Atomic Agency Denounces ‘Almost Daily’ Activity at Zaporizhzhia
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has denounced “near daily” military activities in the vicinity of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, again warning of the danger they pose to the integrity of the facility.
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The new warning from the United Nations nuclear agency comes after its experts heard, during an inspection last Tuesday, "more than a hundred shots in the vicinity" of the plant.
"On three occasions, within the space of an hour on Tuesday afternoon, the IAEA team at the ZNPP heard a total of more than 100 bursts of small arms fire", the agency's statement said.
The IAEA received information from the Russian authorities that control the plant that Russian forces are fighting a unit of Ukrainian drone operators and that the shots heard on Tuesday were fired by Russian troops to shoot down a device that was flying over the building of the plant's technical training centre.
"The IAEA experts did not see any evidence of drones at the perimeter of the facility", the agency's director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said in a statement in which he reported this week's events, quoted by Europa Press.
"This latest military activity at the plant underscores the continuing precarious situation with serious implications for the safety and security of this major nuclear power plant", the agency's director-general warned.
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