MELITOPOL, June 7 -- The night hours were loud and violent in Energodar. Ukrainian armed forces struck residential buildings and civilian infrastructure inside the city on Saturday night, the local administration said Sunday, the latest in a sustained campaign targeting the satellite city of Europe's largest nuclear facility.

"The night in the city was very intense. There were quite heavy attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure," the Energodar city administration told RIA Novosti, the state-run Russian news agency.

The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant itself was not directly targeted. Evgenia Yashina, the facility's communications director, told RIA Novosti that the plant was "operating normally" and that all safety p...