Russia attacks Kiev again, Zelensky warns of nuclear plant

“Another enemy attack on Kiev”, wrote Serhiy Popko, head of Kiev's military administration, on the telegram platform. “Currently no information for potential casualties or damage”.

Air strike sirens were heard in the Ukrainian capital since about 2am, Reuters news agency reported. It was later reported that a civilian was injured by the fall of a fears in Kiev.

Ukraine's air defence forces said on July 2nd that eight fears and three Calibr type navigation missiles had been launched overnight in Ukraine.

“All aircraft targets... destroyed”, the military wrote on the telegram.

In the November 2nd report, Ukraine's General Staff reported 46 battles between Ukrainian and Russian forces over the past 24 hours.

Radio Free Europe has failed to confirm the parties' claims of developments in the battlefield in areas of heavy fighting.

The fiercest fights were reported to take place again in the area of Lyman, Bahmut and Marjinka, in the Donjeck region.

During a media conference on July 1st with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Ukrainian President Zelensky said there was a serious risk “ “that Russia was prepared to trigger a local “ ” explosion at the Zaporizja nuclear power plant.

Zelensky met with security and nuclear energy officials on 1 July at the Rivne nuclear power plant to discuss “key problems”, he said in his weekly speech.

The Ukrainian Army had earlier claimed that Russia had mined the Zaporigja plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.

On June 30th, Enerhoattom, Ukraine's nuclear authority, completed two days of training in which the effects of an explosion was simulated at the plant, which has been controlled by Russian forces since the beginning of the war in Ukraine last year. / REL/