MOSCOW AND KYIV TRADE BLAME OVER NUCLEAR PLANT ATTACK

Thu 11 August 2022:

Ukraine has accused Russia on Wednesday of killing at least 13 people and wounding 10 with rockets fired from around a captured nuclear power plant in the centre of the country, in the knowledge it would be risky for Ukrainian forces to return fire.

“The cowardly Russians can’t do anything more so they strike towns ignobly hiding at the Zaporizhzhia atomic power station,” Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, said on social media.

Ukraine says about 500 Russian troops are at the plant, where Ukrainian technicians continue to work.

Meanwhile, Russian news agencies reported that Russian anti-aircraft defence systems had thwarted Ukrainian attacks the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as well as on the occupied Ukrainian city of Enerhodar.

Over the weekend the International Atomic Energy Agency director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, warned that the situation at the power station could spiral out of control.

“Military action jeopardizing the safety and security of the Zaporizhzya nuclear power plant is completely unacceptable and must be avoided at all costs,” he said in a statement. “I strongly and urgently appeal to all parties to exercise the utmost restraint in the vicinity of this important nuclear facility, with its six reactors.”

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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