Kiev: shot at civilians in Zaporizhia news

According to the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, three civilians were injured after a village in Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraine, was bombed.

Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, reports via messaging app Telegram that Russian forces fired on the nearby village of Stepnohirske with multiple rocket launchers, hitting an administration building.

Russia is also believed to have bombed the city of Zaporizhia, hitting and damaging at least 16 buildings, according to the secretary of the city council. Yermak said the wounded were two women and a man.

The nuclear power plant (NPP) located in Zaporizhia had aroused great international concern in recent days. After repeated warnings from Russia and Ukraine about the other side’s alleged attack plans, the IAEA requested extended access to the plant to check the plant site for mines or explosives.

Rosatom boss rejects allegations

The Ukrainian military accused the Russian occupiers of, among other things, attaching “explosive-like objects” to the roofs of two reactors.

The head of Russia’s Rosatom nuclear agency, Alexey Likhachev, rejected allegations that Moscow planned to blow up the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. “You would have to be a complete idiot to prepare to blow up a power plant where 3,500 people work every day,” Likhachev said in an interview with Russian state television.

Russia: Attacks on Sevastopol repelled

According to their own statements, Russia’s air defense forces and Russian Black Sea Fleet repelled Ukrainian drone strikes in Sevastopol, Crimea this morning.

As Mikhail Rasvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol, writes in Telegram, the attacks took place in the port of Sevastopol and in the districts of Balaklava and Chersonese. There was no immediate indication of the extent of the attack or anything else.