Live Updates: Russians Seize Europe’s Largest
Nuclear Plant, Ukraine Says
A fire set off by the fight over the plant was
extinguished, and there was no immediate sign that radiation had leaked. Across
Ukraine, Russian forces are laying siege to cities and trying to control vital
ports.
March 4,
2022, 5:58 a.m. ET21 minutes ago
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The New
York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/04/world/russia-ukraine
Russian
troops in southeastern Ukraine have seized Europe’s largest nuclear power
plant, Ukrainian officials said on Friday, but a fire there that had raised
worldwide alarms was extinguished. There had been worries that the fire could
spread to nuclear reactors and lead to radiation leaks, but international
monitors said Friday morning that there was no immediate sign that radiation
had leaked during the battle for the plant.
Across
Ukraine, Russian forces are pressing ahead, laying siege to cities and trying
to control vital ports, and Western officials said Moscow’s forces were
targeting civilians and critical infrastructure. Russia’s continuing gains in
the south could make it harder for Ukraine’s army to fight in other parts of
the country.
Ukraine’s spirited
defense has slowed the Russian advance, notably near Kyiv, the capital, where
its forces have attacked a vast armored convoy bearing down on the city. But
Russia is adding forces from the south and west in its efforts to take Kyiv,
which the Ukrainian military said Friday remained a “key” Russian objective.
Here are
the latest developments:
Several
large explosions shook central Kyiv at around 11 a.m. on Friday, though it was
not immediately clear what had been hit.
Russians
are in control of Kherson and are bearing down on another important city,
Mykolaiv, which could allow their forces to surround some the best-trained
Ukrainian fighters in the southeast.
The
southern port city of Mariupol has been encircled, and the Russian bombardment
there has cut power, water and heat to the people, the mayor said.
The
Ukrainian military also warned on Friday that the Russian naval fleet in the
Black Sea was preparing for an amphibious assault as part of a plan to move on
Odessa, a vital southern port city. Ukraine’s defense minister said its navy
had deliberately sunk the flagship of its Black Sea fleet so that the Russians
could not seize it.
Russian
bombardment of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has devastated
residential areas and business districts, videos verified by The New York
Times’s Visual Investigations team show.
The U.S. is
imposing sanctions on eight members of Russia’s elite and placing visa
restrictions on 19 oligarchs and their families, the White House said. The
Biden administration also said it would allow some Ukrainians to stay
temporarily in the country, and the European Union and Canada announced similar
measures for Ukrainians fleeing the invasion.
March 4,
2022, 6:12 a.m. ET7 minutes ago
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Marc
Santora and William J. Broad
Fire at a Ukrainian nuclear plant is out, but
Russian troops take control of the site.
A damaged
administrative building of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar,
Ukraine, in a handout picture released on Friday.
A damaged
administrative building of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar,
Ukraine, in a handout picture released on Friday.Credit...Energoatom/Via
Reuters
LVIV,
Ukraine — Russian troops seized control of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
in southeastern Ukraine before dawn on Friday, according to Ukrainian
officials, but a fire set off by a raging gun battle had been extinguished. The
fighting and fire had raised worldwide alarm because of the potential that they
could reach and damage the nuclear reactors and cause a radiation leak.
International
monitors said early Friday that there was no immediate sign that radiation had
leaked from the Zaporizhzhia plant. The Ukrainian emergency services agency
said the fire had been contained to a training facility on the perimeter of the
complex.
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