Ukraine war: ‘Russia using nuclear plant as cover to shell us’

BBC News:

Russian forces at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine are employing “terror tactics” by using the site to launch rocket attacks on civilians, the BBC has been told.

“Every morning we wake up and see that they have hit only residential homes,” a local businessman told us.

Russia controls the Zaporizhzhia plant and surrounding areas, close to Ukrainian-held territory.

Western officials have sounded the alarm about Russia’s tactics there.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lies in the south-east of Ukraine along the eastern bank of the Dnipro river. It is currently still being operated by Ukrainian employees under Russian supervision.

It consists of six pressurised water reactors and stores radioactive waste.