Kyiv has denied involvement in the April 7 attack on the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that three drones hit the facility but did not assign blame for the attack. The IAEA said that while the strike did not compromise nuclear safety, it had the potential to undermine the reactor's containment system.
The war with Russia has devastated Ukraine s energy infrastructure, but the country is making a wartime push towards renewable energy sources like solar and wind power.
A 67-year-old woman was killed and a 68-year-old man was hospitalized with shrapnel injuries in yet another Russian kamikaze drone attack on Nikopol, the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration’s (OVA) head Serhiy Lysak reported on Facebook on Nov. 10.
Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi in New York to discuss the situation at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and continued Ukraine-IAEA cooperation, the Ukraine’s MFA said in a statement on Sept. 19.
Even the “worst case scenario” at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant or ZNPP will not pose a radiation hazard to the civilian population, the American Nuclear Society or ANS said in a report on July 5.