The Russians said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit Energodar, where the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is located.
Evgeny Yevtushenko, head of the Nikopol district, probably warned about this provocation on August 22.
The mayor of Nikopol, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, said that “a provocation was committed by the Russian army on the opposite bank of the reservoir.”
He asked if possible to leave the streets and avoid mass gatherings.
It should be noted that the city of Energodar is located on the other side of the coast, where Russian invaders terrorize Ukraine from the ZNPP. The Ukrainian side has been reporting on the possibility of provocations throughout the past week.
The occupiers traditionally accused the Ukrainian Armed Forces of shelling. But the circumstances of what happened raise big questions. Judging by the damage to the car with almost even holes from the balls on the video from the invaders themselves, the car was fired at almost point-blank range. In theory, from a machine gun, – writes Dmitry Orlov, the mayor of Energodar.
Then Yevtushenko added that the warning concerns cities, villages and settlements located on the banks of the Kakhovka reservoir.
Russia can arrange a provocation with a fire at the ZNPP. This was announced on August 22 by the coordinator of the public movement “Common Cause” Oleksandr Danilyuk, citing Ukrainian intelligence sources.
To do this, a large amount of automotive fuel was placed on the territory of the station. In preparation for a provocation, the direction of additional units of the RCBZ to the station is indicated.
As of 08:00 on August 22, 2022, Zaporozhye NPP operates with the risk of violating radiation and fire safety standards. Periodic shelling of the Zaporizhzhya NPP by Russian troops from the MLRS entailed a serious risk for the safe operation of the plant, Energoatom said in a statement.
The department recalled that on August 5, as a result of an attack by the Russian military on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, emergency protection worked at one of the power units – and one of the three operating power units is now off. During the shelling, the nitrogen-oxygen station was seriously damaged, and the auxiliary building was united. There are still risks of hydrogen leakage and dispersion of radioactive substances, and the fire hazard is also high.
On August 6, due to the shelling by the invaders of ZNPP, three radiation monitoring sensors around the site of the ZNPP storage facilities were damaged.
On August 11, the invaders fired at the fire station located outside the ZNPP territory and designed to protect it from fires and extinguish them in case of emergencies at the plant. On August 13, an open switchgear 750 kV (VRP-750) was also damaged.
And on August 20, as a result of shelling, one of the transitional galleries was damaged, through which personnel go from special buildings to power units (overpass), windows were broken in the building.
Given that the actions of the invaders cannot be foreseen, the threat to the physical security of the station remains. So far, the Zaporozhye NPP continues to operate and produce electricity for the needs of the domestic energy system, – summed up in Energoatom.
Source: Racurs
