The authorities of the Ukrainian province of Kharkiv has denounced this Sunday the impact of projectiles launched by Russian forces about the National Research Center of the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, where there are a nuclear reactor experimental.
“On March 6, the Russian Army fired a rocket launcher at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology where there is a nuclear research facility,” the Kharkov branch of the Ukrainian secret services (SBU) reported.
In the place there 37 nuclear fuel cellswhich could cause “an ecological catastrophe on a large scale”, warns the SBU, for which a criminal investigation has been opened for a crime of ecocide under Article 441 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code.
The SBU has underlined that it continues to collect information for later presentation in The Hague, seat of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
UN says Russia puts Zaporizhia’s security at risk
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned today that a Russian soldier is now directing the technical management of the Zaporizhia nuclear plantbombed and taken by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine, which contravenes basic principles for its safe operation.
“The management of the plant is now under the orders of the commander of the Russian forces who took control of the place last week,” reported the director general of this UN body, Argentine Rafael Grossi.
Grossi showed his “serious concern” for a change that, he warned, contravenes essential pillars of nuclear safety, by limiting the ability of technical personnel to “make decisions free from undue pressure.”
Source: Lasexta
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