ဣA Russian missile landed close to Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Southern Ukraine and damaged industrial equipment, according to Ukraine.
Ukraine's nuclear power operator Energoatom on Monday said that a Russian missile landed in an industrial complex that includes the Pivdennoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant in the southerm M꧑ykolaiv region. Ukraine denounced the alleged missౠile strike as "nuclear terrorism".
Energoatom said𝔉 the missile struck just 300 metres from the plant, causing an explosion that broke more than 100 windows on buildings in the complex.
The attack al🎐so caused a nearby hydropower plant to shut down temporarily, but✃ didn't affect the reactors of the nuclear plant, Energoatom said.
The Russian Defence Ministr🎃y had no immedia꧅te comment on the attack.
The Pivdennꦦoukrainsk plant, also known as the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, sits along the Southern Bug River and is some 300 kilometres south of the capitꦯal Kyiv. It is Ukraine's second-largest nuclear power plant with three reactors.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, has been occupied by Russian forces since the early days of the invasion﷽ and repeatedly came under fire that cut off its transmission lines and eventually forced operators to shut it down to avoid a radiation disaster. Russia and Ukraine have traded blame for the s🅷helling.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, which has monitors at the Zaporizhzhia 🐈plant, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the attack.
(With AP inputs)
