Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant: Ukrainian Drone Attacks Unit 6 Motor Room

On May 30, Xinhua News Agency reported from Moscow that the management of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant announced via social media that a Ukrainian drone attacked an electrical room of the No. 6 generator unit at the nuclear power plant on the same day. Fortunately, there were no casualties or serious damage.

The report stated that all systems at the nuclear power plant are currently operating normally, and the operational procedures within the plant have not been disrupted. The radiation levels in the plant area and its monitoring zone are normal. Plant professionals are conducting inspections of the attacked location, and the situation has been fully controlled.

The report emphasized that such attacks on nuclear facilities are extremely irresponsible and pose a threat to nuclear safety. "Any attack on nuclear power plant facilities could lead to unpredictable consequences and pose dangers to the surrounding areas."

According to a report by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti on the 30th, citing the words of the CEO of the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, Alexey Likhachev, a Ukrainian suicide drone attacked an electrical room of the No. 6 generator unit at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and detonated, resulting in a hole in the wall of the electrical room, but the main equipment in the room was not damaged. The head of communications at the nuclear power plant, Yakhina, stated to the media that the attacked location is only a few meters away from the reactor hall of the nuclear power plant.

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is one of the largest nuclear power plants in Europe. After the escalation of the Ukraine crisis in February 2022, Russian forces took control of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Since then, the plant has been subjected to multiple shelling or drone attacks, raising concerns in the international community about its safety.