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Where you can hear russian fire jets skreeching overhead followed by enormous blasts and the sense is i got to say, clarissa. gradually getting closer and closer. clarissa, we re showing the videos now the roeuters images, drone images of that apartment block. i mean that is, that is a residential building completely destroyed. reporter: it is, and, you know, the russian line has always been this is a sort of restrained military operation, very targeted, not maximalist or expansionist, not intended to be an occupation, not targeting civilians but when you re looking at those images, as you said, which looks like grasni or sites i ve seen in aleppo, almost apocalyptic nature of ....
Bunch of ukrainian forces in what they call a giant encirclement. this is a sort of classic maneuver, the zaporizhzhia is right in the way but the zaporizhzhia power plant is a really key strategic asset now providing 25% of the power for ukraine. take that offline, the grid is at least temporarily destabilized. you re cutting the ability of ukrainians to be able to handle communications to a lot of other things. it could be cold and dark in some places in ukraine so yeah, that s a military objective now. shooting at it, starting a fire in it, that s crazy stuff. because if one of those, and there are six reactors there, i understand four are operational. if one of those four operational reactors that s under pressure has got a high temperature with water in it, it s radioactive, if that containment gets punctured, something happens to the failsafe mechanism on those ....
Attacks. is a fire at a nuclear power plant, i mean, obviously, it doesn t sound good, but are there systems within a plant to automatically fight a fire? well, yes, but not all fires. and not all fires at a power plant have catastrophic consequences. we can remember what happened at fukushima. the issues really go to whether the fire may be in the cooling pits, because there, you have material that is particularly radioactive, or if ultimately, a fire could cause a meltdown of the reactor and in that case, you would have a huge release of radioactivity and as i say, the radioactivity that was released in 86 from the chernobyl crisis or tragedy, you know, spread all over not just ukraine, but all ....
Lviv. i want to go to nuclear policy expert, from bellford center, can you give us a sense of how concerned should everyone be about the situation at this very large nuclear power plant? the facts are unfolding as we, you know, sit here, but i would say in general, very concerned. we should remember, chernobyl in 86 was a meltdown that spewed radioactive material all over western europe. and so it s conceivable that one could have another version of that. i hope not, i pray not, but things could be worse. the image that you re seeing, it s very obviously, you know, middle of the night, it s hard to see. we zoomed in on what appears to be the fire. we re told firefighters can t fight it because of on going ....
Taking a look at closed circuit tv image from ukraine s largest nuclear plant, a fire breaking out there after a russian assault and now according to local mayor, russian shelling appears to be preventing firefighters from battling the blaze, again, that s from a local mayor, now we hear from retired four star army general westley clark, i wonder about your reaction to this around the nuclear power plant, obviously a lot we do not know about it and have to take the word from ukrainian officials on their decepscripti of what s going on, from a military perspective, what do you make of what s going on there, what we know? well actually, what s happening, anderson, is the russians are trying to seal off the river, going up to bag a ....