On Thursday, a video began circulating on social media showing several Russian military trucks parked in an engine room connected to a nuclear reactor at the Zaporizhzhia plant, where recent explosions have worried the world and are blamed on each other by Russia and Ukraine.

Russian trucks are parked inside the Zaporizhzhya plant near the nuclear reactorPhoto: Twitter video

The American TV channel CNN carried out geolocation and confirmed that the video recording of Russian military equipment on the territory of Zaporizhzhya plant is authentic, but they could not determine when it was taken.

Images widely shared on social media show one of six turbine cameras attached to one of the nuclear reactors at the plant seized by the Russians in March.

According to CNN, the five vehicles in the footage appear to be Russian trucks, one of which has a Z symbol on it, and are parked about 130 meters from the nuclear reactor.

Russia maintains that it did not store weapons at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, while Kyiv has repeatedly accused troops sent by Putin to Ukraine of storing weapons inside the nuclear complex and launching attacks from there.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday that Russia’s military presence at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is a safeguard against what he called a “Chernobyl scenario,” referring to the 1986 nuclear disaster, Reuters reported.

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