The Russian occupation administration said on Sunday that the Ukrainian military had damaged administrative buildings during an attack on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the target of the fire for which Moscow and Kyiv blame each other.
During the night from Saturday to Sunday, “the Ukrainian army carried out an attack with a cluster bomb fired from an Ouragan multiple rocket launcher,” reported the occupation authorities of the town of Energodar, where the power plant is located in the south. from Ukraine. .
“The shrapnel and rocket motor fell 400 meters from a working reactor,” the source said, quoted by the Russian state news agency TASS, adding that the attack “damaged” administrative buildings and hit “a storage area.” of spent nuclear fuel.
She did not provide any further evidence to substantiate these claims and AFP was unable to confirm these allegations from an independent source.
mutual accusations
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) considered on Saturday “increasingly alarming” the information coming from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe.
Ukrainian authorities on Friday accused Russian forces of carrying out three attacks near a reactor at the Zaporizhia power plant in the south, although Moscow has controlled this territory since the start of the offensive.
The Russian army for its part claimed that the Ukrainian forces were at the origin of these attacks, which caused a fire that was extinguished.
One of the nuclear power plant’s reactors was shut down, the Ukrainian atomic energy company announced on Saturday after the attacks. Kyiv claims that Moscow stores heavy weapons and ammunition on the territory of the power plant.
Source: BFM TV
