Russian shelling causes Europe’s largest nuclear power station to catch fire

The fighting at Enerhodar, a city on the Dnieper River, came as another round of talks between the two sides yielded a tentative agreement to set up safe corridors inside Ukraine to evacuate citizens and deliver humanitarian aid

People leaving their relatives press their palms against a window of a Lviv bound train, on the platform in Kyiv, Ukraine (Vadim Ghirda/AP)

Russian forces are shelling Europe’s largest nuclear plant in the battle for control of a crucial energy-producing city – and the power station is on fire.

Plant spokesman Andriy Tuz told Ukrainian television that shells were falling directly on the Zaporizhzhia plant and had set fire to one of the facility’s six reactors. That reactor is under renovation and not operating, but there is nuclear fuel inside, he said.