Shelling resumed near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, with the warring sides trading blame again on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog agency pressed for a safe zone

there to prevent a catastrophe. Russian forces fired rockets and heavy artillery on the city of Nikopol, on the opposite bank of the Dnieper River from Europe’s largest nuclear plant,

regional Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko said. “There are fires, blackouts and other things at the (plant) that force us to prepare the local population for the consequences of the nuclear

danger,” Reznichenko said. Officials in recent days have distributed iodine pills to residents to help protect them in the event of a radiation leak. READ THIS STORY FOR FREE To continue