The rear of an International Atomic Energy Agency vehicle was destroyed by a Kamikaze drone during a rotation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, the agency said in a release Tuesday.
Personnel from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a driver and a security officer, were unharmed, IAEA said.
The incident occurred almost five miles within Ukrainian controlled territory. The vehicle was moving toward a meeting point for the IAEA team members to complete their rotation, and a driver in a second IAEA vehicle saw the drone coming.
“I have said in the past that attacking a nuclear power plant is a no go,” Rafael Grossi, director general of the IAEA, said in the statement. “Attacking those who care for the nuclear safety and security of these plants is also absolutely unacceptable.”
The IAEA has been present at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya plant since September 2022, less than a year after Russia invaded Ukraine that February. So far, no one has taken responsibility for the drone attack.
