Moscow and Kyiv filed new accusations Saturday over the bombings around the Ukrainian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and the international community worried that conflicts in the region could spell disaster.
Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, has been controlled by Russian forces since the beginning of March. Ukrainian authorities continue to operate the plant, and in recent weeks the two sides have exchanged bombing accusations near the plant.
Energoatom, Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear company, said Russian troops had again bombed the floor of the power plant complex in the past 24 hours.
“The damage is currently being assessed,” Energoatom said in a statement on Telegram.
Russia’s defense ministry accused Ukrainian forces of carrying out three bomb attacks at the facility complex in the past 24 hours.
Reuters was unable to confirm the report on the battlefield.
“A total of 17 bombs were detonated, and four of them hit the roof of Special Building No. 1, where 168 sets of US WestingHouse nuclear fuel are stored,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. Said.
The ministry said 10 bombs exploded near a dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, and three more bombs near a building containing fresh nuclear fuel. The dossier said the radiation situation at the facility remained normal.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that the situation in Zaporizhzhia was “very risky” after two of its six reactors were reconnected to the grid following the bombings that disconnected the nuclear power plant for the first time in history.
Energoatom said late Friday that the plant’s two working reactors have reconnected to the grid and are providing electricity again after they were disconnected on Thursday.
source: Noticias
