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The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

Moscow affirms that the Zaporizhia plant is at "risk of a nuclear accident" and accuses Ukraine of considering it "acceptable"

The CEO of the Russian state atomic energy company, Alexei Likhachev, warned on Monday of the risk of a nuclear disaster at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, the largest in Europe and under the control of Russian troops, after the new bombardments of the last weekend.

"We are informing the international community that the plant is at risk of a nuclear disaster and Kyiv clearly believes that a small nuclear incident would be acceptable," he told reporters in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, according to reports official the Russian news agency, TASS.

"However, radiation will not ask Kyiv what kind of incident it wants. It will be a precedent that will change the course of history forever. Therefore, everything possible must be done to ensure that no one can even think of damaging the safety of nuclear power plants," Likhachev said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) denounced this Sunday's bombardments with impacts very close to the Zaporizhia atomic power plant, in southern Ukraine, which it considers "unacceptable", although so far they have not caused critical damage to the safety of the installations.

IAEA director general Mariano Grossi said in a statement that both Saturday night and Sunday morning there were "strong explosions" in the vicinity of the nuclear power plant.

The Russian Defense Ministry indicated the day before that on Saturday the artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 11 large-caliber shells on the territory of the plant and that on Sunday morning Ukrainian troops fired twice against the perimeter of the plant from the town of Marganets, in the Kyiv-controlled Dnipropetrovsk region.

Three of the 14 projectiles launched on Sunday hit between the fourth and fifth reactor, and one hit the roof of technical building number two, according to the military institution.

"That should arouse great concern in the IAEA and we see that they are concerned. We call on them and the countries of the world to use their influence to get the Ukrainian armed forces to stop doing it," the spokesman said on Monday. of the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, in his daily press conference.