A Ukrainian drone struck a passage connecting the six reactor units at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant overnight, the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Saturday.
The drone hit a gallery used by personnel to move between the plant’s six power units, Alexey Likhachev said in a statement published by Rosatom on Telegram.
“Fortunately, there was no explosion. The strike occurred just a few meters from the reactor compartment of Unit 3,” he said of the facility, located in Russian-controlled southeastern Ukraine.
The official added that Ukrainian forces had also tried to strike the plant’s dry spent nuclear fuel storage facility last week.
Likhachev said the plant is currently receiving electricity through a single 330-kilovolt transmission line after a second line, which he said had been repaired by Russian crews in June, had not been reconnected.
He also said the nearby city of Enerhodar, where most plant employees live, has faced repeated drone and artillery attacks in recent days, disrupting electricity and water supplies.
