The Kremlin on Monday accused Ukrainian forces of firing on the Zaporizhzhia atomic energy plant, warning of potential “catastrophic penalties” for Europe.
“The shelling of the territory of the nuclear plant by the Ukrainian armed forces is a doubtlessly extraordinarily harmful exercise… fraught with catastrophic penalties for an unlimited space, together with the territory of Europe,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instructed reporters.
He known as on Ukraine’s allies “to make use of their affect to forestall the continuation of such shelling.”
Russia’s Protection Ministry mentioned on Monday that the Ukrainian military broken a high-voltage energy line that gives electrical energy to close by areas.
The ministry added {that a} “energy surge” befell on the station, inflicting smoke in a switchgear, used to guard electrical tools.
Firefighters on the scene have been in a position to cease the smoke, the ministry mentioned.
Moscow and Kyiv have blamed one another for strikes on the atomic energy plant, the place current combating sparked a UN warning of a possible nuclear catastrophe.
Zaporizhzhia — Europe’s largest atomic energy complicated that was occupied by Russia early in its offensive — has in current days been the scene of navy strikes which have broken a number of buildings, forcing the shutdown of a reactor.
