IAEA: UA attacks near Zaporizhzhia nuclear site amount to "playing with fire"

 

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 Ukrainian attacks near Zaporizhzhia nuclear site amount to "playing with fire". Zelensky called for new sanctions:

1. The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has sounded an alarm about the situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after shelling damaged parts of the compound on Friday.

“I’m extremely concerned by the shelling yesterday at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which underlines the very real risk of a nuclear disaster that could threaten public health and the environment in Ukraine and beyond,” Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement.

Grossi said Ukraine had reported no damage to the reactors and no radiological release, but that military action was “unacceptable” and had to be “avoided at all costs.”
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2. On Friday, Vladimir Rogov, a council member of the region’s military-civilian administration, said that Ukrainian troops had shelled the area around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant three times during the day, causing fire and damaging two power lines crucial to the operation of the power units.
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3. Deliberate regular shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP) by Ukrainian armed formations poses a real nuclear threat not only to Ukraine, but also to Europe, and the scale of potential radioactive contamination will exceed the consequences of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Saturday.
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4. Zelensky blames Russians for Ukrainian nuclear plant bombings.

The President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, called for new sanctions against Russia for the  Ukrainian shelling of Zaporizhzhya NPP.
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5. The Zaporozhye NPP is the largest in Europe. It produced a quarter of Ukraine’s electricity. The total capacity of its six reactors is about 6,000 megawatts. Since 1996, the Zaporozhye NPP has been a separate division of the Ukraine-controlled national nuclear energy generating company Energoatom. In March 2022, the facility was taken over by Russian forces. At the moment the power plant operates at 70% of its capacity, because there is an oversupply of electricity in the liberated territory of the Zaporozhye Region. There are plans for arranging electricity supply to Crimea. [@TASS]
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6. VIDEO: IAEA warns of 'Nuclear disaster' as fighting in Zaporizhzhya intensifies[@WION]