A fire broke out on August 11 at a cooling tower at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine following what Russian officials say was Ukrainian shelling, which authorities in Kyiv denied. Management of the plant said the fire was still blazing but that it was not endangering the safe operation of the facility. Ukrainian officials said there was unofficial information that Russian forces had set fire to a large number of automobile tires in the cooling towers. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said radiation indicators appeared normal for the plant, which was taken over by Russian forces shortly after the February 2022 invasion.
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