4:20 am: UN chief demands end to 'suicidal' attacks on nuclear power plants
The UN secretary-general on Monday called any attack on nuclear power plants "suicidal" and called for a halt to military operations around that of Zaporizhia, Ukraine, so that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) can access it.
"Any attack on nuclear power plants is a suicidal thing," Antonio Guterres told a press conference in Tokyo.
12:02 a.m .: Volodymyr Zelensky: “There is not a single nation in the world that can feel safe when a terrorist state bombs a nuclear power plant”
The site of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, the largest in Europe, was bombed for the second time in just over 24 hours this weekend, the two belligerents mutually accused each other of having attacked them on Sunday.
The occupation authorities of the town of Energodar, where the Zaporizhia power station is located, thus affirmed that the Ukrainian army had fired during the night from Saturday to Sunday a cluster bomb with a "multiple rocket launcher Hurricane".
"The shrapnel and rocket engine fell 400 meters from a working reactor," they continued, adding that the strike had "damaged" administrative buildings and hit "a spent nuclear fuel storage area." .
At the same time, the Ukrainian state company Energoatom announced that one of the employees on site had to be hospitalized for "wounds caused by the explosion" of one of the rockets fired "Saturday evening" by the Russians.
"Three radiation monitoring detectors around the plant site have been damaged (...). Consequently, it is currently impossible to detect" a possible increase in radioactivity and therefore to "intervene in good time", a she added.
With AFP
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