A Russian missile struck a residential area of a southern Ukrainian city not far from a nuclear power plant on Saturday, injuring 12 civilians and raising fears of a nuclear accident during Ukraine’s war, Ukrainian officials said.
According to foreign media, Vitaliy Kim, the governor of the Mykolaiv region, said four children were among those injured in an attack that damaged several private homes and a five-story apartment building in Voznesensk.
The city is about 30 kilometers (19 mi) from the Pivdennoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant (PNPP), the second largest in Ukraine.
The general prosecutor’s office in the Mykolaiv region, updating the previous figure, said 12 civilians were injured.
State-run Energoatom, which manages all four of Ukraine’s nuclear power generators, described the Voznesensk attack as “another act of Russian nuclear terrorism”.
Air raid alarms were heard several times in the Mykolaiv region on Saturday.
