On June 29, large-scale special exercises began in Ukraine to prepare for a possible terrorist attack at the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Training takes place in three regions: Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kherson.
This was announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko.
Training is close to real events. The legend is a radiation leak from one of the power units of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
About eight thousand people were involved in the exercises: local authorities, law enforcement officers, volunteers, doctors, and representatives of all services responsible for civil protection. Also, 350 units of special vehicles and 400 evacuation buses were involved in the exercises.
Evacuation teams consisting of representatives of local authorities and police officers work in each settlement. They are responsible for moving people to safe areas. Almost 200 additional police patrols are also working on the roads to ensure that there are no traffic jams and that evacuation vehicles can move freely.
At the exercises, all possible scenarios are worked out, for example, that the radioactive cloud can go further to any region of the country.
Sanitary checkpoints were also deployed to check vehicles leaving populated areas. There is equipment for measuring the radiation background, the posts also inspect and process cars and people who are evacuated.
- On June 20, the head of intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that Russia had mined the cooling pond at the ZNPP, on June 21, the IAEA said that no mines were found in the cooling pond, but there are mines outside the plant, as well as in certain places inside (the Russians explained this as "defense purpose").
- On June 22, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi warned that Russia was preparing a terrorist attack with the release of radiation at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, and on June 25, Budanov said that Russia had completed preparations for the terrorist attack.
- Against this background, headquarters were deployed in Ukraine, which included energy workers, rescuers, police and medics. At the same time, the USA said on June 26 that they see no signs that Russia will blow up the ZNPP or strike with nuclear weapons.