Europe’s largest nuclear power plant raised concerns again after Russia and Ukraine again accused each other of bombing near areas occupied by the Russian army. end of “this madness”.
A reader who for some reason stopped reading about the war in Ukraine in August and is now picking up again is faced with a similar scenario. There were “strong explosions” at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
According to the Russian military, Ukrainian missiles exploded near a power line that feeds the power station, the fourth and fifth power sources and “special building number 2”, i.e. a nuclear fuel storage facility. Kiev “will not stop its provocations with the aim of creating the threat of man-made catastrophe at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant,” the Russian military said. Ukraine’s Energoatom nuclear agency said it was pointing the finger at Russia, which “once again put the whole world at risk”.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), “at least 12 explosions were recorded” on the site of the Zaporizia Nuclear Power Plant, with the IAEA team on site witnessing some of these explosions through the window, the director-general said, Rafael Grossi. Still according to the Argentine leader, none of the damage to the buildings “endangered safety and critical nuclear protection”.
However, this attack proves the urgency to realize his proposal for a safety zone in the immediate vicinity of the factory. “I will not give up until this zone becomes a reality.”
At the beginning of March, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe was taken over by the Russian army, which had parked vehicles, military equipment and ammunition there. Several media reports reported that the Russians fired from the center towards the closest location on the other side of the river, Nikopol. According to Kiev, the occupiers bombed the station itself, destroying power lines and thereby causing the shutdown of reactors and blaming the Ukrainian military. The Russians are making the same accusations against Kiev.
With Kherson’s withdrawal, the Russians began to make it a bombing target, while there are indications that the troops strengthened the defenses of Melitopol, a strategic city in the Zaporizia region, and advanced towards the Donetsk region, where Kherson’s mercenaries Wagner’s group, together with the mobilized, tried to gain ground on various fronts.
Source: DN
