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Kyiv — Ukraine Sunday accusing Russia of again shelling Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhia, and calling for new international sanctions against Moscow for "nuclear terrorism." Russian forces said fresh artillery fire on Saturday night damaged three radiation sensors at the facility and a worker was injured by shrapnel.
"Russian nuclear terrorism needs a stronger response from the international community. Sanctions on the Russian nuclear industry and nuclear fuel," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Twitter. wrote.
Factories in Russian-held territory were also hit by shelling on Friday. Moscow blames the Ukrainian military for the strike.
Ukrainian nuclear power company Energoatom said the latest Russian rocket strike hit the plant's dry storage facility, where 174 containers of spent nuclear fuel were stored outdoors.
"As a result, timely detection and response in the event of deterioration of the radiological situation or leakage of radiation from spent nuclear fuel containers is still not possible," said the report.
In a statement quoted by the Interfax news agency, the Russian-installed regime in the occupied Enerhodar, where factory workers live, said Ukraine had launched multiple rocket-launching systems in her 220 mm Uragan. said to have attacked using
"The area adjacent to the administration building and storage facility was damaged," the report said.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Artillery fire demonstrated the danger of a nuclear disaster. These shells struck high-voltage power lines, prompting plant operators to disconnect the reactor, even though no radioactive leak was detected.
The Zaporizhia factory, in the early stages of the war, was occupied by Russian forces in early March, but is still run by Ukrainian engineers. (Reporting by Natalia Ginette; Writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Hugh Lawson, Frances Kelly, Andrew Cawthorne)
