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>> senator eland representative. thank you. our thoughts are with your communities and were wishing you the happiest of thanksgivings. thank you. >> thank you. we are following new developments out of ukraine. explosions are being heard around the city of zaporizhzhia in central ukraine. a cnn team there heard at least three explosions and some locals are reporting five in outskirts of the city. lets get right back to our senior international correspondent who is in zap zaporizhzhia. what have...

To mention one area of concern over the last few days with shelling in this operation power plant. what is the latest on that? >> well, as you know john, it has been a problem since march since the russians captured that nuclear power station. they have ukrainian staff and russian eu nuclear scientists working their. the problem is that it is also a fire base used for the russians, so over the weekend the international atomic energy authority, which has inspectors, has observers rather, in that ...

Its got ukrainian staff and russian nuclear scientists also working there. but the problem is that it is also a fire base used by the russians. over the weekend, the international atomic energy agency, which has observers in that plant precisely to keep an eye out for this eventuality, said there is heavy shelling indeed close to the plant, hitting a number of elements of the plant itself, not crucially the nuclear reactors. there are six there. its the biggest in europe. but causing great const...

Mitigate what they all believe to be a nuclear catastrophe if it continues to be a front line location, which it is. there is no sign at all of demilitarization by the russians. they are using it as a fire base and the ukrainians committed a few days ago they used precision weapons against russian targets not far from the power plant. ukrainians are talking about shutting it down completely and the action of last resort. a station that provides a fifth of ukraines electrical power. kate? >> abso...

We know theyre also using as a fire base. the russians, of course, flatly deny this. he said hes seen damage to the plant there with his own eyes. he didnt point fingers as to who said was responsible for that. he also said hes been able to speak to ukrainian and russian experts at the power station. hes got to report back to volodymyr zelenskyy, the ukrainian president, and go back to his headquarters to prepare his report. it will be very interesting to see what he says because hes in this del...

Emergency systems to kick in, diesel generators that run electricity to keep the cooling system going. clearly very vulnerable and not long-term. at the same time, the transmission of electricity into the ukrainian grid was severed. at its height, that is a power station that produces one fifth of ukraines electricity. and there was concern that the russians were going to try and steal it. that itself is fraught with technical difficulties that can could threaten the longevity of the nuclear pow...

Capture this nuclear power station. deep concerns there that some kind of cat lichl could be unleashed. those concerns have resurfaced very significantly in the last few weeks because the russians have now been using it or areas very close to it as a fire base to fire rockets against ukrainian positions. now, the russians deny this. that denial is a lie. we have been able to see with our own eyes the effects of that rocket attacks on villages just across the d knee proriver. on top of that we ha...

This agreement? >> reporter: well, boris, i think first of all i dont think its necessarily an agreement. thats how its slightly been portrayed following the conversation between president emmanuel macron and president vladimir putin last night. yesterday afternoon. but the reality is that this is an offer thats essentially been on the table for a while from the russians. the problem is that this is a front line location and international community is saying they want to see it demilitarized. it...

>> yes. we have been able to confirm that directly. seen with our own eyes the results of rocket strikes very clearly identify bli you can trace back the trajectory of rockets on this -- on the government-held side of the dnipro river in villages close to the nuclear power station have been hit by rockets that have been fired from that location or in or near that location. a second level we know the russians are in military occupation. they dont deny it. indeed, yesterday they said they were goi...

International community are all reacting in horror at the mere thought that this could be at the center of fighting. ukraine blames russia for using the nuclear plant as a fire base. and insists that its not able to shoot back for risk of blowing up the nuclear facility. the russian occupiers shoot all the time to provoke the armed forces of ukraine and o spread manic among the people. we understand that the power plant may explode because of their actions. i just dont understand, maybe they jus...