Those responsible for the drone strikes at the beginning of April against the nuclear installation compound remain “impossible” to identify, deplores the UN agency.
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“We are getting dangerously close to a nuclear accident” in Zaporizhia, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) alerted on Monday April 15. Rafael Grossi believes that he is “impossible” to find out who is responsible for the recent attacks on the Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
The Zaporizhia site (ZNPP), occupied since March 2022 by Russia in southern Ukraine, suffered a series of drone strikes in early April, with Moscow and kyiv mutually blaming each other. Wherever they come from, these “reckless attacks”the first to directly target the largest power plant in Europe since November 2022, “must stop immediately”argued Rafael Grossi during a meeting of the UN Security Council dedicated to this issue.
“Although fortunately they did not cause a radiological incident this time, they significantly increased the risk at the Zaporizhia power plant, where nuclear safety is already compromised”, added the director general of the UN body, which has experts on site. According to him, these strikes constitute a “dangerous precedent, having successfully reached the containment structure of a reactor”.
