Moscow, Aug 28, (dpa/GNA) – There has been no increase in radiation levels at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, following the latest shelling around the Russian-occupied site, authorities in Kiev and Moscow said on Sunday.
The radiation situation remains normal, the Russian Defence Ministry said in Moscow, echoing a similar statement made by Ukrainian state nuclear operator Enerhoatom.
For weeks, both sides have accused each other of shelling the sprawling complex, raising the spectre of disaster at Europe’s biggest nuclear plant.
Moscow on Sunday said there had been two more artillery attacks in the past day. One shell hit near reactor number six, the other at a pumping station that provides cooling.
The battlefield claims made by Kiev and Moscow, could not be independently verified.
After the nuclear plant was temporarily disconnected from Ukraine’s power grid on Thursday, following an emergency shutdown, two units are back online, according to Enerhoatom.
The Russian military meanwhile confirmed an attack on the city of Zaporizhzhya, which sits across the Dnipro River, using “high-precision weapons.”
A hall where Ukrainian air force helicopters were repaired was hit, the ministry said.
Elsewhere, the Ukrainian mayor of the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, wrote on Telegram that a Russian military base had been destroyed in the south-eastern city.
GNA