Over the past few hours, Russia has fired at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant twice from multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), in total, on August 5, three “arrivals” were recorded at the station site. This is stated in the statement of the Ukrainian "Energoatom".

“Three “arrivals” were recorded right at the site of the station, near one of the power units where the nuclear reactor is located.”

As a result of the shelling, the nitrogen-oxygen station was damaged, the company said. Now the risk of hydrogen leakage and "spraying of radioactive substances", as well as fire, remains. Energoatom also claims that before the shelling, representatives of Rosatom left the station, as they probably knew that an attack was being prepared.

In the afternoon, the Russian military fell into the ZNPP high-voltage power line, as a result it was damaged, emergency protection worked at one of the power units, and diesel generators turned on, the report says.

At the same time, the pro-Russian authorities of the occupied Energodar accused Ukraine of shelling the ZNPP, all reports were transmitted by RIA Novosti.

Earlier, Energoatom stated that the Russian military was forcing ZNPP employees to drain the cooling pools. According to the agency, a provocation was being prepared: the Russians intend to accuse Ukrainian nuclear scientists of storing weapons on the territory of the station. To do this, they detained several workers and tortured them to confess that, allegedly back in March, they dropped some kind of weapon - explosives or shells - into the concrete bowls of the cooling pools at the ZNPP. In July, Andrei Goncharuk, a ZNPP hydroshop diver , died after being tortured by the Russian military, “forcing him to come up with a justification for the need to drain the cooling pools.”