MELITOPOL, April 7. /TASS/. Ukraine’s armed forces have delivered a strike on a dome of the 6th power unit of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) with no critical damage or injuries, the facility’s Telegram channel reported.
"An attack was carried out on the dome of the 6th power unit of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. There were no critical damage or injuries. No threat to security limits was registered," its statement said.
It was specified that the radiation background at the nuclear power plant remains within normal limits.
Located in Energodar, the Zaporozhye nuclear facility, with roughly 6GW of capacity, is the largest of its kind in Europe. Russia took control of the plant on February 28, 2022, in the first days of its special military operation in Ukraine. Since then, units of the Ukrainian army have periodically conducted shelling both of residential districts in nearby Energodar and the premises of the nuclear plant itself, by means of drones, heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS). In most cases, air defense systems repel the attacks, although several times shells hit infrastructure facilities and the vicinity of a nuclear waste storage depot. In order to protect the ZNPP against shelling attacks, engineering structures, forming a safety net of sorts, have been built on its premises.