Russian navy that captured Zaporizhzhia NPP use the territory of the plant as their navy base.
“Two crops have been seized: Chornobyl NPP from the very starting of hostilities and Zaporizhzhia NPP has been seized for about 9 days. The invader is on the territory of our ZNPP, there are about 50 items of heavy gear on the territory and as much as 500 troopers. One other 1,000 troopers and 400 items of kit are close to the city of Enerhodar in a unit that belongs to a thermal energy plant – a standard coal-fired station. Actually, the invaders are actually utilizing the territory of the plant as their navy base,” Head of the Nationwide Nuclear Power Producing Firm of Ukraine “Energoatom” Petro Kotin mentioned, an Ukrinform correspondent stories.
In keeping with him, the nuclear energy plant is properly guarded in peacetime, there are CCTVs, many services that are actually utilized by the invaders, together with a bomb shelter. “In case of a radiation accident, based on the emergency plan, the employees takes shelter. There are locations the place you’ll be able to stand, the place to feed, and so they use all this to safe their infrastructure,” Kotin mentioned.
He reminded that on the night time of March 4, when the ZNPP was captured, the enemy hit Energy Unit 1 with heavy gear, destroyed the coaching heart, and broken the executive constructing. On the similar time, “ZNPP has lots of nuclear materials as a result of the plant has 6 energy items, it’s the largest in Europe,” he harassed.
The top of Energoatom additionally famous that after the seize of ZNPP, the invaders supposed to determine management over the South-Ukraine NPP, however the Ukrainian navy stopped them.
As reported, Russian troops captured ZNPP on the night time of March 4. The plant was stormed by an enemy column, which consisted of about 100 items of kit.
In the course of the assault, 3 Ukraine’s Nationwide Guard officers had been killed and two extra had been injured.
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