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Added on the 07/09/2022 11:50:39 - Copyright : France 24 EN
The Red Cross demands a halt to all military operations around a Russian-held nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, warning the consequences of a strike could be "catastrophic". "It is high time to stop playing with fire and instead take concrete measures to protect this facility and others like it from any military operations," Robert Mardini, director general of the ICRC, tells reporters in Kyiv. SOUNDBITE
UN nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, arrives at Ukraine's Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic plant to assess the situation after a dam near the plant was damaged earlier this month. IMAGES
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi arrives at Ukraine's Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic plant to assess the situation after a dam near the plant was damaged earlier this month. IMAGES
Thick smoke hangs over Ukraine's capital Kiev as forest fires smoulder on in the Chernobyl nuclear zone, while city officials say no radiation spike had been detected. IMAGES
A forest fire in the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone spreads further, fanned by strong winds, authorities say, insisting that radiation levels remained normal. IMAGES of the forest fire
The chief of the UN's nuclear watchdog says there is no immeidate risk to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after damage to a major dam some 150 km away in occupied Ukraine caused floods. Whilst the IAEA is aware of reports of damage at the Kakhovka dam, Director General Rafael Grossi says the watchdog's "current assessment is that there is no immediate risk to the safety of the (Zaporizhzhia) plant." SOUNDBITE