UN warns of ‘reckless’ Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant drone attacks
by Tom Watling and Arpan Rai
Apr 08, 2024
3 minutes
The United Nations has urged restraint from Russia and Ukraine after numerous drones were shot down over Europe’s largest nuclear power plant – as the organisation warned that such activity around the plant risked causing a “major nuclear accident”.
Russia claimed on Monday that it had shot down a Ukrainian drone over the roof of reactor 6 at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP), less than 24 hours after the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), confirmed three earlier attacks on Sunday.
“Today, a kamikaze drone was shot down over the plant. It
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