
This handout photograph taken and released by Ukrainian Emergency Service on February 14, 2025 shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC), which protects the remains of reactor 4 of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant following a drone attack on its cover built to contain radiation. — AFP
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Kiev: Ukrainian President Wolodmeer Zelannsky on Friday alleged that a Russian drone had targeted a radiation emitted from the Chenobal Nuclear Power Plant, adding that the radiation level was normal.
Russia has denied the Ukrainian leader’s allegation that Zilnsky’s claim that a Russian drone had hit the cranobel plant, Kiev made more aid to the Western world and blackmail There is a “staging provocative” by side.
Zelinsky had said that a drone has done a lot of damage to the radiation prisoner in the plant, but after the incident, the level of radiation is normal, which was assembled by the US, Ukrainian and European officials at the Munich security conference. So that the war can be discussed. Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Maria Zakharova, has accused Zelannski of orching the alleged drone strike as part of a lobbying attempt to secure more weapons and money from the West as part of a lobbying. Be according to the incident.
“There was never any doubt that Zelinski would not come empty -handed at the Munich conference […] The Kiev government’s hands should always be engaged in some children’s flags to attract the attention of the conference participants. Zakarova told a news briefing in Moscow.
“Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that this is provocation? There is no doubt that it needs to be lobby for the supply of weapons and the performance of the global people. A terrible, bloody and extremely dangerous. Performance, “he said, accusing Kiev. To use a nuclear plant for “blackmail”.
The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia launched 133 drones across the country overnight – including drones of the attack – targeting the northern parts of the country, where the Chenobal Power Plant is.
“Last night, a Russian attack drone targeted the core to protect the world from radiation in the destroyed fourth power unit of the Corneobal Nuclear Power Plant with a high -imposed warhead,” Zelinsky said in a social media post. “
These comments came to Zilnski just hours before meeting US Vice President JD Venus in Germany to present a Ukrainian case before a new US administration, who wanted to end the almost three -year war quickly. –
Zillski said, “The attack is proof that Russian President Vladimir” Putin is definitely not preparing for talks – he is preparing to continue the world “.
In the CCTV footage posted by the Ukrainian leader, the footage exploded on the side of the Cherminobelo structure, which had a time stamp 02:02 AM (0002 GMT).
The Kremlin rejected that its army had targeted Ukraine’s nuclear structure.
“There is no question of any strike on such nuclear infrastructure sites,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin. Keep “precise information” about the hit reported on Chennobal.
Zelinski’s video also showed a small fire and holes in the roof, and firefighters used a hose to extinguish the fire from inside the dome.
He said that the drone flew at the height of 85 meters (yards), which could not be detected by the radar.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has also reported “blast” on the site, saying that “the level of radiation inside and outside is normal and stable.”
The agency, which has deployed a team in Chennobal since the early stages of the Russian invasion, posted photos in which the drone appears to be on fire.
The IAEA has repeatedly warned the dangers of fighting around nuclear plants after a full -fledged military attack in Ukraine in February 2022.