Earlier in the day on Thursday, the Russian and Ukrainian authorities mentioned five strikes affecting the site of the power plant and accused each other of being responsible for them.
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“The situation is getting worse, radioactive substances are located nearby and several radiation sensors have been damaged,” alerted, Thursday, August 11, the Ukrainian operator, Energoatom, on Telegram messaging. This damage was created in a new bombardment which hit the site of the Zaporizhia power plant, near a nuclear reactor, on Thursday.
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“At present, no contamination has been detected at the station and the level of radioactivity is normal”However, said Yevgeny Balitsky, the head of the civil and military administration set up in this region of south-eastern Ukraine occupied by the Russians. He also pointed out that “several tons” of radioactive waste is stored on site.
“Five new strikes were reported in the direct vicinity of a deposit of radioactive substances”Energoatom said earlier Thursday, pointing to Russian forces, which on March 4 seized the Zaporizhia power plant, the largest in Europe.
A pro-Russian official, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the regional administration installed by Moscow, for his part questioned “fighters (of Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky”evoking five shots of multiple rocket launchers and heavy artillery pieces from the right bank of the Dnieper, the great river that crosses the region, in the same place and in identical terms.