MOSCOW \u2014 Ukrainian drones attacked two facilities at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant \u200bin southeastern Ukraine overnight on Monday, but there is no threat to nuclear safety, the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation said.<\/p>\n
Alexei Likhachev, \u200cdirector general of Rosatom, said a driver delivering food for plant employees was killed in the \u2060drone attack.<\/p>\n
According to Likhachev, a laboratory \u200bbuilding and a radioactive waste processing \u2060plant were the targets. Ukraine has not commented on the incident.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, \u200cthe plant’s management said \u200cUkrainian shelling over recent weeks had damaged external power supply equipment \u2060at the plant, with electricity currently being \u2060provided by emergency diesel generators.<\/p>\n
The plant produces no electricity but needs power supplied by two external links to keep nuclear fuel cool.<\/p>\n
Russia seized the plant, Europe’s largest with six reactors, in the first weeks of the war that began with Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of its smaller \u200cneighbor.<\/p>\n
Moscow and Kyiv have since regularly accused each \u200bother of military action that compromises nuclear safety.<\/p>\n
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, has repeatedly acted to secure a ceasefire around the plant to have repairs carried out to lines connecting the plant to the main power grid.<\/p>\n
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UN monitors are stationed at the Zaporizhzhia plant and three others operating in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, writing \u200bon her ministry’s website, accused the West of enabling Ukrainian attacks by failing to \u200ccondemn them publicly.<\/p>\n
“Kyiv’s \u200cintensification of \u2060shelling the Zaporizhzhia plant has been made possible by the lack of an appropriate response to such actions from Western countries, which are effectively facilitating new attacks,” Zakharova wrote.<\/p>\n
“Such an attitude towards strikes by the Ukrainian military demonstrates the \u200ctrue value of statements \u200bby representatives of these countries about nuclear \u200cand physical nuclear safety \u2060at various international \u200bforums.”<\/p>\n
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