Fire at Ukraine's largest nuclear facility extinguished as Russian forces take control
A fire at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Enerhodar was extinguished Friday, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.
The fire occurred in a training building at the site after shelling from Russian forces. There were no victims, the emergency service said.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe.
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Meanwhile, Energodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov told reporters Friday morning that the city is now under the control of Russian forces and fighting near the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant has stopped. It's the second Ukrainian nuclear facility to fall under Russian control since the invasion began Feb. 24. Last week, Russian forces seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where the world's worst nuclear accident took place in 1986, and the surrounding exclusion zone, which includes the ghost city of Pripyat.
Ukraine's national nuclear regulator has said that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant's employees are being permitted to work as normal, safety systems are currently functioning and there was no reported change in radiation levels at the site.
-ABC News’ Brian Hartman and Patrick Reevell