Zaporozhye NPP MOSCOW, Mar 4 Andriy Tuz, a spokesman for the Zaporozhye NPP in Ukraine, reported that a fire broke out on the territory of the plant. «Fire at a nuclear power plant,» Tuz said in a video message published on the Zaporozhye NPP Telegram channel. smoke rises on the territory of the station. Earlier, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that the Russian army took control of the cities of Berdyansk and Energodar in the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, as well as the territory around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. It was noted that the NPP personnel continue to maintain facilities and control the radioactive situation in the normal mode, the radioactive background is normal. The management company Energoatom noted earlier that all Ukrainian nuclear power plants are operating normally, there are no violations of the conditions for safe operation. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.
