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victoria gill, now takes a look at what those concerns might be. warfare at a nuclear power plant. overnight, a shell hit a building at zaporizhzhia, europe s largest nuclear power facility. translation: russian troops attacked the largest nuclear . power plant in europe. it s maybe six times the size of chornobyl. the russian tanks knew what they were firing at. they directly hit the plant. this is terror on an unprecedented level. a blaze, which was quickly extinguished, was limited to a training facility building. critically, it didn t affect any of the nuclear reactors. the complex of reactor buildings is about a kilometre long, and now only one of the six reactors here is reported to be operating, with the rest safely shut down. we, of course, are fortunate that there was no release of radiation and that the integrity of the reactors in themselves
this is satellite image from energy company maxar. as you can see from the flash the satellite appears tuesday have captured the muzzle flash from one of those guns. however, it s unclear what they re firing at. there s also new video as well a fresh reminder how punishing russian tactics have been. it was provided by ukrainian emergency services and comes from dnipro. now, this is the first time in russia s ifivation that they have hit that city, and it s
ukrainian capital. unclear whether or not that was a ukraine aircraft, but certainly appeared to us as though it was possibly what these surface-to-air weapons were firing at. that lasted several minutes. you can see quite active here in the ukrainian capital over the past hour, over this past day. of course, as the u.s. and its allies say the russian offensive essentially remains bogged down, not advancing much towards the capital of kyiv certainly not for lack of trying. russians have a very, very large force especially to the north of the ukrainian capital, jim. fred, russian troops are trying to advance on kyiv. now at risk of being stalled because of a flooding. a dam north of the ukrainian capital apparently is flooding. reporter: yes. what more do we know about that? reporter: one of the many problems they are facing. a dam that apparently is flooding in the irpin river, an arm of the river, mighty river goes through the ukrainian capital. one hard to cross in any case.
sanctions could cause the international space station to crash. they believe the measures could disrupt the operations of russian vessels servicing the iss. the russian section of the station weighs 500 tonnes and helps correct its orbit. let s just share with you some of the footage filmed by the reuters news agency in kyiv, shortly after dawn on saturday. gunfire. you can hear what appears to be gunshots and firing in the distance. it s not clear who is shooting, nor who they may be firing at but it s perhaps the first time gunshots have been so audible in the centre of kyiv since the russian invasion began. just the latest snapshot of the