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For: EFE Updated 27 Apr 2022 , 27: 59 am EDT
The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, denounced that three cruise missiles launched by Russia have flown over simultaneously power units of three Ukrainian nuclear power plants: Zaporizhia, Khmelnytska and Yuzhnoukrainsk.
Russian troops “they launched three missiles against Ukraine so that they would fly directly over the blocks of our nuclear power plants”, said the Ukrainian president in a video message broadcast last night, reported the local agency Interfax-Ukraine.
Zelensky assured that the launches were simultaneous and wondered what is the reason and if this action constitutes a threat: “I have no words for this,” he added.
According to the Ukrainian president, the actions of the Russian military near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant showed that do not understand nuclear safety rules.
“It turns out that they don’t understand what Chernobyl is. The Russian troops who tried to attack kyiv through the Chernobyl zone used this closed territory as a military foothold”, Zelensky recalled.
“ They established positions on the ground, where it is dangerous even to stand . They drove armored vehicles into the territory, where radiation-contaminated materials are buried. The amount of radioactive particles there is out of scale”, insisted the Ukrainian president.
Furthermore, the Russians “ destroyed the monitoring points of the radioactivity, state control systems at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, ransacked the nuclear analytical laboratory. They even stole contaminated objects”, added Zelensky.
At the same time, he said that at present, the uninterrupted operation of stations, including the The nuclear power of Zaporizhia, temporarily occupied by the Russians, can be guaranteed thanks to the professionalism of the Ukrainian specialists still working there.
Zelensky’s statements come one day after Two cruise missiles launched by Russian troops flew low over the Zaporizhia plant, in southern Ukraine, considered the largest in Europe, according to denounced the state company that manages it, Energoatom.
Those missiles subsequently impacted the city of the same name and a few kilometers from the nuclear facilities, causing at least one death. EFE
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