The mayor of Energodar, Ukraine, Dmytro Orlov, said that the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Ukraine had caught fire. Earlier, the official had said That Ukrainian troops were fighting Russian troops on the outskirts of the city.
On March 2, 2022 local time, the Russian Defense Ministry released a message saying that the Russian army has taken control of Tokmak and Vasilievka in Zaporozhye Oblast. The local Ukrainian army voluntarily surrendered its weapons and would be free after signing a declaration refusing to participate in the fighting
On the evening of March 3, 2022, local time, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm sent three tweets in a row, saying that she had not found an increase in radiation readings near the nuclear power plant, and the reactors of the nuclear power plants were also safely protected and were being safely shut down.
But Ukraine's State Emergency Service denied news of a fire at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, saying the fire took place in a nearby training building.
Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, Russian: Запоро́жье) is located on the banks of the Dnieper River in central and eastern Ukraine, the capital of Zaporozhye Oblast, the sixth largest city in Ukraine, with a population of about 800,000 (2007). Several nomadic people have visited this place. Historically, it was a Cossack city. The center of Ukraine's power industry, near the first hydroelectric power plant in the Soviet Union and the Zaporozhian nuclear power plant.
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Ukraine's Ministry of State Emergency Situations said the fire near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant had been extinguished and no casualties had been reported.
