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  • The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Sunday denounced "deliberate and targeted" firing against the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, calling for "stop this madness".

  • Russia and Ukraine again accused each other on Sunday of having bombed this nuclear power plant militarily occupied by the Russian army.

    kyiv also denied having executed several Russian soldiers who had gone there.

  • In his daily address, Volodymyr Zelensky said nearly 400 Russian attacks took place in eastern Ukraine on Sunday alone.

    In the south of the country, in Kherson, which Ukrainian troops recently reconquered, the inhabitants were confronted with Russian bombardments, after eight months of occupation.

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06:38: …And that of the Ukrainians

For its part, the Ukrainian nuclear agency accused Russia of having bombed the plant.

“This morning of November 20, 2022, following heavy Russian bombing, at least 12 strikes were recorded at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant site,” Energoatom said, accusing the Russians of “once again organizing a nuclear blackmail and put the whole world in danger".

06:34: The Russian version…

For the Russian Ministry of Defence, "the regime in kyiv does not cease provocations in order to create the threat of a catastrophe at the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye".

On Saturday and Sunday, Ukrainian forces fired more than 20 "large-caliber shells" at the plant, a ministry statement said.

These shells notably exploded between energy blocks number 4 and 5 and targeted the roof of a "special building" located near these blocks.

This "special building" houses a nuclear fuel depot, said an official of the Russian nuclear electricity producer Rosenergoatom, Renat Kartchaa.

Despite these bombings, “the level of radiation in the area of ​​the power plant remains within the norm”, underlines the Russian Ministry of Defense.

6:20 am: Rafael Grossi furious

About Zaporozhe, “explosions took place on the site of this major nuclear power plant, which is completely unacceptable”, declared Sunday Rafael Grossi, in an interview with BFMTV.

“Whoever it is, this must stop immediately,” urged the IAEA chief, insisting: “People doing this know where they are hitting.

It is absolutely deliberate, targeted”.

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Like every day, the editorial staff of

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On the ground, the situation of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is once again worrying.

Russia and Ukraine once again accused each other on Sunday of having bombed the site occupied militarily by the Russian army.

For Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), everything must be done to "stop this madness".

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