On July 14, an unmanned aerial vehicle fell and exploded in the town of Kurchatov in the Kursk Region where the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant is located.

Thanks to the well-coordinated operation of the air defense forces protecting the station, critically important sites were not damaged.

No one was hurt. However, the probable target of Ukraine’s new provocation was exactly the NPP, which again testifies that the Kiev regime has embarked upon the path of using nuclear terrorism methods,” the diplomat said.

“We strongly condemn Ukraine’s malicious plans to actively use terrorist methods against Russian nuclear power plants, which could lead to the emergence of a large-scale catastrophe in Europe,” Zakharova stressed.

We call on the international community and the leadership of the International Atomic Energy Agency as well as the UN to pay the utmost attention to this issue and strongly condemn Kyiv’s irresponsible behavior, she concluded.

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