Russian Army Turns Ukraine’s Largest Nuclear Plant Into a Military Base

The Russian military is reworking Europe’s largest nuclear power plant into a navy base overlooking an energetic entrance, intensifying a monthslong security disaster for the huge facility and its hundreds of workers.

At the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, greater than 500 Russian troopers who seized the plant in March have in latest weeks deployed heavy artillery batteries and laid anti-personnel mines alongside the shores of the reservoir whose water cools its six reactors, in response to staff, residents, Ukrainian officers, and diplomats. The Ukrainian military holds the towns dotted on the opposite shore, some 3 miles away, however sees no straightforward approach to assault the plant, given the inherent hazard of artillery battles round energetic nuclear reactors.