Kyiv: On Wednesday, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky refuted a Russian claim that Kiev had attempted to use a drone to attack the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP).
In the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, which is under Russian control and is close to the front lines of Russia's conflict with Kiev, the biggest nuclear plant in Europe is currently offline.
Without naming a specific source, the Russian state news agency RIA cited Russian security forces as saying that Ukraine attempted to attack a facility at the plant that stores spent nuclear fuel with a strike drone, but the drone was shot down.
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According to the adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, "Ukraine did not conduct any type of drone attack on the ZNPP, was not planning, and will not even in theory do so."
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The alleged downed drone, a quadcopter, was shown in a photo distributed by RIA, which claimed that security forces had deduced their conclusion from studying the drone's flight path.
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Renat Karchaa, an advisor to Rosenergoatom's general director, was later quoted by the Russian state news agency TASS as saying that the apparent target had actually been outside the nuclear compound.
According to the information we currently have, this drone was used to photograph other significant objects that were outside the Zaporizhzhia NPP, according to Karchaa.