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Kyiv accuses Russia of strike on nuclear plant in Ukraine

"Powerful explosion just 300 metres" from the reactors

19 September, 12:05
(ANSA-AFP) - KYIV, SEP 19 - Ukraine's nuclear energy agency Energoatom on Monday accused Moscow's troops of an attack on the country's second largest nuclear plant in the south. "The Russian army carried out a missile attack on the industrial site" of the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant, Energoatom said in a post on the Telegram messaging service, adding that a "powerful explosion" took place "just 300 metres" from the reactors of the facility's reactors. (ANSA-AFP).

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