The fights resumed around the installation occupied by the Russian army in the east of the country. kyiv does not intend to let Moscow Use the fear of a nuclear disaster as a tactical shield.
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The fear of a nuclear disaster in Ukraine is strengthening while the Zaporijia power plant, the most important in Europe, has become the scene of daily clashes since Friday, August 5. Moscow and kyiv reject each other’s liability that had not caused radioactive flight on Tuesday. Images diffused by the Russian media show impacts of indefinite projectiles on the territory of the nuclear power plant, and the rear part of a large (notoriously imprecise) rocket planted in the ground.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that Ukrainian artillery shot the nuclear power plant on Saturday August 6 at 12:40 p.m. from the DNIEPR right bank. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov denounced actions on Monday “heavy with catastrophic consequences for large territories, for all of Europe”. Alternating the climate of concern about nuclear power, Moscow has in the informed stride Washington of the “temporary” judgment of all Russian military sites subject to American inspections as part of the New Start nuclear disarmament treaty.
On the Ukrainian side, the state operator of the nuclear sector, Energoatom, says on the contrary that Russian artillery has targeted a high -voltage line connecting the power station to the Ukrainian electricity network. President Zelensky returned the ball to the Russian camp. “There is not a single nation in the world that can feel safe when a terrorist state [Russia] bombes a nuclear power plant,” he reacted in his daily video on Sunday.
Her American ally also points to Moscow: “We continue to call Russia to stop all of its military operations in and around Ukrainian nuclear power plants and to restore control to Ukraine,” urged the White House on Monday . “Any attack on nuclear power plants is a suicidal thing,” warned the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres.
“Sanctuarize” of arms deposits
The Ukrainian staff regularly signals the bombing of localities located on the bank of the DNIEPR (Nikopol and Marganiets) by Russian artillery based in the nuclear power plant. The Russian -speaking site of investigation The Insider (close to the Russian opposition) published on Tuesday published images of a major deployment of Russian equipment on the territory of the power station. We see trucks unloading military equipment.
These images seem to confirm the claims of the mayor of Enerhodar (commune where the power plant is located), which explained to the world in June that the Russian forces stored ammunition there. It is for occupants of “sanctuarizing” arms deposits differently vulnerable to increasingly precise strikes of Ukrainian artillery as western weapons affect. Five hundred Russian soldiers are currently based on the territory of the nuclear power plant, as well as several dozen armored vehicles and anti -aircraft defense systems.
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