The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency accuses the perpetrators of the explosions of deliberately targeting that target
Less than 500 kilometers from Chernobyl, the site of the greatest nuclear disaster the world has ever experienced, another record-breaking tragedy looms. Russia’s artillery strikes in Ukraine come so close to the Zaporizhia plant, the largest in Europe, that the explosions this weekend caused “severe” damage to facilities, including radioactive waste depots, condensers and irrigation cooling systems.
“Stop this madness!” said the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, to a French channel. The artillery fire shook critical facilities all Saturday until 6 p.m. local time and returned to the attack at 9:15 a.m. Sunday with a series of shocking explosions that caused a dozen hits in just 40 minutes, according to the UN. “We are talking about what happened just a few feet away, not miles away,” Grossi clarified in a UN statement.
The agency yesterday tried to estimate the damage to the Russian resistance, which Ukraine accuses. “Once again we were lucky that there was no serious nuclear incident, but next time we may not be so lucky,” Grossi warned. The diplomat did not want to name the author, but insisted in a television interview that whoever does it “knows exactly what he is aiming for”, he charged. “It’s completely intentional.”
Source: La Verdad
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