![]() By 6:00 pm, the protest included two hundred residents, as well as power plant workers. Orlov told Ukrinform that two people were wounded when Russian soldiers allegedly threw grenades at a crowd of civilians. Protestors again blocked the roads protestors carried Ukrainian flags and used garbage trucks as part of the blockade. In the morning of 2 March, Orlov stated that Russian troops were again approaching the city. In the evening, a protest by local residents blocked Russian forces from entering the city. According to Orlov, the city had difficulties obtaining food. On 1 March, Ukrainian officials stated that Russian forces had surrounded the city, with a Russian convoy heading into Enerhodar around 2:00 pm. Local citizens later barricaded the road to the plant and the entrance to the city, forcing the Russian forces to turn back. ![]() However, the mayor of Enerhodar, Dmytro Orlov, denied that the city and the power plant had been captured. On 28 February, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that they captured the city of Enerhodar and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The area remains under Russian occupation. ![]() Enerhodar is the location of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which generates nearly half of the country's electricity derived from nuclear power and more than a fifth of total electricity generated in Ukraine, as well as the nearby thermal power station.Īfter attacking protesting civilians on March 3, Russian forces engaged Ukrainian forces at the nuclear power plant and took control of it, seizing Enerhodar the same day. The battle of Enerhodar was a military engagement between the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the southern Ukraine offensive of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine over the city of Enerhodar in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, on March 4 2022. ![]() The state of the battle of Enerhodar on 1 March 2022
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