al jazeera john hall joins us now live from levine, near the border with poland. jonah, so russian troops on now in control of that nuclear plant, what can you tell us? so they say, and that isn't being contested by the ukrainian side. so we assume that is the case . the russian ministry of defense has come out and said, look, these were attacks by saboteurs essentially trying to stage a ukrainian provocation by hitting the site. and that the russian forces were stepping in to defend its president zelinski by contrast, calling it nuclear terrorism. in the middle of all of this, frankly not concerned with the whys and wherefores of what happened is the international atomic energy agency in vienna consent, principally with the safety of this site. and not just any old nuclear site. this the biggest in europe. it contains 6 of the 15 nuclear reactors present it present in ukraine refill. marianna grossey, the head of the i. e, held a press conference just a short while ago in the last half hour. this was his update that there was no release of radioactive material as

well, let's head west now and speak to al jazeera john hall, who is in the city of li. they've an increase in fighting jonah and increased intentions, but the 2 sides have met again for talks to day. any progress inmate well, i think we should be careful. so 1st of all, about assuming that these talks have anything to do with ending the war. this is the 4th round of talks in this sort of format format. that's the sort of level we're talking about ministers, deputy ministers, members of parliament and so on. and in the previous rounds, they've been focusing on humanitarian development corridors, safe avenue of escape, humanitarian aid and so on. and agreements reached in the past have very rapidly fallen apart. now, 2 things here. first of all, you know, perhaps we can look at developments in mario paul is a sign of progress. simultaneous to these talks going on. some people 160 cars able to leave that city, perhaps a gesture, perhaps not perhaps a party of what is being discussed here. remember, there are hundreds of thousands who need to leave that city. so this is a v

but the war around it rages on lead. harding al jazeera, he's john hall. he's in the v near that border with poland to take us through china . not just that very significant attack, but other developments across the country. yes . well, as, as leah pointed out, there's you said as well the russian saying this was an attempted provocation that these were ukrainian saboteurs trying to trying to create a pretext to sort of full flag operation at the nuclear plant. ukraine, of course, to speech that presidency. lensky says this was nuclear terrorism. a says it could have caused an accident. 6 times larger than that, you know, will nuclear disaster. there was 6 reactors at this plant. only one was involved internal, who doesn't care about the whys and wherefores is the i a, the international atomic energy agency in vienna. they gave a press conference. it's had their raphael, marianna grossey in the last hour or 2 saying there was no release of radioactive materials, reassuring that reactors, the reactors were not affected. all systems monitoring systems includ

andrew simmons, al jazeera levine, and more with john hall. now he's in the v. v as well. jonah, i feel intensity is the word now right across to ukraine. russia just increasing that intensity, whether it be on the ground with area of the time. you know, that continues to be lots of talk, including in western intelligence assessments about they frustration being felt by the russians at the slow pace of their march into ukraine. a combination of heavy ukrainian resistance and sort of equipment failures and tactical decision making by the russians as well. and the result of it is that they are certainly upping the tempo of their attacks and potentially changing their tactics aimed at heavily populated urban centers. but most important, of course, of which use the capital key is we've heard reports of explosions on tuesday morning in and around the city. and as you said, that this enormous convoy to the north, north west, stretching some 40 miles, these of troops, artillery support, and logistics units, readying to move on the capital, making very, very, very slow progress. i

jonah hall al jazeera, who live was john and just mentioned ukraine's president accused nato of giving russia the green light to continue to bombard and kill ukrainians. that's after the airlines refused to establish a no fly zone over ukraine. but russia's president, as warned any attempt to was created no flies on, would be considered nato's entry into the conflict. just must lucian storm and looseness do it now. we are here in the no fly zone must be established over the territory of ukraine. it is impossible to do so over the territory of ukraine itself. it is possible only from the territory of some neighboring country, but any move in this direction will be viewed bath as the participation in the arm conflict will of whichever side whose territory will pull the trigger to our service mammoth. that very 2nd, we will view them as participants of the military conflict. and if not matter what members they are, we would several correspondents across the story had it cast was stunning by in washington dc after ukraine's president repeated his request for a nor flies on when he was addr

al jazeera keith . i've got the latest now from western ukraine with john hall. jonah. so we've talked about the nipple and key of give us a picture across the rest of the country. attacks of continued in major centers across the rest of the country in talking to the east overnight. the institute of physics and technology was narrowly missed by strikes it houses and experimental nuclear reactor fires, described burning very near by in sherony here in the nor critical infrastructure. they're coming under attack as well, of water pipelines that have been hit there and it looks to the northeast of kia and ivana francisco pretty close to where i am here in western ukraine. close to leave f fields military. a fields have been struck by strikes and ongoing on going up by the russians to impede the ability of ukraine's air force and defenses to operate an update for you on civilian evacuations that have been going on for the last 2 days. the government says 100000 people in all were able to leave a number of centers including su me is you cross your t's cross, no p layer in th