MELITOPOL, April 11. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military continues to deploy drones frequently near the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the facility’s Spokesperson Yevgeniya Yashina told TASS.
"The activity [of the Ukrainian army’s drones] is not decreasing," she said.
Yashina told TASS on April 10 that an air attack alert was in effect for the ZNPP and that Ukrainian drones could be seen hovering over the neighboring city of Energodar.
The Ukrainian armed forces have been carrying out drone attacks on the nuclear plant almost daily over the past several days. On April 5, the Ukrainian army used drones to strike a cargo port and the Nitrogen-Oxygen Station No. 2 at the ZNPP. Critical infrastructure was not damaged and the operation of the station’s systems was not disrupted. On April 7, Ukrainian forces conducted three drone attacks on the ZNPP, leaving three people injured. One of the unmanned aerial vehicles hit the roof of the facility’s Power Unit 6. On April 8, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone was shot down over the ZNPP with its fragments falling onto the roof of Power Unit 6. On April 9, the power plant’s press service said that the building hosting the world’s only full-scale reactor hall simulator had come under attack.
The six-reactor, six-gigawatt Zaporozhye NPP, located in the city of Energodar, is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Russian forces took control of the facility in late February 2022. Since then, the Ukrainian army has periodically shelled both residential areas in Energodar and the premises of the power plant using drones, heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS).