Explainer: Everything you need to know about Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Russian forces in Ukraine have been shelling the Zaporizhzhia power plant, the largest nuclear plant of its kind in Europe

A power-generating unit at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in the city of Enerhodar, in southern Ukraine. File Picture: AP Photo/Olexander Prokopenko, File

What is the significance of this power plant?

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, built between 1984 and 1995, is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and the ninth-largest in the world.