The Latest Breaking News from Zaporizhzhia

Nearly four million people in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia are being asked to participate in polling dismissed by Ukraine as ‘sham’

U.N. atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday he is ready to hold talks in Ukraine and Russia this week on setting up a protection zone at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine that he often says is needed urgently.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday released his evening video address in which he said the world would condemn the 'pseudo-referendums' being carried out in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The Kremlin-orchestrated referendums in the Luhansk, Kherson and partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions were widely seen as a prelude to…

KYIV -- A worker of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has revealed details about the tough situation at the facility in an online interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia’s decision to seize Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was a “flagrant breach” of its past commitments to safety.

The widely condemned referendums have been taking place in four occupied regions of Ukraine - Luhansk, Dnetsk, Khereson and Zaporizhzhia.

Ukrainians are fleeing from Russian-held areas to avoid the sham referendums, which could pave the way for annexation. "It was all staged," said one Ukrainian. "How can you vote when they have guns?"

The Kremlin-orchestrated votes in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia are widely considered to be illegitmate

Moscow-held regions of Ukraine begin voting Friday on whether to become part of Russia, in referendums that Kyiv and its allies have condemned as an unlawful land grab. The referendums in eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions have been roundly dismissed…

Poland, concerned about fighting around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, has distributed iodine tablets to regional fire departments to give to people in the event of radioactive exposure, a deputy minister said on Thursday.

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says he'll meet with Ukraine’s and Russia’s foreign ministers in a bid to establish a safety and security zone around a nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine that is Europe’s largest