A new attack against the nuclear power plant of Zaporizhia he was, as usual, denounced by both the Russians and the Ukrainians disclaimer of responsibility between the two countries. According to the Russian news agency Tass, Ukrainian forces fired today twice against the power plant, which has been under Russian occupation ever since march, but where Ukrainian technicians continue to work who, according to Kyiv, are being harassed by the Russian occupiers. And from the Ukrainian nuclear agency energy atomafter the first assurances, the news comes that the bombings did corrupted “multiple radiation detection sensors”. The new raids, they explain, hit an area near one of the six reactors at the Russian-controlled plant and there was “widespread smoke with several damaged radiation sensors.”
Initially, the agency made accusations against the Russian army. five shots They felt, they wrote on Telegram, “in the area of the commander’s office centralnear the area of welding and the deposit of radioactive sources. Grass caught fire in a small area but no one was hurt”. After that, continue the shared post in the company’s messaging app, five more shots have reached “the territory of the Department of firefighters, not far from the nuclear power plant. To protect the occupational safety the headquarters, the buses with the staff of change incoming ones were sent back energodar. Until you do will normalize situation, the personnel present in the plant remain on duty”.
In the meantime, it won’t let up exchange of allegations between Moscow and Kyiv on the responsibilities for the raid on the plant. “The thermal power plant and the water tanks of the reactor cooling system of the Zaporizhia power plant were partially damaged by the Ukrainian raids,” Russian military sources told Tass. They then add: “The nuclear power plant’s critical infrastructure was not damaged thanks to the defenses implemented by the Russian armed forces.” The Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenziait was even harder for the army of Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “Ukraine’s criminal actions against Zaporizhia are bringing the world to the brink of a comparable nuclear catastrophe Chernobyl. We have repeatedly warned our Western colleagues that if they fail to bring the government in Kyiv to their senses, they will resort to more heinous and senseless acts that will resonate well beyond Ukraine’s borders. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happening now.”
For its part, Kyiv responded verbally through the president himself, who called on the international community to “react immediately.” Expulsion of the Russian “occupiers”: “The whole world must react immediately to expel the occupiers from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant – he said – only the complete withdrawal of the Russians would guarantee the nuclear safety of all of Europe”.
Meanwhile the Great Britain She said she was ready to send to Ukraine other multi-launch missile systems and precision-guided missiles capable of hitting targets beyond 80 kilometers and have already proved to be fundamental weapons in the ongoing conflict. This was announced by the British Defense Secretary. Ben Wallacetaking place in Copenhagen at the Allied Donor Conference Kyiv.