The russian military has again shelled the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant site, with missiles hitting near the dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, Ukraine's atomic energy company Energoatom has said.
The missiles aimed at the spent nuclear fuel containers that are stored in the open air near the site of the shelling. These are 174 containers, each containing 24 spent nuclear fuel assemblies.
The russian strikes damaged three radiation meters around the site of the spent fuel containers. One employee sustained shrapnel wounds as a result of the blasts and was taken to a city hospital.
All 500 russian military servicemen deployed at the Zaporizhzhya NPP site since it was seized, as well as personnel of the russian atomic energy company Rosatom, hid in the plant's bunker rooms of the crisis centre and technical support centre in advance.
In addition to the plant, the occupiers also fired on the area near the building structures plant and at the water intake of the city of Energodar.
Energoatom said that the russian military bombarded the Zaporizhzhya NPP in order to destroy its infrastructure, disconnect it from the Ukrainian energy system and connect it to the russian one.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has called on Russia to grant the IAEA access to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.