MELITOPOL, March 3. /TASS/. Director of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) Yury Chernichuk has slammed Ukraine’s artillery attack on the plant’s satellite city of Energodar as an indirect violation of the local ceasefire that was declared to repair a power line feeding the facility.
"Whereas we cannot say that this was a direct violation of the regime of silence by the Ukrainian side, but, indirectly, it was indeed a violation of the ceasefire between us," he said in a video address posted on the ZNPP’s Telegram channel.
According to Chernichuk, although the site struck by Ukrainian troops is located far from the zone covered by the local ceasefire, the plant’s employees and workers engaged in repair operations, as well as their families are residents of this city. Therefore, the Ukrainian attack affected them in this or that way.
He recalled that the agreement on a temporary ceasefire was reached between Russia and Ukraine with the mediation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to repair the Ferrosplavnaya-1 power line that was damaged in Ukraine’s attack on Fenruary 10.
By attacking the nuclear plant’s satellite city, the Kiev regime sought to exert "colossal psychological pressure" on the city residents, the nuclear power plant’s employees, and specialists involved in repair works, the plant’s director stressed.
