Warn there is a risk of leakage of hydrogen and radioactive materials after the attacks as the EU condemns “the serious breach of security”
Tension is mounting around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, after Friday’s daytime and nighttime attacks, in which Kiev and Moscow accuse each other of “terrorism” with the same expression. Ukrainian nuclear power operator Energoatom, reporting that one of the reactors had to be shut down, warned that there was “the risk of hydrogen escape and dispersion of radioactive materials, apart from a major fire hazard”.
The company explained that “the nitrogen-oxygen station and outbuilding” were damaged. Ukrainian presidential adviser Mijailo Podoliak used much more forceful and colloquial language on his Twitter account to denounce what happened: “Europe was energized this morning (referring to Saturday) because the factory did not explode miraculously. Russia is in charge of the factory and organizes provocations from there.” It must be remembered that in March, shortly after the invasion, the Russians took control of the nuclear facility.
According to the Ukrainian version, Moscow launched three rocket launchers near the plant on Friday and continued to bomb the area overnight, hitting a highway used to transport hydrogen and power lines. “It is an act of terror,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Russia assures that it was the Ukrainians who fired the projectiles and started a fire at the hydrogen station, but the fire was kept under control by emergency services. “It’s nuclear terrorism,” Senator Konstantin Kosáchev criticized. The pro-Russian authority in the region urged the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit the plant to confirm its story.
According to a report from the Institute for the Study of War, Russia would attack other locations from Zaporizhia, leaving Kiev in a difficult situation, with the dilemma of whether to respond or let them continue to use that base area.
The European Union intervened in the debate with a resounding condemnation of Russia for a serious “violation” of safety regulations. “It is another example of his disregard for international standards,” European diplomacy chief Josep Borrell said on his Twitter account.
The pulse of the war story experienced another excited episode yesterday with the resignation of the director of the Ukrainian branch of the NGO Amnesty International, in protest at a controversial report in which the organization accuses Ukrainian troops of endangering the lives of the NGO Amnesty International. civilians by establishing bases in areas inhabited by civilians. “They went to the Department of Defense to request a response, but they gave very little time to respond. That is why the report seemed to support the Russian narrative,” he claimed.
On the spot, Russia yesterday announced that 600 Ukrainian fighters were killed in bombing raids in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine and nearby Dnipropetrovsk. According to British intelligence, Russian forces are concentrating in the south in anticipation of a Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kherson or as part of preparations for an offensive.
On the other hand, the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on his return from a visit to Russia where he met Vladimir Putin, has confirmed that the Turkish government will start paying part of its Russian gas imports in rubles.
Source: La Verdad
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