extraordinary. the fact the military operations taking place in that heavily contaminated region is worrying. there s the additional development as well. which it seems the technical staff the people who look after the reactor that exploded in 1986 and the take care of the concrete over the top of it. to make sure no more radiation leaks out. they have been kept in place as well. they re described by ukrainian officials as hostages. obviously the russians want to keep the technical staff there clearly to make sure that an eco-logical disaster didn t take place in the location. once again. they have taken over. more signs that russia is encroaching on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. from every direction. sam, let s bring you in now. president zelensky says 137 ukrainian soldiers have been killed already. and tonight zelensky has is
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
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melted down and was brought under control with a great deal of loss of life. the teams there who were captured by the russian military had been there for more than a week also unable to switch out. putting enormous stress on these nuclear facilities and coming at a time when the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has said that russian forces are now about 20 miles from the southern ukraine nuclear facility, one that has three reactors rather than the six just south of zapor zaporizhzhia. but nonetheless the second largest in the country. and there are deep, deep fears that that too could fall into russian hands. so far, though, the international atomic energy authority has said that the reactors are in the hands of the russians, have not had any serious damage done to them, there are no radiation leaks. sam kiley, cnn, in dnipro. now, the biden administration is watching all of this from washington of course and keeping
that was of course the scene of a nuclear catastrophe in the 1980s that poisoned huge swaths of the landscape from the british isles to russia when it melted down and was brought under control with a great deal of loss of life. the teams there who were captured by the russian military had been there for more than a week also unable to switch out. putting enormous stress on these nuclear facilities and coming at a time when the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has said that russian forces are now about 20 miles from the southern ukraine nuclear facility, one that has three reactors rather than the six just south of zaporizhzhia. but nonetheless the second largest in the country. and there are deep, deep fears that that too could fall into russian hands. so far, though, the international atomic energy authority has said that the reactors are in the hands of the russians, have not had any serious damage done to them, there are no radiation leaks. sam kiley, cnn, in dnipro.