Enerhodar
Enerhodar (), (, ) is a city and municipality in the north-western part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Ukraine. It is on the left bank of the Dnieper river, on the opposite side of the Kakhovka Reservoir from Nikopol and Chervonohryhorivka. It has a population of The city was founded on June 12, 1970, for building and serving the Zaporizhzhia thermal power station, owned by Ukraine power company DTEK. Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe, was then built there in the 1980s. The city's major employers are the two power stations. History. Russo-Ukrainian War. On  28 February 2022, Russia claimed to have captured the city as well as the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The mayor of Enerhodar, Dmytro Orlov, later denied this claim. Civilians built a large barricade consisting of sandbags and vehicles on the road to the power plant in attempt to hinder Russian troop advancement. The Ukrainian military administration for the southeast confirmed on 7 March that Enerhodar had been occupied by Russian forces.