MOSCOW, Aug 6The Russian Ministry of Defense, in accordance with an international convention adopted by a resolution of the UN General Assembly, regards the shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP by Kyiv as an act of nuclear terrorism, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. He recalled that on August 5, Ukrainian nationalists launched an artillery strike on the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP, damaging two high-voltage power lines and a water pipeline. More than 10 thousand inhabitants of the Zaporozhye region were left without electricity and water. Thanks to the competent and effective actions of the units of the Russian Armed Forces to cover the nuclear power facility, the critical infrastructure of the nuclear power plant was not damaged.The head of the IAEA is concerned about the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya NPP by the Armed Forces of Ukraine»In accordance with the international convention adopted by the resolution of the UN General Assembly of April 13, 2005, we regard these criminal actions of the Ukrainian authorities as nuclear terrorism,» Mizintsev said at a briefing. «In the event of an accident at Zaporizhzhya A global man-made disaster will occur at the nuclear power plant, which in terms of the scale of radioactive contamination will significantly exceed the consequences of the accidents at nuclear power plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima,» Mizintsev said. population of Kyiv, Zaporizhia, Kharkov, Poltava, Kherson, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kirovograd, Vinnitsa regions, Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, border regions of Russia and Belarus, as well as Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania. «The situation can be seriously aggravated by adverse weather conditions and hit into the zone of possible infection iya Yuzhno-Ukrainian nuclear power plant (capacity 3 thousand MW) and storage of nuclear fuel at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as well as water arteries. The Black Sea and the Bosphorus Strait will become unsuitable for navigation for a long time. The coasts of Turkey, Georgia, Abkhazia, Bulgaria and Romania will be contaminated with high levels of radiation,» the general added. He also called on the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other international organizations to condemn the criminal actions of the Kyiv authorities and take urgent measures to prevent provocations at radiation-hazardous facilities in Ukraine.
Kosachev called the attack on the Zaporozhye NPP an act of terrorism
