Ukrainian rocket fire put an important bridge in Kherson region out of action on Friday, Ukraine's southern military command said. Map locating Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant with Russian occupied Ukrainian territory FIGHTING Ukraine and the West say this is a baseless pretext for a war of conquest. The Kremlin says its aim is to "denazify" and demilitarize Ukraine and remove perceived security threats to Russia. School teacher Hanna Kuz, 46, said people were afraid that the Ukrainian authorities might not be able to warn residents in time in case of radiation fallout. Everyone is scared, we don’t know what will happen next, what is waiting for us every next minute, second," said social media manager Maria Varakina, 25. Residents in Zaporizhzhia city, 50 km northeast of the plant, expressed alarm at the situation. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Ukraine was trying to disrupt such a visit by attacking the plant. Moscow, which has forces based in the plant's complex, said it was doing everything to ensure that an IAEA visit, expected in the coming days, could take place safely. Zelenskiy also reiterated Ukraine's demand that the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), be urgently allowed to visit the Zaporizhzhia plant. Satellite images showed a fire near the plant but Reuters could not verify its cause. The two sides have traded the blame for shelling near the plant, which on Thursday sparked fires in the ash pits of a nearby coal power station that disconnected the plant from the power grid. Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February, took control of the nuclear plant in March, though it is still operated by Ukrainian technicians working for Energoatom. "Any repeat of yesterday's events, meaning any disconnection of the station from the grid, any action by Russia that could provoke the disconnection of reactors, would once again place the station one step away from a catastrophe," Zelenskiy said. "Let me stress that the situation remains very risky and dangerous," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his regular evening address, praising Ukrainian experts working to "avert the worst-case scenario." Among us reactor meltdown hand for free#Register now for FREE unlimited access to Register
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