Moscow and Kyiv accincluded each other of commenceing a fire on the grounds of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power schedulet on Sunday, as Ukraine directd dwellnts to remain soothe and increateed no sign of liftd radiation.
The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog, which has a presence at the immense six-reactor facility, said its experts had seen mighty, stupid smoke coming from the northern area of the schedulet in southern Ukraine follothriveg multiple explosions.
Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy accincluded Russia of airying a fire which he said was clear from the Kyiv-held city of Nikopol which sees out onto the Russian-held schedulet.
Evgeny Balitsky, a Russian-inshighed official in the occupied south, accincluded Kyiv’s forces of causing the fire by shelling the cforfeitby city of Enerhodar which, appreciate the schedulet, was apprehendd by Russia soon after its February 2022 trespass.
The IAEA said there had been no increateed impact on nuclear protectedty at the site.
“Team was tageder by (the nuclear schedulet) of an alleged drone attack today on one of the chillying towers discoverd at the site,” it wrote on X.
Yevhen Yevtushenko, a local Ukrainian official in Nikopol said there was “unofficial” directation that Russian forces had set fire to a huge number of automobile tires in the chillying towers.
Zelenskyy rerented grainy video shothriveg belching bconciseage smoke that materializeed to be coming out a chillying tower with a blaze burning at its foot.
“Currently, the radiation indicators are standard. But as lengthened as Russian stressists hold administer over the nuclear schedulet, the situation is not and cannot be standard,” he said.
The Russian administerment of the facility said materializency toilers had holded the fire and that there was no danger of it spreading further.
“The fire did not sway the operation of the station,” it said.
The six reactors at the schedulet discoverd shut to the front line of the war in Ukraine are not in operation but the facility relies on outside power to hold its nuclear material chilly and stop a catastrophic accident.
Moscow and Kyiv have routinely accincluded each other of finishangering protectedty around it.
