Ukraine tried to attack Russian nuclear power plant – Putin — RT Russia and former Soviet Union

“Last night the enemy tried to strike the nuclear power plant,” Putin said this at a cabinet meeting on Thursday afternoon. “The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been informed. They have promised to come themselves and send specialists to assess the situation. I hope they will do so.”

The IAEA has already deployed observers to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the largest such facility in Europe. The mission was deployed in the summer of 2023, as Ukrainian troops attempted to seize the plant. Earlier this month, a Ukrainian drone attack set one of the plant’s cooling towers on fire.

Rosatom Director General Alexei Likhachev discussed the situation at the two plants with IAEA Director Rafael Grossi and invited him to visit Kursk to personally assess the situation, Russian media reported.

Grossi accepted the invitation and plans to travel to Kursk next week, an IAEA spokesman told AFP. He will then travel to kyiv and hold talks with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky.
According to Grossi, the IAEA is very concerned about any combat operations near the Kursk nuclear power plant, because it operates the same type of reactors as the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant.