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Russian forces seized the plant soon after Moscow launched its campaign in Ukraine on February 24.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged vigilance ahead of Wednesday's celebrations of 31 years of Ukraine's independence from Soviet rule, as shells rained down near Europe's biggest nuclear plant and Russian forces struck in the south and east.

State nuclear agency Energoatom said the strike on a residential building in Voznesensk was an act of "Russian nuclear terrorism."

Satellite pictures released on Thursday showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new long-range strike capability with potential to change the course of the war.

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for military activity around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex to end as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for a renewed shelling ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the situation.

Zaporizhia NPP is currently connected to the energy system of Ukraine by one operating transmission line, and if it is damaged by Russian invaders, the plant will switch to blackout mode, President of Energoatom Petro Kotin said on the air of the national telethon on Monday.

Russia says Ukraine is the one attacking the plant, but Ukraines Western allies say that Russia is using the plant as a shield.

The Russian military occupied all the basements at Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Enerhodar, Zaporizhia region, to hide from shelling, Energoatom has said on the Telegram channel on Saturday.

Energoatom and American Westinghouse are launching an internship program for Ukrainian nuclear scientists in the United States, within which more than 60 specialists and graduates of nuclear specialties will study AP1000® technology.

Since the seizure of Zaporizhia NPP on March 4, the Russian occupiers have abducted up to 100 employees of the NPP, Energoatom President Petro Kotin on the air of Suspilne on Monday.