The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, warned that there is a great danger of a nuclear accident at the Ukrainian power plant in Zaporozhye.
He strongly condemned the recent attacks on that power plant and its surroundings.
The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which has been occupied by Russia since March 2022, is located in southern Ukraine and has suffered a series of drone attacks since April 7, with Moscow and Kiev blaming each other for the attacks.
"Those reckless attacks," the first to directly target Europe's largest power plant since November 2022, "must stop immediately," Grossi said during a United Nations Security Council meeting dedicated to the issue.
"Although this time, fortunately, they did not cause a radiation incident, those attacks greatly increased the risk at the Zaporozhye power plant, where nuclear safety is already at risk," Grossi said.
Grossi said the attacks set a "dangerous precedent, as they successfully reached the protective structure of the reactor".
"We are getting dangerously close to a nuclear accident," Grossi said, adding that the world must not gamble on the matter.
According to him, even if all the plant's reactors are shut down, "the potential danger of a major nuclear accident remains very real."
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