all of Europe.

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv called the attack a "war crime," tweeting that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's shelling of the plant "takes his reign of terror one step further."

It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. Putin's shelling of Europe's largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further. #TheHague #Zaporizhzhia #StandwithUkraine

 

— U.S. Embassy Kyiv (@USEmbassyKyiv) March 4, 2022

Impacts illuminated the night sky as the Zaporizhzhia thermal energy station, around 400 miles southeast of Kyiv, went under shell discharge.

 

Ukrainian firemen said they were kept from getting to the site at first before the assault was stopped and they had the option to splash a blast at a preparation office on the site. 

The six reactors at Zaporizhzhia, which can control sufficient energy for 4,000,000 homes, were evidently whole and global screens announced no spike in radiation.

However, the assault was banged in Western capitals as absolutely reckless.

 

"We endure a night that might have halted the story, the historical backdrop of Ukraine, the historical backdrop of Europe," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

 

A blast at Zaporizhzhia would have equaled "six Chernobyls," he said, alluding to the plant in Ukraine that was the site of the world's most terrible atomic catastrophe in 1986.

 

"Russian tank administrators knew what they were terminating at," Zelensky affirmed, adding: "The psychological oppressor state presently depended on atomic fear."

In any case, the assault was rammed in Western capitals as absolutely reckless.

 

"We endure a night that might have halted the story, the historical backdrop of Ukraine, the historical backdrop of Europe," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

 

A blast at Zaporizhzhia would have equaled "six Chernobyls," he said, alluding to the plant in Ukraine that was the site of the world's most terrible atomic catastrophe in 1986.

 

"Russian tank administrators knew what they were terminating at," Zelensky affirmed, adding: "The psychological oppressor state presently depended on atomic fear."