Russia Installs Shield Over Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Storage Site

A shield is being set up over a storage site for spent nuclear waste at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine to protect it from ‘shelling and drones,’ a Russian-installed official has said.

Video footage published by Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-appointed official in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia province, showed workers mounting a screen of what appeared to be some kind of transparent sheeting on wires above dozens of concrete cylinders about 5 metres, 16 feet, high.

“For now, it will protect from shrapnel and IEDs, improvised explosive devices, thrown from drones. But later on it will be substantial,” he said.

Aljazeera /Shakirat Sadiq