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"I can show the examples of when we came under shelling in it and it stood strong, sustaining 120 mortars.

"This vehicle is very strong, it survives anti-tank mines, keeps the personnel safe, survives rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank guided missiles," he said. He spoke to us in front of the armored vehicle he'd driven in the battle, which he credited with saving the lives of himself and his fellow soldiers on multiple occasions.

Heart-wrenching decisions for Ukrainian civilians as Russia's war closes in.

At 55, he said he'd never expected to become a soldier before Russia invaded his country, and he admitted the battle was "really hard." In the battered town of Chasiv Yar, just a few miles west of Bakhmut in Ukrainian-held territory, CBS News met Baida, a soldier who had just returned from the front line. Moscow has thrown wave after wave of fighters, many of them from the Wagner Group, at the battle for Bakhmut, desperate to claim the entire town in what would be its first major territorial gain in over half a year. Russian mercenaries on the “lies” that lured them to Ukraine 03:01 In the shell-shocked central city of Dnipro, residents' fears were more immediate after the overnight missile attacks, and some struggled to comprehend why their city was a target for Vladimir Putin's assault. Vladyslav Musiienko/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC "UA:PBC"/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Police inspect damage from a Russian missile attack in a residential district of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2023. In January the IAEA announced plans to establish a "continuous presence" at all Ukrainian nuclear power plants "to help prevent a nuclear accident," but the continued fighting around Zaporizhzhia has made it impossible at that facility. What are we doing? How can we sit here in this room this morning and allow this to happen? This cannot go on. Let me remind you, this is the largest nuclear power station in Europe. "This is the sixth time - let me say it again - sixth time, that ZNPP has lost all off-site power and has had to operate in this emergency mode. And if we allow this to continue time after time then one day our luck will run out," Grossi told the agency's Board of Governors in Austria, according to a statement.

Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, issued a fresh appeal for a demilitarized safe-zone around the Russian-held plant, saying he was "astonished" by the fact that such a sensitive facility was still being put at risk by the war.

If it is impossible to renew the external power supply of the station during this time, an accident with radiation consequences for the whole world may occur," Energoatom warned Thursday when the supply line was severed. Ukraine's nuclear power operator Energoatom said the "last power line between the occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP and the Ukrainian power system was cut off as a result of rocket attacks." The company said it was the sixth time the sprawling facility had been cut off from the nation's electricity grid since Russian troops captured it last year. A view of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant as the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, from Nikopol, Ukraine, March 3, 2023. A barrage of missiles and explosive drones rained down in a blistering assault that struck cities from the capital Kyiv to the vital southern port of Odesa, and all the way to the far-western city of Lviv.Īt least nine people were killed, according to Ukrainian officials, and millions more were plunged into the cold and dark as the attacks hit power infrastructure - including a strike that Ukrainian officials said briefly cut the vital electricity supply yet again to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe's largest atomic energy facility. Dnipro, Ukraine - Russia hit Ukraine on Thursday with its most punishing attacks in nearly a month.