IAEA Raises Concerns after Ukraine’s
Drone Attack on Zaparozhye Power Plant
Al Mayadeen English

(April 9, 2024) —This latest attack follows a similar incident on Sunday, reflecting a recurring trend that has raised concerns among IAEA leadership regarding the potential for a nuclear disaster.

A drone attack on the training center building at the Zaporizhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) raised alarm on Tuesday, prompting concerns from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about the safety and security of the facility.

This latest attack follows a similar incident on Sunday, reflecting a recurring trend that has raised concerns among IAEA leadership regarding the potential for a nuclear disaster.

The plant’s press service said on Tuesday that a Ukrainian armed forces drone has attacked the roof of a building with a unique training center of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), but no one was injured.

“The unique training center of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was attacked. A Ukrainian armed forces drone hit the roof of the ZNPP training center building, where the world’s only full-scale reactor hall simulator is located. No one was injured as a result of the attack,” the press service wrote on Telegram.

According to Evgenia Yashina, communications director of the plant, the attack occurred just 10 minutes after representatives of the IAEA monitoring mission had passed by the building. The drone strike targeted the training center where plant employees undergo training and practice technological operations.

Fortunately, no employees or equipment at the center were harmed in the attack.

Ukrainian Troops Target Nuclear
Reactors with Three Drone Attacks
TASS News Service

UNITED NATIONS (April 8, 2024) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shares the IAEA’s concern over the attack by the Ukrainian armed forces on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric told a briefing.

“I can tell you that the secretary-general shares the concern raised by Rafael Grossi,” the IAEA director general, regarding the drone strikes hitting the nuclear power plant, he said.

Ukrainian troops targeted the nuclear power plant with drones three times on April 7. The cargo port area and the canteen located on the premises of the ZNPP were hit. A truck unloading food was damaged. Three people were injured. Also, one of the Ukrainian UAVs hit the dome of the plant’s sixth power unit. On April 8, a kamikaze drone was again shot down over the ZNPP, the wreckage of the drone fell on the dome of Unit 6.