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Russian forces are firing at a nuclear research facility in Kharkiv: Ukraine
"It is currently impossible to estimate the extent of damage due to hostilities that do not stop in the area of the nuclear installation," the post quoted the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate as saying.
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Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), stands in front of a map of the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia power plant as he informs the press about the situation of nuclear powerplants in Ukraine during a special press conference at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria on March 4, 2022. Grossi offered to travel to Chernobyl in order to negotiate with Ukraine and Russia in order to try to ensure the security of Ukraine's nuclear sites. (AFP/Joe Klamar)
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ussian forces are firing at a nuclear research facility in the city of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian parliament said in a Twitter post on Saturday.
"It is currently impossible to estimate the extent of damage due to hostilities that do not stop in the area of the nuclear installation," the post quoted the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate as saying.
Russian forces have also taken control of Ukraine's Slavutych, where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, and three people were killed, Interfax Ukraine news agency quoted the local mayor as saying.
The governor of Kyiv region, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, had earlier announced the capture in an online post.
The town sits just outside a safety exclusion zone around Chernobyl - the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986 - where Ukrainian staff have continued to manage the site even after the territory was occupied by Russian forces soon after the start of the Feb. 24 invasion.
Slavutych has been under occupation since today. We steadfastly defended our city ... three deaths have been confirmed so far," Interfax quoted mayor Yuri Fomichev as saying in a Facebook post. The report did not give details on the casualties.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that it was closely monitoring the situation and expressed concern about the ability of staff to rotate in and out of the atomic power station.
Pavlyuk did not describe how the town had been taken, but said some residents had unfurled a large Ukrainian flag and shouted "Glory to Ukraine" in protest.
He also said the Russians fired into the air to disperse the protest in the centre of the town and had thrown stun grenades into the crowd.
There was no immediate comment from Russia about Slavutych.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said the town had become a new hotspot of the war.
On Friday, Ukraine said Russian troops had drawn close to the town, which had a pre-war population of around 25,000, and had launched an unsuccessful first attack.
Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a "special military operation" to disarm its neighbour. Kyiv and its Western allies call it an unprovoked war of aggression.
