Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday accused each other of plotting to stage an attack on the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, long the subject of mutual recriminations and suspicions.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he told his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, about Russian “dangerous provocations” at the plant in southeastern Ukraine.
Russian troops seized the station, Europe’s largest nuclear facility with six reactors, in the days following the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Each side has since regularly accused the other of shelling around the plant and risking a major nuclear mishap.
Renat Karchaa, an adviser to the head of Rosenergoatom, which
