MOSCOW
\nUkrainian drones attacked two facilities at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine overnight on Monday, but there is no threat to nuclear safety, the head of Russia\u2019s state nuclear corporation said.
\nAlexei Likhachev, director general of Rosatom, said a driver delivering food for plant employees was killed in the drone attack. According to Likhachev, a laboratory building and a radioactive waste processing plant were the targets. Ukraine has not commented on \u200cthe incident.
\nOn \u200cSaturday, the plant\u2019s management said Ukrainian \u200cshelling over \u2060recent weeks had \u2060damaged external power supply equipment at the plant, with electricity currently being provided by emergency diesel generators.
\nThe plant produces no electricity but needs power supplied by two external links to keep nuclear fuel cool.Russia seized the plant, Europe\u2019s largest with six reactors, in the first weeks \u2060of the war that began with \u200cMoscow\u2019s February 2022 invasion of \u200cits smaller neighbor.
\nMoscow and Kyiv have since regularly accused each \u200cother of military action that compromises nuclear safety. The International \u200cAtomic Energy Agency, the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog, has repeatedly acted to secure a ceasefire around the plant to have repairs carried out to lines connecting the plant to the main \u200cpower grid.
\nUN monitors are stationed at the Zaporizhzhia plant and three others operating in \u2060Ukraine. Russian Foreign \u2060Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, writing on her ministry\u2019s website, accused the West of enabling Ukrainian attacks by failing to condemn them publicly.
\n\u201cKyiv\u2019s intensification of shelling the Zaporizhzhia plant has been made possible by the lack of an appropriate response to such actions from Western countries, which are effectively facilitating new attacks,\u201d Zakharova wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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