An accident at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant would be “almost impossible” and any damage would be a deliberate act by Russian forces, Ukrainian nuclear personnel have told openDemocracy.
Russia has occupied the plant, in the city of Enerhodar, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Its forces are currently preparing to damage the occupied plant, Ukrainian officials claim, in order to stop Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the country’s southeast.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Sunday that Russia has “approved the scenario of mining” the Zaporizhzhia plant (ZNPP). Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov, in turn, asserted that the Russian military has mined four out of six reactors, by allegedly placing vehicles rigged with explosives next to them.
