‘No limit to what Putin willing to do’ as nuclear catastrophe fears grow after mines found
EXCLUSIVE: UN inspectors have discovered Europe’s largest nuclear plant is laden with explosives as Britain’s leading bio-weapons expert warns the Kremlin could plunge the continent into a radiation catastrophe.
There are “no limits” to what Vladimir Putin will do to cling to power and turn the tide of his war after United Nations (UN) inspectors found “anti-personnel mines” at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, according to the UK’s leading bio-weapons expert.
The UN nuclear inspection team – the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – claimed to have discovered the explosives “in a buffer zone between the site’s internal and external perimeter barriers”. The authority noted that it had also found mines during previous checks of the facility – the largest in the Europe and the second largest in the world.
Director General of the IAEA Rafael Mariano Grossi said on the watchdog’s website: “As I have reported earlier, the IAEA has been aware of the previous placement of mines outside the site perimeter and also at particular places inside.
“Our team has raised this specific finding with the plant and they have been told that it is a military decision, and in an area controlled by military.”
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