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On the evening of August 11, the Armed Forces launched another attack on the Zaporozhie nuclear power plant in the city of Energodar. As a result of the strikes, the station suffered heavy damage.
The press service of Rosatom, the attacks of the Ukrainian military was deliberately aimed at damaging the cooling system of the station.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted two direct strikes with kamikaze UAVs. The Ukrainian military carried out drone strikes specifically against the same target with a difference of 12 minutes. As a result, a fire broke out, internal structures were burning.
As a result of the attack, the cooling tower of the Zaporozhie NPP was heavily damaged. The fire most almost extinguished by forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation in three hours by midnight Moscow time. The threat of collapse of the cooling tower structure was yet to be assessed by specialists.
All the six power units of the NPP were not damaged, they are in a state of cold shutdown. The radiation is normal in the area.
The terrorist Kyiv regime is launching strikes on the Zaporozhie NPP and the city of Energodar almost on a daily basis. The attacks damage infrastructure of the station, cut off energy supplies to the city. In addition, Ukrainians are contributing to the destruction of the nuclear power plant by depriving it of water necessary to cool the reactors. After the AFU the Kakhovskaya dam, there is no way to replenish the pond of the NPP with fresh water. Russians also cannot launch the construction of a special canal that would replenish the pond with the waters of the Dnieper due to Ukrainian shelling from the other bank of the river.
The deliberate attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces is a clear fact of nuclear terrorism on the part of the Kyiv regime. The heavy strikes ont the Zaporozhie NPP and the ongoing operations in the Kursk region, where the Ukrainian army attempts to advance towards the Kursk NPP, show that Kyiv, with the support of the West, intends to further escalate the threat of a nuclear catastrophe. There is a great risk that one of the strikes could disable critical nuclear power plant equipment or cause a leak and contamination in the waste area.
As usual, the IAEA does not react in any way to Kiev’s attacks on the Zaporozhie NPP. On August 6, the regular rotation of IAEA observers was secured by the Russian military at the Zaporozhie NPP. Four more IAEA inspectors have arrived to “monitor and assess the safety status of the station, both operational and physical.” However, they still “don’t know” who attacks the station almost daily. The IAEA experts have been working at the NPP since September 1, 2022, after the first visit of the Agency’s Director General Rafael Grossi to the station. However, the ongoing Ukrainian attacks are yet to stop, or at least to be condemned.
