“During a walkdown on 23 July, IAEA experts have observed directional anti-personnel mines on the periphery of the site of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Director General Rafael Grossi said today.”
Ukraine’s been warning about the situation for a long while.
As per this IAEA article, the situation is different.
They are still in the same spot requesting access to the roofs of reactor 3 and 4 to check for explosive charges there. These are the roofs we have seen on satellite images a few weeks ago with possible objects on the roofs. Nobody knows what it is and if these objects are still there. As Russia is denying access, this is highly suspicious.
But otherwise during the IAEA inspection, they did not find any mines or explosives in the areas they had access to within the plant or its inner perimeter.
The mines mentioned in the Lemmy title are these:
“During a walkdown on 23 July, the IAEA team saw some mines located in a buffer zone between the site’s internal and external perimeter barriers. The experts reported that they were situated in a restricted area that operating plant personnel cannot access and were facing away from the site.” “[…] IAEA’s initial assessment based on its own observations and the plant’s clarifications is that any detonation of these mines should not affect the site’s nuclear safety and security systems.”
We still don’t know what’s placed on the roofs until the IAEA gets access. But I would imagine the roofs will be empty the moment Russia allows the IAEA to inspect them.
Specially after Chernobyl you’d think that even (or specially) the Russians would be sensible enough to not mess around with a f*ing nuclear power plant, but here we are.
dude they camped in the radiation zone of chernobyl when first invading. i put nothing past russians these days.
You assume that the state ever took responsibility for their role in Chernobyl. To them that was all someone else’s fault just as it will be Ukraine/NATO’s fault for setting off the mines and not bending a knee to Russia’s demands. Real-world logic doesn’t make sense to them, never has.
