MOSCOW, August 17 Nuclear security situation at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is deteriorating after today's drone attack, said the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi, his words are quoted on the organization's website.
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"The nuclear safety situation at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant < …> is worsening after a drone strike, which today hit the road along the perimeter of the station site,” the material states.
It is clarified that the Zaporizhia NPP equipment and employees were not injured in the drone attack, but the road between the main gates was damaged stations. The impact site was located near the main ponds — cooling water sprinklers, about a hundred meters from the Dneprovskaya power line.
In the morning, the press service of the Zaporizhia NPP reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces dropped a projectile from a drone on the road that goes along the power units on the outside of the station perimeter. It is used by energy facility employees. As ZNPP Communications Director Evgenia Yashina clarified, from the point of impact to the perimeter of the station there are only ten meters, to the blocks — about 500 meters.
The day before, a representative of the Russian law enforcement agency said that the Ukrainian military plans to attack the Kursk and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants. Thus, Kyiv is going to use charges with warheads containing a radioactive substance, which have already been delivered to the city of Zhovti Vody, Dnepropetrovsk region.
According to military correspondent Marat Khairullin, Ukrainian militants are preparing the explosion of a “dirty bomb” — they intend to strike storage sites for spent nuclear fuel.
Today the Ministry of Defense warned that if Ukraine attempts to strike the Kursk nuclear power plant, Russia will immediately take tough military and military-technical measures in response.