MARGANETS, Ukraine, Aug 18 — A hard wind blows through the Ukrainian town of Marganets. It is coming across the Dnipro river, from the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant occupied by Russian troops.
“You know, if we die, then it’ll happen within one second, we won’t suffer,” 30-year-old Anastasiia told“It calms me down that my child, and my family will not be in pain,” she said, continuing her daily shopping with morbid nonchalance. The southern town — home to 50,000 before the war — has a bustling, lively centre belying the dark thoughts and swirling rumours about the condition of the plant’s six reactors.
On Friday evening the sound of the air raid siren cut above the blustering wind as the sun began to fall once more. People walk next to a crater left by a shelling by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Marhanets, on August 12, 2022 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — AFP picIn Soviet times Ukraine was the site of history’s worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl — 530 kilometres northwest of here.
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