MELITOPOL, April 7. /TASS/. Ukrainian kamikaze drones struck the area of the cargo port and canteen located on the territory of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the plant’s management reported.
"Today a kamikaze drone hit the area of the canteen located on the territory of the ZNPP. A truck unloading food was damaged. Twenty minutes before the drone attack, IAEA experts made their rounds in this area in accordance with the plan. Another drone was recorded in the area of the cargo port," the statement posted on the plant’s Telegram channel said.
The ZNPP management pointed out that "the shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP and its infrastructure is unacceptable". "No nuclear power plant in the world is designed to withstand full-scale fire from the armed forces. Damage to infrastructure facilities is capable of affecting the safe operation of the NPP," the statement said.
Employees of the ZNPP and experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency staying at the plant were not injured in the Ukrainian kamikaze drone attacks. There is no threat to the plant’s safety, the radiation background is normal, Yevgeniya Yashina, the ZNPP's communications director, told TASS.
"There is no threat to the safety of the plant. Neither the plant’s employees nor the IAEA experts were harmed. The radiation background at the plant and the adjacent territory has not changed and is at the level corresponding to the normal operation of the power units and does not exceed the natural background values," she said.
The ZNPP, located in Energodar, has six power units with a total capacity of 6 GW. It is Europe‘s largest nuclear power generating facility. At the end of February 2022, the facility was taken over by Russian forces. Since then, Ukrainian army units have periodically shelled both residential areas in Energodar and the plant itself using drones, heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers.