Russia – Ukraine Nuclear Power Plants.
Russia has complained that the Ukraine attack into Russia, in August 2024, is close to their Nuclear Power Plant in the Kursk region. Fighting has taken place within about 40 km (25 miles) of the facility, which is one of the three largest nuclear facilities in Russia.
Russia has accused Ukraine of trying to attack the Kursk nuclear power station in what it called an act of “nuclear terrorism”.
The first time a military conflict occurred around the facilities of a large, established nuclear power station, was the Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in March 2022.
Obviously, in the Russian mindset, their own attack on the Ukrainian nuclear power station would be called a “Special Operation”, and not an act of “Nuclear Terrorism”.
On 8 August 2022, Ukrainian authorities said that Russian shelling had damaged three radiation sensors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
The Ukrainian delegation stated that Russia had staged shelling of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and that Russia used the plant to shell Ukrainian towns.
A video of Russian multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) firing from the site of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) was filmed on the night of 2nd to 3rd September 2022 The footage shows MLRSs in close proximity to a power unit.
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The Ukrainian delegation also supported a visit by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
On 15 September 2022, the IAEA Board of Governors passed a resolution calling on Russia to leave the power plant. The resolution was opposed by only 2 countries; Russia and China.
Russia refused the IAEA ruling.
In August 2024 the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned the Ukrainian attack into Kursk, calling it “an act of nuclear terrorism that warrants immediate action from the IAEA.”
Note: “Russia refused the IAEA ruling in 2022”.
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