Serious concerns about the Zaporizhia nuclear plant

Half a year of war on Ukraine, and there is no glimmer of hope to stop it

Zaporizhia station was bombed.

Reuters

"We have to be prepared for the possibility that (the war) will continue for a long time," says a military doctor on the battlefront in southern Ukraine.

The dentist, who is called by his colleagues as "Doc" (40 years), continues: "There are many tears and a lot of blood.

It breaks the heart.”

He added that the war "destroys the history of many generations," and by Wednesday (tomorrow) it will be six months since its outbreak.

Russia began its war on Ukraine with the aim of controlling the capital, Kyiv, in a lightning attack on February 24.

But the Ukrainian forces confronted and showed fierce resistance, which prompted the Russian forces to retreat and transform the conflict area to the Donbas basin in the east of the country and to other agricultural areas in the south.

A few weeks ago, Ukraine announced the implementation of counterattacks in the south, which were slowed down due to the delay in the arrival of arms aid from Western countries.

And when the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, was asked Friday, during a visit to Odessa (southern Ukraine), if there was any hope that the war would end, he replied, after closing his eyes and hesitating, “The situation is very difficult, and the prospects for peace are uncertain.”

There is nothing new on the war front in Mykolaiv, the most important city in the south that had a population of about half a million people before the Russian attack.

Winter rains wetted the posters supporting the army, torn them by the spring winds and the heat of summer.

The sandbags in front of the railings began to sew apart as weeds sprouted between the hollows.

During the first weeks of the war, a bomb fell on the roof of the local government building and killed 37 people, and the crater that it left remains visible to this day in the area that is constantly targeted by the bombing.

Last week, the University of Pietro-Migula, located on the Black Sea, was bombed twice.

The main entrance was completely destroyed, as well as parts of the ceiling, and the windows were smashed.

And through the ruined facade the classrooms can be seen.

“They attack schools, hospitals, the port and infrastructure in the city,” said the university's director, Leonid Klimonko, standing in a hall where the bombing left a hole.

It is clear that they want to destroy the entire Ukrainian education system, to destroy the Ukrainian spirit, to destroy everything that is Ukrainian.”

With the war approaching its seventh month, there is no glimmer of hope on the horizon.

Thanks to an agreement between the United Nations and Turkey to allow wheat to be taken out of Ukrainian ports, the export of grain, an important commodity awaited by many countries of the world, has resumed.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations visited the port of Odessa, on Friday, to witness the implementation of the agreement.

But his visit was overshadowed by serious concerns about the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

The station, the largest in Europe, is located 200 km northeast of Mykolaiv, and has been controlled by Russian forces since the start of the war.

The station is constantly bombed, which raises fears of a nuclear catastrophe.

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