Russia has been condemned for targeting Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in the latest escalation of its war against Ukraine – with the US warning that the world had only “narrowly avoided catastrophe”.
As shells hit the area early on Friday, a blaze broke out in a training building at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. It was later extinguished. Officials said that no release of radiation had been reported, however there is concern for workers at the plant, who are now operating under battlefield conditions and out of reach of direct communication with Ukrainian officials.
