(CNN) Ukrainian officials and international experts have been warning for months of the risk that fighting poses to a sprawling nuclear power plant on the banks of Dnipro River in southern Ukraine. Earlier this week, the global nuclear watchdog said the situation was becoming increasingly perilous. Then, on Friday, explosions rang out at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex, the biggest of its kind in Europe, reigniting fears of a potential disaster. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Moscow for the attack, calling the strikes a "brazen crime" and an "act of terror." "Today, the occupiers created another extremely risky situation for everyone in Europe," he said in his nightly address on Friday.

Source: CNN August 06, 2022 22:30 UTC