A rain of projectiles has hit different points of the facilities, until a fire has been declared
The attacks of the Russian troops do not stop. The President Vladimir Putin He has already warned that he does not intend to stop the offensive and in the last few hours it has been the turn of one of the largest nuclear power plants in Europe, the central Zaporizhia, in the southeast of the country. In the first images who have come from the bombardment, you can see the rain of projectiles that falls on the facilities, until one of them hits a building and it catches fire.
the minister of Ukraine energyHerman Galuschenko, has warned that the world is on the verge of the biggest nuclear catastrophe in history of peaceful use of atomic energy after the attack. The spokesman for the attacked nuclear power plant, one of the 15 reactors in the country, has confirmed that the Russian bombing of the area would have set fire to the plant and there would be danger of a nuclear threat. “There is a real threat of nuclear danger in the Europe’s largest nuclear power plant“, he highlighted.
“It’s a war of annihilation, of annihilation of humanity and our planet. The nuclear safety the enemy does not care,” the minister stressed. He added that Ukraine had been warning the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for days of the danger posed by the war launched by Russia against Ukraine.
Radioactivity monitoring
The fire, which covered a area of 2,000 square meters, was turned off at 06:20 a.m. (04:20 GMT), the DSNS specified on its Facebook page. The damaged property is located outside the plant, where, according to the Ukrainian authorities, the levels of radioactivity are within normal ranges.
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On March 1, the International Energy Agency (IAEA) lost contact with the radiological monitoring stations located in the city, which is the largest nuclear site in Ukraine. There they house six of their 15 reactors. Ukrainian specialists are trying to determine the cause of the loss of data transfer from the Zaporizhia NPP and to restore it. In addition, the IAEA has approved a resolution in which sentence the seizure of several Ukrainian nuclear power plants by Russian forces.