The Latest Breaking News from Zaporizhzhia

Ukraine said on Monday that Russia was preparing for a fresh wave of missile attacks on its energy grid that have plunged swathes of the country into the cold and dark. The warning came as Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks in the Donetsk region, including in the areas of the…

Ukraine’s nuclear power provider accused Russia on Saturday of “kidnapping” the head of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, a facility now occupied by Russian troops. Russian forces seized the director-general of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ihor Murashov, around 4 p.m.

The besieged Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility may be closed as residents near the plant are urged to evacuate.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered to mediate the standoff between Kyiv and Moscow over Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, which has been occupied by Russian troops since early in the invasion. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris…

Russian energy giant Gazprom on Tuesday announced it would suspend gas supplies to France's main provider Engie from Thursday. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky met with top UN nuclear inspectors in Kyiv on Tuesday ahead of their visit to inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Read our live blog to see how…

Russian shellfire hit the towns of Nikopol and Marhanets near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine on Saturday, Nikopol's mayor said, fuelling more fears of a potential radiation leak. Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom said it was assessing damage to the grounds of the plant after a day of…

Leaders of US, UK, Germany and France say inspectors need to visit the Zaporizhzhia power plant as soon as possible.

The world will lose to terrorism and give in to nuclear blackmail if it takes no action to prevent an accident at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday.

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Thursday to address the crisis at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex, the power plant that Kyiv and Moscow accuse each other of having bombed, diplomatic sources said. A source in the Security Council presidency, currently held by China, told AFP on Wednesday…

Ukraine's president called on the West to impose a blanket travel ban on Russians, an idea that has found support among some European states but angered Moscow, which pressed on with a fierce military offensive in eastern Ukraine.

Russian officials have attempted to enter and take full operational control of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the head of Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom said on Friday.