Russia Planning Terror Attack to Release Radiation from Occupied Ukrainian Nuclear Plant: Sources
- Ukrainian intelligence has received information about a potential terrorist attack with radiation leakage at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine.
- Russian forces currently occupy the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex, Europe's biggest nuclear plant.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that radiation from an attack would have devastating consequences regardless of borders or wind direction.
- Zelensky referenced a previous Russian plot to blow up the Kakhovka dam, which provided cooling water to the Zaporizhzhia plant before its destruction.
- The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog will meet with Russian nuclear authorities, but concerns remain over the plant's security and sustainability.