Ukraine war: Fire at Europe's largest nuclear power plant put out after Russian attack

Russian forces shelled Europe’s largest nuclear plant early Friday in the battle for control of a crucial energy-producing city, and the power station was on fire.

Ukrainian officials that the fire has now been put out.

Plant officials told Ukrainian television that shells were falling directly on the Zaporizhzhia plant and had set fire to one of the facility’s six reactors. That reactor is under renovation and not operating, but there is nuclear fuel inside, officials said.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Twitter that it's been informed by Ukraine's nuclear regulator that “there has been no change reported in radiation levels” at a nuclear power station shelled by Russian troops.

The plant provides about 25% of Ukraine’s power generation.

The Ukrainian government has urged the Russian troops to stop attacking the nuclear power plant. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted that "If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chernobyl!".

The fighting at Enerhodar, which is a city on the Dnieper River, came as another round of talks between the two sides yielded a tentative agreement to set up safe corridors inside Ukraine to evacuate citizens and deliver humanitarian aid.