“We found two weak points: the first is the cooling system, they are trying to kill the cooling circuit ... And the second component is the storage of nuclear fuel waste,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, Ivan Nechaev, deputy director of the information and press department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that Kyiv's shelling of the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant was an act of nuclear terrorism.

Russian air defense systems prevented another attack by Ukrainian armed forces on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

According to the authorities of the region, on the night of August 11, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to shell the territory of the ZNPP and Energodar from MLRS, heavy artillery, and also with the help of attack drones.