What's happened in Ukraine
Politics
12:40 04 Mar, 2022
Updates about Ukraine crisis so far
If you're just joining our live updates of the Ukraine crisis then, welcome. Here’s what Qazet.az reported for past couple hours;
- A fire broke out at the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest - after a Russian shelling attack. Ukraine responders have managed to extinguish the blaze
- Ukraine’s State Emergency Services said there were no victims from the fire, which didn’t affect the reactor sites but a nearby five-storey training site
- Russia’s attack sparked immediate condemnation from Western leaders who called it a “horrific” and “reckless” act that threatened the safety of all of Europe
- Ukraine President Zelensky had hours ago called on other nations to take more action immediately againsty Putin's “nuclear terror”
- He called on Europeans to “wake up” to the prospect of a global catastrophe like the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, and said Russia was the first country in history to try and bomb a nuclear power plant
- Elsewhere, Russia is strengthening its campaign in the south of Ukraine, where it’s closing in on the key city of Mariupol after capturing Kherson two days ago.
- Over a million refugees have now fled Ukraine. Both Russia and Ukaine have agreed to establishing “humanitarian corridors” to evacuate civilians