“Currently, radiation levels are within norm,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X which included a video. “As long as the Russian terrorists maintain control over the nuclear plant, the situation is not and cannot be normal.”
“Since the first day of its seizure, Russia has been using the Zaporizhzhia NPP only to blackmail Ukraine, all of Europe, and the world,” he added.
There is widespread concern about the safety of the plant, which is located on the southern bank of the Dnipro River around 50 kilometres southwest of Zaporizhzhia.
“Two years of war are weighing heavily on nuclear safety at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in April, after Russia attacked the facility for the first time during the war.
“These reckless attacks must cease immediately.”
The IAEA on Sunday directed POLITICO to an X post in which it noted “strong dark smoke” coming from Zaporizhzhia plant on Sunday. It said it had been told there was a drone attack on one of the site’s cooling towers, adding: “No impact has been reported for nuclear safety.”