KYIV: Energoatom Ukraine’s nuclear agency accused Moscow’s troops of an attack on the country’s second largest nuclear plant in the south on Monday.
The accusations come after the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine. Europe’s largest atomic facility faced frequent shelling in recent months raising fears of a nuclear incident.
Energoatom said in a post on the Telegram messaging service on Monday. “The Russian army carried out a missile attack on the industrial site” of the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant.
It added that a “powerful explosion” took place “just 300 metres” (985 feet) from the facility’s reactors but they were operating as “normal”.
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The nuclear agency said, posting photos of glass shattered around the broken windows. The strike damaged more than a hundred windows of the power station’s building,
The agency also released photographs of what it said was a two-metre-deep crater from where the missile landed.
Energoatom discloses that.“Fortunately, no one among the power plant staff was hurt.”
Reacting to the strike, Zelensky said on Telegram.“Russia endangers the whole world. We have to stop it before it’s too late” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr.