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power plant. workers are now working there at gunpoint. former nato supreme ally commander, general clark. i want to start with the nuclear clark. we heard from the head of the iaea, no radiation leaks, no signs of serious damage to the reactors. but the word that the people running it are operating it under gunpoint this morning. the significance of that? . well, i think they re going to operate it as well as they can anyway. anybody in a nuclear power plant is always operating with the understanding if things go wrong it is extremely dangerous. they don t like operating it under gunpoint, but they are going to operate under gunpoint and keep it safe. what do the russians do with the power? this is 25% of ukraine s power. and so it looks to me like a strategic move on the part russian forces to grab hold of the power plants, cut off the
33 people killed there, 18 others injured. a man speaking into his phone and interrupted by an explosion and heavy shelling . secretary of statement antony blinken in talk with allies. we re going to begin our coverage with chief national security correspondent jim sciutto live on the ground in lviv, ukraine. jim, i want to focus on the news coming out of the zaporizhzhia power plant this morning. word from the company that runs it that station managers are now working under invader gunpoint. just chilling.
maybe the kind of escalation and the direction that isn t very helpful. yeah. i think that. you might really be onto something there, i will say. thank you so much. thank you to both of you. thank you. . thank you. all right. breaking news this morning, the russians are in essential control of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plan. this after an attack on the power plant overnight. we are told by the company that owns this power plant that station managers are working at invader gunpoint this morning. luckily, we re told, no elevated levels of nuclear energy. we have much more. our breaking news coverage continues right after this.
this is cnn breaking news. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is friday, march 4th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. russia has attacked a civilian nuclear power plant. this is a first in human history. russian troops control the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, setting parts of it on fire. this is the largest nuclear plant in ukraine and also the largest in all of europe. and that fire is now out. the company that runs the plant says managers are now working at gunpoint. so far we are told there has not been a release of radioactive material. and the integrity of the reactors has not been compromised. are the cooling systems safe? no indications they are not. we are trying to get good answers to these questions. just moments ago, this tweet from the account from the u.s.