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[France 24](https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220903-live-turkey-can-mediate-russia-ukraine-nuclear-plant-standoff-erdogan-says)
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1:21pm: Russia says it foiled Ukrainian attempt to seize nuclear plant on Friday
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> **Ukrainian forces attempted to capture the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in an attack on the facility on Friday night,** Russia’s defence ministry said in its daily briefing on Saturday.
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> The ministry said a Ukrainian naval force o**f more than 250 troops attempted to land on the coast of a lake near the Zaporizhzhia plant in southern Ukraine at around 11 pm local time (2000 GMT) on Friday.**
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> ***“Despite the presence of representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the Kyiv regime once again attempted to seize the plant,”*** the defence ministry said.
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> **Russia said its forces foiled the attack with strikes from military helicopters and fighter jets, destroying 20 Ukrainian vessels and causing others to scatter and call off the attack.**

[Ukraine’s nuclear plant goes offline amid fighting](https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-moscow-3c19519a697dff4d3c61fef97768fa9c)
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> **Late on Friday evening, the Russian-backed authorities reported that the plant had been under fire for about two hour**s, blaming Ukrainian forces in the latest of a series of similar claims.
> 
> **As of Saturday morning, neither the Ukrainian government nor the country’s nuclear energy operator, Enerhoatom, had commented on these allegations.**

**As a result of the attack and fending off of attack..**

> **Ukraine’s and Europe’s largest nuclear plant was once again knocked offline in the early hours of Saturday** amid sustained shelling that destroyed a key power line and penetrated deep into the plant’s premises, local Russian-backed authorities said.
> 
> **“The Dneprovskaya power line has been hit. The nuclear power plant has switched to servicing its own needs,”** Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Kremlin-appointed regional administration, wrote on Telegram, adding that a shell had struck an area between two reactors. His claims could not be immediately verified.

**Ukraine is engaging in highly questionable and potentially extremely catastrophic actions.**