Firefighters have successfully extinguished the fire at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is the largest in Europe.

The news is reported by Ukraine's emergency services early Friday morning, according to French news agency AFP.

A section of the site erupted in flames during the night following attacks from Russian forces. Around 3 a.m. CET, firefighters succeeded in containing the fire.

According to Ukrainian authorities, no changes in radiation levels were detected in the area.

For some time, firefighters were barred from accessing the power plant, which was still taking fire from Russian forces at the time.

At around 02:25 a.m. CET, Belarussian opposition media Next reported on Twitter that firefighters had gained entry.

An unnamed regional authority now reports that Russian military has taken control of the nuclear power plant.

The news comes less than two hours after the firefighters successfully extinguished the fire.

Fire broke out in adjacent building

According to state emergency services in Ukraine, the blaze hadn't broken out at the plant itself, but in an adjacent building.

The Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada, reported on messaging service Telegram that the fire started after heavy shelling from Russian forces.

Verkhovna Rada shared a post from a Ukrainian media outlet, which had shared surveillance footage capturing the fire at the power plant.

The company behind the power plant also started livestreaming a surveillance video from the plant on YouTube.

Reports emerged of gunfire near the nuclear power plant gunfire in the city of Enerhodar Thursday from an advisor in the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

According to the advisor, the invasion forces aimed to assume control of the power plant.

Russia has already taken the Chernobyl disaster area, which is located approximately 100 km north of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

Several Ukrainian cities have been targets of bombing raids and air strikes since Putin gave the order for Russian to attack on Thursday last week.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant started generating power in 1984, accounting for approximately 20 percent of Ukraine's annual total production and 47 percent of all power generated at nuclear power plants in Ukraine, writes the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine.

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