KYIV
\nRussia and Ukraine accused each other on Thursday of shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ahead of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to address global concerns over the facility.
\nZaporizhzhia is the biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and in Europe. It has been controlled by Russian troops since March.
\nVladimir Rogov, a member of the Moscow-installed regional administration, said Ukrainian forces \u201conce again struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant\u201d in southern Ukraine on messaging app Telegram.
\nAccording to Rogov, Ukrainians used multiple launch rocket systems and heavy artillery to carry out the strikes.
\nBut Ukraine s nuclear agency Energoatom said \u201cthe Russians shelled the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant again\u201d.
\nThe situation at the station is \u201ccurrently under control,\u201d Energoatom said.
\nIn a later statement, Energoatom ensured that radiation levels at the plant were \u201cwithin normal limits\u201d.
\nA pro-Moscow official also later said the levels were \u201cnormal\u201d.
\n\u201cNo contamination has been recorded at the station, radiation levels are normal,\u201d the head of the Moscow-installed regional administration, Yevgeny Balitsky, said on Telegram.
\nThere were five strikes on the plant itself, near the command post and near a radioactive substance storage unit, according to the Russian and Ukrainian statements.
\nFears of a nuclear disaster grew last week after renewed shelling near the nuclear plant.
\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned of a \u201cdisaster\u201d on Thursday ahead of the UN Security Council meeting later on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KYIV Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Thursday of shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ahead of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to address global concerns over the facility. Zaporizhzhia is the biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and in Europe. It has been controlled by Russian troops since March. Vladimir Rogov, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[338,456],"class_list":{"0":"post-277051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-russia","9":"tag-ukraine"},"yoast_head":"\n