Ukrainian Drones Attack Nuclear Power Plant in Zaporozhye Region
Wed 3:20 pm +00:00, 20 Jul 2022 1
Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant attacked by Ukrainian drones
A Ukrainian nuclear power plant located in the city of Energodar has been attacked by three ‘kamikadze drones’ belonging to the Ukrainian armed forces, Russian media reports, citing local officials.
According to them, Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, located in southeastern Ukraine, has not been damaged.
Its reactor was not impacted by the attack either.
The radiation background is normal and it is constantly being monitored, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Zaporozhye Region military-civil administration, told Tass news agency.
This is not the first time the NPP has been targeted by the Ukrainian military. On July 12, Ukrainian UAVs dropped several 120mm shells on a building located next to the power plant, causing damage to its roof and window, the press-service of the Energodar city administration told RIA Novosti. According to the spokesperson of the administration, 11 employees were injured during that attack, with four of them remaining in serious condition.
Russia currently controls the southern and central part of the Zaporozhye region, including the city of Energodar, where the biggest nuclear plant in Europe is situated. The administrative center of the region, Zaporozhye, remains under Ukrainian control.
Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”
In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.
sovereigntea says:
NATO’s evil puppets attacked nuclear reactors today !
Ukrainian armed formations, which received an order from Kyiv to arrange terror in the liberated territories, today attacked the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with the help of loitering ammunition. This is reported by the administration of Energodar.
According to the information available at the moment, three kamikaze drones “worked out” on the territory of the nuclear power plant, explosions thundered behind the nuclear units. This was confirmed by Vladimir Rogov, a member of the State Administration of the Zaporozhye region. Previously, the mass of the warhead of the attacking drones amounted to several kilograms in TNT equivalent.
According to preliminary information, the UAVs were equipped with warheads with an explosive mass calculated in kilograms in TNT equivalent.
– he wrote in his TG channel.
Later it became known that there were four attacks in total, the last drone attacked the station at 16:10 Moscow time. time. The NPP equipment and reactor units were not damaged, everything is operating normally, there were no victims of the raid.
As noted, this is the third attack on nuclear power plants carried out by Ukrainian nationalists in recent days. And all of them were carried out with the help of drones. On July 12, there was an attempt to drop 120 mm caliber mines from a UAV, no one was hurt, on July 18, another attack injured 11 people, four of whom are in serious condition.
Zaporozhye NPP is located on the banks of the Kakhovka reservoir in the city of Energodar. It is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
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