2023-07-05 03:53:02
The information war is raging around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. Russians and Ukrainians accuse each other of planning an attack on the highly sensitive site occupied since the start of the invasion by Putin’s men.
The Ukrainian army warned of “the possible preparation of a provocation on the territory of the Zaporizhia power plant in the near future”. Understand: a Russian attack. She claims that “objects similar to explosive devices were placed on the outer roof of reactors 3 and 4”.
“Their denotation should not damage the generators, but give the impression of bombardments from the Ukrainian side”, continues the army, warning that Moscow “will make misinformation about this”. The message was shared in the evening by the Telegram channel of EnergoAtom, the national nuclear energy production company. This Tuesday evening, President Zelensky for his part accused Russia of planning “dangerous provocations” at the Zaporijjia power plant.
“The Ukrainians saw that the Russians destroyed the Kachovka dam (last May) without too many consequences (…) now nothing seems impossible,” tweeted reporter Cyrille Amoursky. “Personally, I find it hard to believe. If the threat is so serious, why don’t the Ukrainians evacuate the populations around the plant? “, for his part, delivered his colleague Loup Bureau.
Le Parisien collected, a few days ago, the worried testimonies of residents of the neighboring town of Marhanets, where municipal employees received white protective suits last month.
On Twitter, several messages reported an evacuation of the Russian occupation forces in the vicinity of the power plant on Tuesday evening, without this information having been able to be independently verified.
The Russians also warn of an imminent attack
In Moscow, an adviser to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, Renat Karchaa, accused kyiv of preparing an “attack” on the plant. “Today we received information that I am authorized to reveal. On July 5, during the night, in complete darkness, the Ukrainian army will try to attack the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhya,” he told Russian television. He assures that kyiv has planned to use “long-range precision weapons” and drones.
Falling into the hands of the Russian army on March 4, 2022, a few days after the start of the conflict, Europe’s largest power plant was targeted by fire and was cut off from the electricity grid several times during the war. According to kyiv, Russia has placed troops and weapons in its compound.
The destruction of the Kachovka dam located in the Russian-occupied southern zone has raised concerns about the sustainability of the basin used to cool the plant’s six reactors.
On June 22, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of preparing a “terrorist attack” involving a “radiation” leak at the Zaporizhia power plant, an accusation immediately dismissed as a “lie” by the Kremlin.
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