Intense fighting reported in Ukraine as last nuclear reactor is shut down amid flooding -
After Russian forces pummeled Ukraine with missiles and drones overnight resulting in deaths and damage to a military airfield, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Kyiv Saturday for an previously unannounced visit, his second trip to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February last year. He was accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
At the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest, which is occupied by Russian forces, five out of six reactors were already in a state of cold shutdown, That’s a process in which all control rods are inserted into the reactor core to stop the nuclear fission reaction and generation of heat and pressure.
The site’s power units have not been operating since September last year. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is due to visit Ukraine in the coming days. In Ukraine’s northeast, a 29-year-old man was killed as more than 10 drones targeted the Kharkiv region, its governor, Oleh Syniehubov, reported Saturday. He added that at least three other civilians were wounded.
The fighting and civilian casualties took renewed attention as authorities in southern Ukraine said water levels have been declining in a vast area beneath the ruptured dam. In the city of Kherson, whose outskirts were among the flood-hit areas, the average water level decreased by 31 centimeters during the night, but remained over 4.5 meters higher than usual, regional Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin reported Saturday.
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