NGOs warn Zaporizhzhia plant at high risk of nuclear accident
Officials from two Ukrainian NGOs described the current situation at the Russian-occupied plant during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. The groups examine Russian war crimes based on satellite imagery and interviews with relevant persons.
Their news conference came after the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that all external power lines supplying electricity to the plant were down for several hours on Friday.
The NGOs said they are investigating what caused the outage. The groups, however, said they are aware that the outage coincided with air raid alarms in the region.
The organizations warned that the Zaporizhzhia plant is at a heightened risk of an accident. They said that its personnel have been tortured and that Russian troops have militarized the plant, placing their weapons in and around the compound.
The NGOs said they have identified seven locations in the vicinity of the plant where nuclear engineers and civilians were tortured by Russian forces. They said some of them were tortured by electric shock.
An NGO official said Russia's military infringes on human rights and is threatening nuclear safety. The official stressed the need for the entire international community to consider how to response to war crimes committed by Russia's military, as well as to address a possible nuclear accident.
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