Satellite Images Show New Objects on Roof of Zaporizhzhia Power Plant
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Satellite images taken on July 5 showed new objects on the roof of the fourth power unit of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
On July 4, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country’s intelligence services had information that Russian troops had placed objects resembling explosives on the roof of several power units of the plant.
The next day, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Director General, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said in a statement that the organization’s experts had conducted inspections of the facility in recent days, including regular walkdowns across the site, and did not observe any visible indications of mines or explosives.
Following the release of the satellite imagery, Petro Kotin, the head of Energoatom, Ukraine’s state-run nuclear energy firm, said on Thursday that the objects located on the roof of the fourth power unit “may indicate that there may be explosives on the roof.”
Kotin said: “Of course, given the quality of the photo, it is impossible to say for sure. But the man-made disaster they created at the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam means we are very worried that they can do the same thing at the ZNPP.”
Kotin said Russian Armed Forces had already placed “machine gun nests … on the roofs of several power units.”
The nature of the objects on the roof has not been independently determined or verified. Credit: Planet Labs PBC via Storyful
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