https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2024/apr/08/un-nuclear-watchdog-head-condemns-drone-strike-on-zaporizhzhia-power-plant

UN nuclear watchdog head condemns drone strike on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Rafael Grossi says three direct hits against the main reactor containment structures ‘significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident’

The head of the UN’s atomic watchdog agency has condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine, saying such attacks “significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident”.

In a statement on X, Rafael Grossi confirmed at least three direct hits against the ZNPP main reactor containment structures. “This cannot happen,” the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.

Grossi said it was the first such attack since November 2022, when he set out five basic principles to avoid a serious nuclear accident with radiological consequences.

Russian officials at the plant claimed the site was attacked on Sunday by Ukrainian military drones, including a strike on the dome of the plant’s sixth power unit.

Ukraine’s intelligence agency has denied responsibility for the strike. “Russian strikes, including imitation ones, on the territory of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant ... have long been a well known criminal practice of the invaders,” a spokesperson told local media.

The Guardian has been unable to verify the claims.




A few of things I noted here; it seems the UN are not immediately supporting everything the proxy war forces are doing. Six months ago this would have been framed as "UN tells Russia not to attack themselves at nuclear reactor".

Secondly, the Ukrainians have obviously been watching Israel with that explanation. It wasn't us, you know the people fighting the people that occupy that area. It was them, droning themselves to make us look bad. Pricks.

Last, the fraudian, of course, has not stopped spewing the proxy war propaganda with it's "could not be verified" (which means "We know they did it, you know they did it, but we don't want to say they did it") line and also things like this later in the text:

"The power plant has been caught in the crossfire since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in 2022 and seized the facility shortly afterwards."

Not, "been under attack by the Ukrainians", but "been caught in the crossfire".

Also, they bury this right at the end:

In Russia, a girl died and four other people were wounded when the debris of a downed Ukrainian drone fell on a car carrying a family of six people in Russia’s Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

Ukrainian drones? Killing innocent people? It's almost like they are out they droning all kinds of things, like...nuclear reactors...