# Attacks on Zaporozhye NPP expose true nature of Kiev regime — senator

https://mins.news/en/item/24506

- TASS, 2026-08-17 19:49 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2174363

> Russian senator Dmitry Vorona says Ukraine deliberately attacked the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, showing that the Kiev regime is willing to use provocations to escalate the conflict. He said combat operations must never take place near the plant and that the shelling had seriously intensified the confrontation.

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