"Shahed" that attacked Chornobyl NPP was carrying at least 50 kg of explosives - Zelenskyy
The Russian army attacked the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant with a "Shahed" carrying at least 50 kg of explosives.
According to Censor.NET, this was stated by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a speech at the Munich Security Conference.
"On the night before Munich this year, a Russian attack drone struck the sarcophagus that covers the destroyed quadruple reactor of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. It was a modified Shahed drone, a Russian drone. The technology was transferred by Iran to Russia. Its combat unit carried at least 50 kg of explosives," the president said.
Russian strike on the sarcophagus of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant
As a reminder, President Zelenskyy said in the morning that a Russian attack drone with an explosive warhead hit the shelter of the 4th power unit of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant on the night of February 14.
The IAEA confirmed the drone strike on the protective sarcophagus of the fourth unit of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
The spokesman for the Russian dictator Dmitry Peskov denied that Russian troops had attacked the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called on the international community to force Russia to peace by force to prevent a global catastrophe after the Russian attack on the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko emphasized that the Shelter Arch had been severely damaged.
On the morning of February 15, SES rescuers continued to extinguish the fire of the filler of the outer cladding of the New Safe Confinement arch. No radiation leakage was recorded.
