September 19, 2022, 8:51 AM
September 19, 2022, 8:51 AM
“On September 19, 2022, at 00:20 local time (21:20 GMT on Sunday), the Russian Army bombed the industrial zone of the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant,” Energoatom said on Telegram.
“A powerful explosion occurred just 300 meters from the reactors,” he added. “Currently, the three reactors at the plant are operating regularly,” assured the public operator, who specified that the bombing did not cause deaths or injuries.
The bombardment shattered the glass of a hundred windows in the building of the power plant, whose name translates as South Ukraine.
In addition, one of the hydraulic units of the Oleksandrivska hydroelectric power plant, which is part of the South Ukraine energy complex, went out and three high-voltage power lines also fell.
Energoatom adds that currently the three power units of the plant, located in the Mykolaiv region, are operating normally and stresses that “fortunately there were no casualties among plant personnel.”
The energy company warns that the “acts of nuclear terrorism” committed by Russian troops “threaten the entire world” and urges that they stop immediately “to avoid a new disaster.”
Along the same lines, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskycommenting on the shelling of the industrial zone of the South Ukraine nuclear power plant.
“The occupants wanted to fire again, but they forgot what a nuclear power plant is. Russia is endangering the whole world. We have to stop her before it’s too late,” she stressed in a message on Telegram, collected by the Ukrinform agency.
Another Ukrainian nuclear power plant, that of Zaporizhia, occupied by Russian troops, it was bombed several times in recent months. kyiv and Moscow accused each other of the bombing of the Zaporizhia plant and of risking causing a nuclear accident.
