The dire warning, which U.S. and international atomic energy officials have not confirmed, says Putin personally ordered 'preparation' for an attack on the notorious site.
A Ukrainian national emergency services agency if power to the plant's cooling systems — which keep spent nuclear fuel safely surrounded by water — is not ensured, it could create a"radioactive cloud" that would blow over"other regions of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Europe."
Then came the warning from Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Agency that"a man-made catastrophe is planned at the Russian-controlled Chornobyl NPP [Nuclear Power Plant], responsibility for which the occupiers will try to shift to Ukraine."CBS News is seeking information on the alleged plot by Russia from U.S. officials and the IAEA.
A State Department spokesperson told CBS News on Friday that the U.S. condemned Russia's seizure of the Chernobyl plant and called on Russian forces to immediately withdraw from all of Ukraine's nuclear facilities and allow power and safe working conditions to be restored. Matt Kroenig, who worked on both nuclear and Russia related issues under the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations, told CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge this week that Putin was weaponing Ukraine's civilian nuclear facilities as part of a strategy to terrorize, and potentially to stage a major nuclear event.
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