The head of the Moscow nuclear power plant says that “you have to be a complete idiot” to blow up the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine.
Denying Ukraine’s claims that Moscow planned to blow up a Russian-occupied power plant, Oleksiy Likhachev said that only an “idiot” would do such a reckless act, Reuters reports.
Likhachev, the general director of the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom, said on state television: “Those who wanted to stage some kind of provocation there have been exposed.”
“You have to be a complete idiot to blow up a nuclear power plant that employs 3,500 people, including a very significant number of people from all over Russia,” he said, according to Sky News.
Kyiv said Russian forces planned to blow up a power plant they seized shortly after the invasion began last year.
Nuclear energy experts have repeatedly raised safety concerns, fearing a potential nuclear disaster from bombing near the plant.
The UN watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said yesterday that it had not spotted any mines or explosives during its inspection, although it said it expected to gain access to the roofs of reactors No. 3 and No. 4.
The IAEA has repeatedly stated that the plant cannot be used to store or base heavy weapons.
Likhachev said that Russian intelligence and information obtained from captured Ukrainian prisoners indicated that Ukraine did have plans to attack the nuclear plant, while repeatedly blaming Russia for the attack.
Reuters could not confirm the claims of either side.
The Ukrainian military assessed last Thursday that “tensions are easing” around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian troops in southern Ukraine, after several days during which the two camps accused each other of an imminent provocation, AFP reports.
“The tension is gradually decreasing” as a result of the “powerful work” of the Ukrainian army and diplomats, as well as “our foreign partners who are putting pressure” on Russia, said Nataliya Humenyuk, spokeswoman for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south. in front.
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