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Ukraine residents flee town near nuclear site; grain cargo reaches Syria

There were reports that conditions were unraveling in and near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine (Photo: AP/PTI)
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File Photo: This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine (Photo: AP/PTI)

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Artillery fire resumed on Sunday from the direction of a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, with shells streaking into a town from which the Ukrainian army has been unable to return fire, for fear of causing a meltdown or releasing radiation at the plant.

There were reports that conditions were unraveling in and near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

The plant is the first active nuclear power plant in a combat zone. The United States and European Union have called for the formation of a demilitarised zone. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that Russia had resorted to “nuclear blackmail” at the