Energoatom, Ukraine’s nuclear agency, said a Russian Shahed-136 “kamikaze drone” flew overnight from Sunday to Monday over a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine near the city of Mykolaiv.
“This is a totally unacceptable breach of nuclear and radiological safety,” Energoatom said on its website Monday.
“We again call for preventing nuclear facilities from being exposed to the risk of attack by the Russian military and posing a threat to the nuclear security of Ukraine and the world,” the Ukrainian Nuclear Safety Agency said in a press release.
The Ukrainian authorities had also stated that the anti-aircraft systems had destroyed 15 of the 20 drone directed against Kyiv This monday.
#WarInUkraine: That #Russia Attacks on “critical infrastructure”. #Kiev and surroundings with Iranian drones #Shahed https://t.co/hsD6XY3tyO
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However, Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of the Ukrainian capital, specified this “critical infrastructure had been damaged.
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The Russian army has occupied since the early hours of the morninginvasion of Ukraine another Ukrainian nuclear power plant operated by Zaporizhiathe largest in Europe.
Discussions are under way to set up a protection zone for the plant. Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of bombing the site, raising the specter of a nuclear catastrophe.