The Russian military is reworking Europe’s largest nuclear power plant right into a navy base overlooking an lively entrance, intensifying a monthslong security disaster for the huge facility and its 1000’s of workers.
On the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant in southern Ukraine, greater than 500 Russian troopers who seized the power in March just lately have deployed heavy artillery batteries, and laid anti-personnel mines alongside the shores of the reservoir whose water cools its six reactors, in accordance with employees, residents, Ukrainian officers, and diplomats. The Ukrainian military holds the towns dotted on the opposite shore, some 3 miles away, however sees no straightforward approach to assault the plant, given the inherent hazard of artillery battles round lively nuclear reactors.