“The reactor is constantly in need of cooling… Several dozen shots were fired precisely at the cooling office… It is not protected like the reactor,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying on the air of Solovyov.Live.

Rogov added that the exit of the cooling system would cause the reactor to overheat.

“Then, in fact, it will already be a real nuclear bomb, then the reactor will simply explode,” he summed up.

Rogov also said that the nuclear reactor of the Zaporozhye NPP is firmly protected, it can withstand a plane crash from a height of 10 km.