Ukraine on Wednesday asked residents of Russian-occupied areas around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to evacuate the area for their own safety, Reuters reports.

Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of bombing Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, threatening a nuclear disaster.

• “I appeal to the residents of the areas adjacent to the Zaporizhzhya NPP… evacuate! Find a way to the controlled (Ukrainian) territory,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in Telegram.

The exiled Ukrainian mayor of Energodar, the main city that serves the station, said in a separate Telegram post that it was under fire from Russian forces and that the city had been cut off.

Russia has resumed bombing near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, a day after the UN called for a demilitarized zone around the plant, The Guardian reports.

A local official told the Associated Press on Wednesday that the Russians fired rockets and heavy artillery at the city of Nikopol, on the opposite bank of the Dnieper from Zaporizhzhia.

The information has not been independently verified.

This was announced by the governor of the region Valentyn Reznichenko.

• “There are fires, power outages and other things [centrală] which obliges us to prepare the local population for the consequences of nuclear danger.
• In recent days, residents have been given iodine tablets to protect them from radiation leaks.”