He stated this on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.
“At 14:15, a strike was made on the station, which is located next to the storage facility, they practically hit the nuclear waste storage facility in order to create some kind of dirty bomb on our territory,” Balitsky said.
He said that thousands of tons of radioactive waste are stored there.
In his opinion, Kyiv intends to make "the whole territory unsuitable for life."
According to Balitsky, in this regard, the administration of the Zaporozhye region has developed a plan that provides for actions up to the evacuation of residents, in case a similar situation occurs.
Also in the Zaporozhye region, they announced a normal radiation background after the shelling of a nuclear power plant by the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.