Russian forces have entered Slavutych, a city of about 25,000 people that serves as a housing community for workers from the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant, local officials said Saturday.
Gunfire is heard and gas is seen in videos posted March 26, in Slavutych, where protesters gathered in the town square.
MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — In a video address posted on Facebook late Saturday, the mayor, Yurii Fomichev, said that “Slavutych from today is under occupation.” He added that three days ago, the city received an ultimatum from Russia to surrender without a fight: “We strongly defended our city.”President Volodymyr Zelensky, in his own late-night address on Telegram, confirmed “Russian invaders” had entered the city.
“Russians opened fire in the air. Noise grenades are thrown at the crowd,” the governor of the Kyiv region, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, wrote in a post on his Telegram channel Saturday. “Residents do not disperse. On the contrary, they are increasing.”said the mayor had been captured by Russian troops but was released following the demonstrations, with Russian troops agreeing to leave the city if people handed over their weapons to the mayor.
The Ukrainian Pravda news outlet quoted the mayor as saying Sunday that they had partially succeeded at replacing the shift workers at the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
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