“Following a shelling by Russian forces at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, a fire has broken out,” the spokesman said. Andrey Tuz in a video posted on the plant’s Telegram account. Russian forces bombed the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and in Europe in Zaporizhia, near the city of energize, and at first, due to the flames, it generated alarm due to the high risk of transforming into a new Chernobyl.
The power plant, which has been fighting since yesterday, is located in the south of Ukraine, on the front line, in the town of Energodar, in the Zaporizhia oblast (region), near the Dnieper River estuary, to the northwest. of Crimea, roughly halfway between the besieged city of Mariupol and the Russian-occupied city of Kherson.
The news was reported by various US media, including the AP agency. The city’s mayor also claims the plant is on fire, according to a quote from a British reporter on Twitter.
The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, demanded an immediate ceasefire from Russian troops at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. The Russian forces are “attacking Zaporizhia, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. There are already flames. If it explodes, it would be 10 times worse than Chernobyl. Russia must cease fire immediately, allow firefighters” intervene and “create a security zone,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter.
Shortly after, the news of the fire was confirmed by those responsible for the plant.
The bombings were reported in the early hours of Friday morning in the Ukraine (tonight in Argentina), according to the AFP, ANSA and Europa Press news agencies.
In the early hours of the day, the Ukrainian authorities informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that “there is no recorded change in radiation levels” and confirmed that the safety of the plant is guaranteed.
A few days after the invasion of Ukraine began, on February 24, Russia reported that it had taken control of Chernobyl and for a couple of days it had been struggling to do the same in Zaporizhia.
The International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) reported on Tuesday that it had lost contact with automatic radiological monitoring stations in Zaporizhia, which is home to six of Ukraine’s 15 nuclear reactors.
Ukrainian specialists were trying to determine the cause of the loss of data transfer from Zaporizhia to the IAEA and to restore the functioning of the system.
Likewise, the IAEA condemned in a resolution the seizure of Ukrainian nuclear power plants by Russian forces.
After hearing the news of the bombing of the nuclear power plant, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodimir Zelensky, to find out about the situation, a US official reported.
Source: Ambito
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