UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be controlled by Russia as an international inspector on Monday The site added that "all attacks on nuclear power plants are suicides."
KYIV — nuclear accidenton Monday after a bombardment attack on Russian-controlled forces } The outlook sounded an international alarm. Plantin Ukraine. This is, which is almost twice the size of Chernobyl.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told international inspectors a vast nuclear facility as the risk of disaster increased after the plant was damaged by a weekend strike but continued to operate. Asked to allow access to.
"Any attack on a nuclear power plant is a suicide act," he said Monday in Tokyo after attending a ceremony in Hiroshima to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.
Russia and Ukraine have blamed Europe for being responsible for the largest plant attacks.
Ukraine was in the Soviet era On Friday and Saturday when he said the sitewas bombarded by Russiaand demanded demilitarized zone.
According to Energoatom, a Ukrainian state-owned energy company, the Russian attack damaged several buildings and took one reactor offline, increasing the threat of radiation leaks and fires.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it was a Ukrainian cannon that damaged the high-voltage power lines that were servicing the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions and attacked the plant.
NBC News has not verified the claims of either side.
In any case, politicians around the world have warned of an increasing threat of disaster, and 54,000 people have lost power as a result of the bombardment, said Energoatom, the Ukrainian national energy company. I told NBC News on Saturday. .. The
plant is located in Zaporizhia, a region of southeastern Ukraine seized by Russian troops early in the war, and may now bein terms of Ukrainian counterattacks}
Petro Kotin, head of Energoatom, called on the Russian army to withdraw and give control to the peacekeeper team.
"What we need is for Russia to free the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and create some sort of non-military zone around it. He told NBC News on Saturday. "Nuclear catastrophe" and "radiation catastrophe" due to the large amount of spent nuclear material that could collide with rockets, he added, adding that levels "can increase at any time." Warned that there was a real risk.
Energoatom claimed on Monday that Russian troops had set up land mines at the power plant and warned that further combat could cause catastrophe.
The company quoted Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for the intelligence department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. , Said on Ukrainian television on Saturday: "There is confirmed information about the Russian occupation forces of the power unit of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Enel Godard mining the power unit."
Moscow is still accused Not responding to. .. NBC News requested the Kremlin r esponse.
Russia refuses to fire plants and replaces them An artillery brigade launching an attack from the nearby town of Marhanets', which accused Ukraine of the 44th Independent Artillery. Ukraine was responsible for "a new act of nuclear terrorism," according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. According to Russian news agency Interfax, the reactor complex was operating in "normal mode," said Yevgeniy Balitsky, head of the Russian-established municipality, on Monday. Later, the Moscow Ministry of Defense said that the high-voltage lines were damaged and power surges occurred, "forcing staff to reduce power from two of the site's six reactors to prevent confusion." Stated. "
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the bombardment" extremely dangerous "on a daily phone call with reporters on Monday, adding: Continuation of such artillery.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week that he was "deeply concerned about the Russian military taking over the factory."
"There are credible reports," Brinken said, "Russia uses this plant as a human shield, but it means that it is firing at Ukrainians from around the plant. It's a nuclear shield, and of course Ukrainians can't and won't fight back. " A terrible accident involving a nuclear plant.
Russian troopsseized the plantin March, more than a week after the invasion began, but it is still operated by Ukrainian staff. According to Energo Atom, there are about 500 Russian soldiers and 50 military vehicles in the factory.
The 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine is considered the worst on record. More than 100,000 people living within 19 miles needed to be evacuated, and the resulting radiation was detected throughout Europe. Officially, less than 50 people died as a direct result of Chernobyl, which is fiercely contested by scientists and environmental groups.
Ukrainian lawmakers say 3 million people could be killed and 51 million could be affected by radiation in the event of a serious incident involving the Zaporizhia nuclear power plantI'm guessing.
Josh Lederman reported from Kyiv and Patrick Smith from London.
Patrick Smith is the editor and reporter of London-based NBC News Digital.
Josh Lederman is a correspondent for NBC News.
Contributed by Reuters, Erica Anglo, Morgan Cesky and Julia Tarmazan.
