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30 May 2026, 20:58 GMT+10
It is the first time nuclear power plant key equipment has ever been purposely targeted, Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachev has said
The Ukrainian military attacked Russia's Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), puncturing a hole in the machine hall of one of the facility's units, Aleksey Likhachev, CEO of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has said.
The ZNPP - which has repeatedly been attacked by Kiev forces over the past years - came under a new attack on Saturday, with a fiber-optics-guided drone making it to the machine hall of the sixth power unit of the plant. Given that such munitions are guided by their operators until the impact, the strike was carried out deliberately, and any "theories of an accidental hit" can be ruled out, Likhachev stated.
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