Just hours after the latest foreign calls to prevent attacks around Ukraine’s main nuclear plant, there were new allegations of Russian bombing near the Zaporizhzhya facility on Monday morning.
Nikopol, on the opposite bank of the Dnieper River and about 10 km downstream from the factory, arrived here with three shots a night from rockets and mortars, hitting houses, a kindergarten, the bus station and shops, regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said. Ukrainian media reported that four other people were injured.
“People are afraid,” Natalia Horbolit, Nikopol’s deputy mayor, told CBS News’ Charlie D’Agata week. “Everyone is afraid” of the worst happening, he said.
Horbolit said about 40 percent of the city’s citizens had fled since the worst bombing began last month around Europe’s largest nuclear plant. is an official demilitarized zone.
After U. N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres again called prudence a stopover in Ukraine last week, U. S. President Joe Biden discussed the issue with the leaders of France, Germany and Britain on Sunday.
The 4 leaders under pressure want army operations in the region to spare them the option of a potentially devastating nuclear fate reversal and called for the UN Atomic Energy Agency to be able to call at the facilities as soon as possible.
However, nothing seemed certain in a war that has sown concern and unrest far beyond the front lines in eastern and southern Ukraine, as well as in the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, and as far away as Moscow, where on Saturday night a car explosion killed the daughters of an influential Russian political theorist called “Putin’s mastermind. “
On Monday, the Russian government was looking for other clues that could be just the incident, after the government said initial data indicated that 29-year-old TV commentator Daria Dugina was killed by an explosive placed in the van she was driving.
A former Russian opposition lawmaker, Ilya Ponomarev, said an unknown Russian group, the Republican National Army, claimed responsibility for the attack. The Palestinian Authority may simply not determine the lifestyles of the group. Ponomarev, who left Russia after voting against its annexation of Crimea in 2014, did the interview on Ukrainian television.
The Ukrainians have denied any involvement.