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The result was a mass power outage in the adjacent area after fires damaged the plant’s last functioning transmission line, Ukraine’s nuclear power company said Thursday. As reported by the Washington Post.

Europe faced the prospect of a radiation disaster on Thursday when a Russian-occupied nuclear plant was disconnected from Ukraine’s power grid, President Volodomyr Zelensky has said. As reported by the BBC. The image above appears in the article. It is entitled “Fire near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.”

As reported by BBC News.

As reported by the Washington Post: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said he supports allowing U.N. experts to inspect the Zaporizhzhia plant “as soon as possible” and agreed to provide the “necessary assistance,” during a call with French President Emmanuel Macron. However, Moscow has rejected broader requests to withdraw its military from the site, and has…

Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant is also its most vulnerable. As reported by VOX. (The record needs to be set straight on an error reported in the article. The article reports that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was designed to withstand shelling or other military attack. This is not true. See, for example, this New…

Workers from the Zaporizhzhia facility describe disappearances at the hands of Russian soldiers and fear of nuclear catastrophe As reported by the Washington Post.

As reported by the Washington Post.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe, has already been hit by shelling, and the United Nations chief, warning of disaster, called for a demilitarized zone around it. As reported by the New York Times.

The European Union and others, including the United States of America, have issued a joint statement urging the Russian military to withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.