The UN warns of new attacks on the Zaporizhia plant: "You are playing with fire!"

Even the UN is losing patience with the attacks on the Zaporizhia nuclear plant: "You are playing with fire!" warned Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Russians and Ukrainians blame each other for a situation deteriorating from the fighting.

"The news from our team on Saturday and this Sunday is extremely worrying," they explain from the IAEA.

Once again

where the largest nuclear plant in Europe is located.

Over the weekend "explosions occurred at the site of this important nuclear power plant, which is completely unacceptable," Grossi warned.

The area has been under the control of the Russian invaders since the beginning of the Russian incursion into Ukraine.

In October the Ukrainian Army attempted to retake the nuclear power plant.

Citing information provided by plant management, the IAEA team on the ground said there had been damage to some buildings, systems and equipment at the site,

so far.

Even so, the repeated bombing of the plant has raised concerns about the possibility of a serious accident.

The plant is only 500 kilometers from the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, Chernobyl.

A disaster that still conditions the lives of Ukrainians and Belarusians today despite the time that has elapsed since 1986.

As in previous attacks, both Russia and Ukraine

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In spite of everything, "the level of radiation in the area of ​​the plant continues to be in accordance with the norm," explains the Russian side.

The Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement, detailing that between Saturday and Sunday Ukrainian forces fired more than 20 "large-caliber projectiles."

The rockets exploded between energy blocks number 4 and 5 and hit the roof of a "special building" located near these blocks.

The Ukrainian nuclear agency instead accused the Russians of "once again" endangering "the whole world." impacts against the territory of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant," Energoatom said.

destroy ukrainian energy

From the beginning Moscow has seen the Zaporizhia plant

up despite the danger of colonizing an atomic enclave.

In a context in which Moscow already openly admits that it aspires to freeze and leave the Ukrainians in the dark, this nuclear power plant acquires an even more evident importance.

The Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant

before the Russian invasion on February 24.

Since the occupants arrived the plant has been forced to resort to standby generators several times.

Precisely that refrigeration fails is the recipe for a new Chernobyl.

The plant has six reactors designed in USSR times, cooled by water and containing uranium 235. All this has not prevented Ukraine from returning fire next to such a sensitive location.

Russia is destroying the country's energy infrastructure.

But Russia's Defense Ministry said this time it was Ukraine that fired shells at power lines feeding the Ukrainian nuclear power plant.

The Russians have been pointed out by the UN as guilty of the excesses at the plant on more than one occasion.

On the 5th, the external power supply was restored at the nuclear power plant two days after it was disconnected from the electricity grid.

The UN agency then confirmed that it was the Russian bombing that damaged the high voltage lines.

In line with his strategy of decimating the living conditions of Ukrainians.

Shelling has repeatedly cut power lines, and the Russians themselves have rehearsed disconnecting the nuclear power plant from the

Ukrainian

The reactors are shut down, but there is a risk of nuclear fuel overheating if power to the cooling systems is cut.

Shells had been fired near a nuclear waste storage facility and a building that houses used nuclear fuel, but no radioactive emissions have currently been detected, according to TASS.

In statements collected by Reuters, Renat Karchaa, adviser to the chief executive of the Ukrainian energy company Rosenergoatom, denounced that Russia had targeted the necessary infrastructure to reactivate parts of the plant in an attempt to further limit Ukraine's energy supply.

In the Zaporizhia region,

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Due to the "actions of the local occupation 'authorities'", the regional energy company Zaporiyiaoblenergo "does not have access to electricity networks and up-to-date information on their status" in several districts.

There are also problems with the water supply and sewerage in 33 towns in the area.

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