At least three people have been killed and 23 others have been injured by Russian shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukrainian authorities have announced.

According to the governor of Dnirpterovsk, Valentyn Reznichenko, the Russians fired more than 120 missiles from the Grad missile system south of the town of Nikopol.

Several buildings and facilities near the industrial center have been destroyed, Telegrafi reports.

"They are constantly informing the world about the blackmail that the Russians are doing with the nuclear power plant, about the shelling and the mines placed in Zaporizhzhia," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

"Russia does not care about our concerns.

Chernobyl nuclear disaster in a reactor;

in Zaporizhzhia it can happen in the sixth reactor," added Zelensky.

These comments come as Russia and Ukraine are accusing each other of a series of shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

This plant is controlled by the Russians who, after starting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, taught Zaporizhzhia and since then have been forcibly keeping Ukrainian employees inside the plant.

/Telegraph/