The Russian invaders openly admit that the captured Zaporozhye nuclear power plant will be used by them for nuclear blackmail.

“There will be either Russian land or a scorched desert,” said Valery Vasiliev, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the RF Armed Forces, commander of the ZNPP garrison..

Speaking to his subordinates, Vasiliev recalled that the invaders had mined all the important facilities of the station, and hinted at a readiness to blow it up when trying to storm the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“As you know, we mined all the important facilities of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. And we don't hide it from the enemy. We warned them. The enemy knows that the station will be either Russian - or no one's. We are ready for the consequences of this step,” the occupant said..

The life of the personnel, who will certainly die when executing the order, does not bother the invader at all.

“You, warrior-liberators, must understand that we have no other way. And if there is the toughest order, we must fulfill it with honor! "

[see_also ids\u003d"

On August 5-7, the invaders fired several times at the industrial site of the nuclear power plant, damaging the high-voltage line of the autotransformer, the nitrogen-oxygen station? and joint auxiliary building. After the shelling, it was necessary to unload and turn off the fourth power unit.

The occupiers are purposefully destroying the station’s connections with the Ukrainian energy system in order to leave the south of Ukraine without electricity, explained at Energoatom.

The head of the IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, called hostilities near and directly on the territory of the nuclear power plant unacceptable, the organization is ready to send a security mission, but the consent of Ukraine and the Russian Federation is needed.