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Where you can hear russian fire jets skreeching overhead followed by enormous blasts and the sense is -- >> i got to say, clarissa. >> gradually getting closer and closer. >> clarissa, were showing the videos now the roeuters images, drone images of that apartment block. i mean that is, that is a residential building completely destroyed. >> reporter: it is, and, you know, the russian line has always been this is a sort of restrained military operation, very targeted, not maximalist or expansion...

Bunch of ukrainian forces in what they call a giant encirclement. this is a sort of classic maneuver, the zaporizhzhia is right in the way but the zaporizhzhia power plant is a really key strategic asset now providing 25% of the power for ukraine. take that offline, the grid is at least temporarily destabilized. youre cutting the ability of ukrainians to be able to handle communications to a lot of other things. it could be cold and dark in some places in ukraine so yeah, thats a military object...

Attacks. is a fire at a nuclear power plant, i mean, obviously, it doesnt sound good, but are there systems within a plant to automatically fight a fire? >> well, yes, but not all fires. and not all fires at a power plant have catastrophic consequences. we can remember what happened at fukushima. the issues really go to whether the fire may be in the cooling pits, because there, you have material that is particularly radioactive, or if ultimately, a fire could cause a meltdown of the reactor and...

Lviv. i want to go to nuclear policy expert, from bellford center, can you give us a sense of how concerned should everyone be about the situation at this very large nuclear power plant? >> the facts are unfolding as we, you know, sit here, but i would say in general, very concerned. we should remember, chernobyl in 86 was a meltdown that spewed radioactive material all over western europe. and so its conceivable that one could have another version of that. i hope not, i pray not, but things cou...

Taking a look at closed circuit tv image from ukraines largest nuclear plant, a fire breaking out there after a russian assault and now according to local mayor, russian shelling appears to be preventing firefighters from battling the blaze, again, thats from a local mayor, now we hear from retired four star army general westley clark, i wonder about your reaction to this around the nuclear power plant, obviously a lot we do not know about it and have to take the word from ukrainian officials on...

You could have a great release of radioactivity. so if rockets were targeting a nuclear reactor, then i think they could quite successfully, you know, create a huge fire that could conceivably produce a large release. but i have not seen any evidence of attacks that produce the fire. maybe thats what happened, but again, its, i think, a little hard to tell at this point. >> yeah, it would be, obviously, ideal for ukrainian authorities who apparently are still in control of this plant or still on...

Of this fire. we dont know if it is in any place inside, anywhere that is potentially could lead to any kind of a release so i dont want to be overstating this, obviously a very alarming statement from ukrainian official, a tweet that went out, but again, there is an on going war. there is, if you look at it, theres a reason why they would want to put out a statement that is alarming and attention getting and may well be accurate but we want to be careful about what we are saying about this and ...

Serious this may be? >> well, good question. i wish i had a good answer. i would say that theres so many uncertaintied uncertainties surrounding it but if i were doing my check list, first, where is the fire? and secondly, who is in control of the powerplant? it was reported that russians had taken control because of the concern about these risks, what it is theyre fighting that gave rise to the fire or, you know, how did this come about? and then thirdly, what about the people who are trying to...

Several days from russian attacks and now, it is said to be on fire. it is burning, firefighters reportedly cannot battle the blaze. these are live images youre seeing because of the continued shooting. ukraines foreign minister tweeting a moment ago, tweeting directly from ukraines foreign minister. russian army firing from all sides upon zaporizhzhia, npp largest nuclear power plant in europe. if it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than chernobyl. russians must immediately cease the fire, ...

Fire and gun fire at ukraines largest nuclear plant, mo moments ago the international atomic energy tweeting iaea is aware of reports of shelling at zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in contact with authorities about the situation. with kaitlan collins, you heard from the white house about this fire at the nuclear plant, what are they saying? >> reporter: anderson, they dont seem to know much more than we do, monitoring this trying to find out exactly what happened here, you see from the footage...