Aug 1, 2022
Russia has turned Europe’s largest nuclear power plant into a fortress.
Along most of the front line in Russia’s war in Ukraine, when one side lets loose with an artillery attack, the other shoots back.
But not in Nikopol, a city deep in southern farm country where the Ukrainian military faces a new and vexing obstacle as it prepares for a major counteroffensive: a nuclear power station that the Russian Army has turned into a fortress
“They are hiding there so they cannot be hit,” said Oleksandr Sayuk, the mayor of Nikopol. “Why else would they be at the electrical station?
To use such an object as a shield is very dangerous.”Residents have been fleeing Nikopol because of the dangers of both shelling and of a potential radiation leak.
And those who remain feel helpless, as if they are targets in a shooting gallery.
“We are like condemned prisoners who must just stand still and be shot at,” said Halyna Hrashchenkova, a retiree whose home was hit by Russian artillery.
“They shoot at us, and there is nothing we can do.”
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