Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant faces unprecedented crisis – Ukraine’s intelligence

Russian troops placed equipment with explosives near 4 out of 6 power units of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, announced this in an interview with the British publication The New Statement, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate.

"The plan for a terrorist attack on the ZNPP has been fully developed and approved. They can use technical means to accelerate the disaster," Budanov said.

According to him, nuclear reactors without cooling can melt in a period from 10 hours to 14 days.

An increase in the voltage on the power supply lines to the station by the Russians can also lead to an accident at the ZNPP.

The head of Ukraine's intelligence stressed that Russian troops' were mining the cooling tank of the ZNPP and also informed about the placement of equipment filled with explosives by the occupiers near four of the six power units of the plant.

"The situation has never been as serious as it is now," he emphasized.

According to him, the order of the aggressor state to commit a terrorist attack on the ZNPP may have been caused by the defeat of Russian troops on the left bank of the Dnipro River. Russia considers creating a nuclear disaster zone as a safeguard against the further advancement of Ukraine's Security and Defense Forces.

At the same time, according to Budanov's assessment, there is a risk that Moscow may launch an attack on the nuclear power plant with a radiation leak as a "preventive measure" to stop Ukraine's offensive operation and freeze the front line in its current form.

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It should be noted that President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia is considering the scenario of a terrorist act at the Zaporizhia NPP and has prepared everything for this.

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