Ukraine accuses Russia of deploying missile launchers at a nuclear plant

The head of the Ukrainian state company operating nuclear power plants accused the Russian army of deploying missile launchers at the site of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia (south), to fire especially on the Nikopol and Dnipro regions, where strikes were recorded on Friday night.

"The Russians have installed missile launch systems on the territory of the nuclear power plant for electricity production in Zaporizhia," Petro Kotin, head of Energo-Atom, said Friday night on Telegram after a television interview on the Ukrainian "United News" channel.

"The situation at the power plant is very tense and the tension is increasing day by day," he added, accusing the Russians of bringing their equipment there, including missile systems that they had previously used in bombing from the other side of the Dnipro River and on the territory of Nikopol, eighty kilometers southwest of Zaporizhia.

He pointed out that a number of up to 500 Russian soldiers are deployed at the station's site and control it.

The largest nuclear plant in Ukraine fell into the hands of the Russians in early March, shortly after the start of the war launched by Russia against Ukraine on February 24.

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