Russia is charged by Ukraine with shelling from a seized nuclear reactor.
Ukraine's nuclear energy agency charged that Russia shelled the nearby communities of Nikopol and Dnipro on Saturday and stored weapons at Europe's largest nuclear power facility. Up to 500 Russian soldiers were in charge of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, according to Petro Kotin, president of the Ukrainian nuclear agency Energoatom, who described the situation as "very serious."
Although it is still run by Ukrainian
employees, the facility in southeast Ukraine has been under Russian authority
from the first weeks of Moscow's invasion.
In an interview with Ukrainian
television that was aired on Friday, he claimed that "the occupants bring
their apparatus there, including missile systems, from which they already shell
the land of Nikopol and the other bank of the river Dnipro."
According to Valentin Reznichenko, the governor of the Dnipro region, Russian missiles attacked residential structures in the city of Nikopol on Saturday, killing two people.
Oleg
Synegubov, the governor of the northeastern area of Kharkiv, the second largest
city in Ukraine, reported that three persons were murdered in the village of
Chuguiv by a Russian missile attack overnight. After a woman passed away from
her injuries in the hospital on Saturday, officials in the Ukrainian city of
Vinnytsia reported that the total number of people killed by Russian strikes
now stands at 24. According to Ukraine, three kids are among the deceased.
"Sixty-eight
people, including four children, continue receiving therapy. According to
Sergiy Borzov, the district chief of Vinnytsia, four persons are still missing.
The Russians were allegedly trying to "do maximum damage to Ukrainian
cities," according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In
his daily address on Friday, he pleaded with the audience, "I'm imploring
you, once again: please don't ignore the air raid signals now." Russian
claims international armament dealers and Ukrainian military officials were
killed in the strikes near Vinnytsia, hundreds of kilometres away from the
front lines of combat.
Ukraine,
however, said that the fatalities also included four-year-old Liza Dmitrieva, a
Down's syndrome sufferer whose passing sparked a public outcry after a video of
her last minutes alive went viral on social media.
Officials
first assumed Liza's mother was also dead, but they now know she underwent
surgery and is in a "serious" condition. Less than a week had passed
since assaults on Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region, and the most recent attacks
to cause a significant civilian casualty were missile strikes on Vinnytsia.
killed
almost 50 people.
Anastasiya
added, "I have no words to explain the trauma I suffered today,"
after rockets landed close to her home on Friday in Kramatorsk, a significant
city and the Donbass' administrative hub. It's fortunate that it landed outside
rather than flying into the home. That was fortunate.
On
February 24, Moscow invaded Ukraine. Since then, hundreds have died in the
fight, which has also damaged cities and driven millions of people from their
homes. The eastern industrial Donbas region has seen the most intense fighting
recently, where gruelling trench fights and artillery duel are evolving into an
attrition war.
The Kremlin "must take the full responsibility," according to Britain, for the death of a British hostage, which occurred on Friday.
east of Ukraine. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said: "I am shocked to hear reports of the death of British aid worker Paul Urey while in the hands of a Russian proxy in Ukraine."
After seizing control of the sister cities Lysychansk and Severodonetsk, which are located approximately 30 kilometres (18 miles) to the east of Siversk, Moscow-backed rebels announced on Friday that Siversk was their next target.
Daniil Versonov, a representative of the Donetsk separatists, claimed that small groups of rebel fighters were "cleaning" Siversk's eastern neighbourhoods. Ukraine has pleaded with partners on numerous occasions to give it cutting-edge, long-range precision artillery systems so it can target Russian forces farther within Ukrainian-held territory.