Russian nuclear company reports attack on Zaporizhzhia plant [Video]

Russia’s nuclear power corporation, Rosatom, accused Ukraine’s military on Sunday of launching a series of attacks on the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station and the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog called for such incidents to cease immediately.

Rosatom said three people were hurt, one seriously. Russia urged world leaders to denounce the incidents. Both Russian officials and the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, said radiation levels were normal and damage not severe.

A Ukrainian intelligence official said Kyiv had nothing to do with any strikes on the station, the largest in Europe, and suggested they were the work of Russians themselves.

Reuters was unable immediately to verify battlefield accounts from either side.

Russian troops seized the plant in the first weeks of the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Each side accuses the other of attacking the plant, which lies close to the front lines of the 25-month-old conflict, and risking a nuclear …