The Largest Nuclear Power Plant In Europe Is Fired Again, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Mentions Russian Nuclear Terror

Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. (Wikimedia Commons/Maxim Gavrilyuk)

JAKARTA - Three radiation sensors were damaged and a worker was injured in the shooting by Russia on Sunday of Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Saturday night's shooting a "Russian nuclear terror" that warrants more international sanctions, this time on Moscow's nuclear sector.

"No country like that in the world can feel safe when a terrorist state fires at a nuclear power plant," President Zelensky said in a televised address Sunday.

However, the Russian-based authority in the area said Ukrainian forces hit the site with multiple rocket launchers, damaging administrative buildings and areas near storage facilities. Reuters was unable to verify the versions of either party.

It is known that the shooting at the Zaporizhzhia site, in which Kyiv previously alleged that Russia hit a power line on Friday, has alarmed the world.

"(This) underscores the very real risk of a nuclear catastrophe," the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi warned on Saturday.