Time.news – The Ukrainian armed forces are fighting very close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. According to reports from local Russian authorities occupying the area, the roof of the nuclear power plant has been hit.
According to the Russian administration, the Ukrainian armed forces opened artillery fire towards the nuclear power plant in Enerhodar, in the part of the region controlled by Russia, and a grenade hit the roof of a special structure of the plant, used to store the fuel for the nuclear power plant reactors. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces stand firing artillery near the power units of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant“, said the administration in a message posted on its official channel.
Zaporizhzhia power station
The published images “show the hit of a 155 mm artillery shell on the roof of special facility No. 1 on the land of the nuclear power plant. The bullet was fired from a US-made M777 howitzer from the city of Nikopol, on the opposite side of the Dnieper River “, the statement read.
The photos were also published by the chief council of the provisional administration of the Zaporizhzhia region, Vladimir Rogov, on his Telegram channel. According to the Enerhodar authorities, the goal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is to foil the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and to prevent the initiation of cooperation between Russia, the administration of the region of Zaporizhzhia and the IAEA.
The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) wrote today on his Twitter account that a team of the agency of sta heading to the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, which has been the subject of several attacks in recent days. “The day has come – he wrote on Twitter – the Aiea mission of support and assistance is underway. We must protect the safety of the largest nuclear plant in Ukraine and Europe”.
The mission, then wrote the director of the IAEA Rafael Grossi, will arrive in Zaporizhzhia by the weekend. Several times Grossi had come in over the last few days talking about the imminent risks of a nuclear catastrophe.
“Offender in Kiev su Kherson? Fake news”
The commander of the Russian armed forces in Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, denies an offensive by Ukrainian troops in Kherson and in the southern chessboard of the conflict. “This is the umpteenth fake news – he said – of Ukrainian propaganda“.
“It is another bogus story like all the previous ones, like the alleged ‘attacks’ on the Crimean Bridge that the armored troops of the Kiev regime would have conducted many times”. According to Aksyonov, the Ukrainian forces suffer “huge losses in the southern sector and in all the others, but they have to prove their activity to the western masters”.