Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 9Due to the constant shelling of the Zaporizhzhya NPP by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the station is in danger, and the ongoing Ukrainian attacks can lead to a global man-made disaster, they warn in Russia. energy, and the staff needed to reduce the power of two power units to 500 megawatts, said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov. the fire brigade managed to eliminate the smoke,» he said. The representative of the defense department described the Ukrainian attack as an act of nuclear terrorism aimed at creating a humanitarian catastrophe in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
The head of the IAEA reacted to the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya NPP On the same day, the head of the administration of the Zaporizhzhya region, Evgeny Balitsky, also said that after the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two power units of the ZNPP did not operate at full capacity. He called on the IAEA and UN delegations to come to the station to inspect and record the facts and the direction of the shelling. Before that, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, warned that a potential accident at the ZNPP threatens with unpredictable and unprecedented consequences for the whole world. «In In the event of an accident at the Zaporozhye NPP, a global man-made disaster will occur, which in terms of the scale of radioactive contamination will significantly exceed the consequences of the accidents at the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear power plants,” Mizintsev noted. kilometers. It will include Kyiv, Zaporozhye, Kharkov, Poltava, Kherson, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kirovograd and Vinnitsa regions, the DPR and LPR, the border regions of Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria and Romania.
The United States does not record changes in the radiation background around the Zaporozhye NPPMizintsev allowed the situation to worsen in the event of adverse weather conditions, as well as when it enters the zone of possible contamination of the South Ukrainian NPP, nuclear fuel storage at the Chernobyl NPP and waterways. «The Black Sea and the Bosphorus Strait for a long time will become unsuitable for navigation. The coasts of Turkey, Georgia, Abkhazia, Bulgaria and Romania will be contaminated with high levels of radiation,» the general warned.The UN hopes that the IAEA will be able to send an inspector to the Zaporozhye NPPAct of nuclear terrorismThe Russian Ministry of Defense regards the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya NPP by Kyiv as an act of nuclear terrorism, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. He recalled that the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an artillery strike on the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP, damaging two high-voltage power lines and a hydrogen pipeline . More than 10,000 residents of the Zaporozhye region were left without electricity and water. The critical infrastructure of the nuclear power plant was not damaged thanks to the competent and effective actions of the Russian Armed Forces units to cover up the nuclear power facility. Mizintsev spoke out. The colonel-general called on the UN, the IAEA 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. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation in Ukraine. According to President Vladimir Putin, the ultimate goal is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee the security of Russia itself. Allied forces have already completely liberated the Lugansk People's Republic and a significant part of Donetsk, including Volnovakha, Mariupol and Svyatogorsk. where Ukraine shells the nuclear power plant
