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Equipos de rescate con linternas buscando entre los escombros de edificios destruidos al anochecer, en una vista amplia sin rostros reconocibles.
Rescatistas con linternas entre escombros al anochecer, en imagen alusiva a la búsqueda en Zaporizhzhia. · EPM

Rescuers attacked by drone in Zaporizhzhia, Zelensky says

According to Zelensky, Russia attacked rescuers searching for survivors at a bombed school in Zaporizhzhia with an FPV drone, while overnight attacks left more…

--- The context --- In Zaporizhzhia, emergency teams have spent a week searching for survivors and victims under the rubble of a bombed underground school. That rescue site has now come under a new attack, according to a denunciation made this Sunday by Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky. --- The facts --- According to Zelensky, Russian forces attacked the locality of Komishuvaja this Sunday with an FPV drone, where rescue work is concentrated. The president explained that the attack came after an aerial bomb struck the building the previous Monday and caused the death of 55 people, and he noted that people could still be trapped among the remains of the school. According to Zelensky, Russian forces also attacked energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk during the night and left more than 600.000 people without electricity in Dnipro and other areas. He indicated that the situation is complex in Kharkiv and added that in Zhytomyr an attack left 140 residential buildings without heating. According to the administration of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the plant lost its last external connection after an attack on the network and now operates with diesel generators to cool its six reactors and the spent fuel pools. The Ferrosplavnaya backup line was disconnected after damage and the main Dnieprovskaya line remains out of service since March. --- The positions --- Zelensky described the action, in attributed indirect form, as an act of absolute cynicism and brutality. He also maintained that last week's operations included numerous ballistic missiles and assured that a relevant proportion of that weaponry was manufactured this year. According to the plant's administration, its personnel are applying measures to guarantee the auxiliary generators and radiation levels remain within normal parameters. --- What remains unknown --- It remains unknown whether people are still alive under the rubble and how much longer search work can continue at a site that, according to Zelensky, was attacked again. It is also unknown when power will return for the more than 600.000 affected people or when the plant will recover a stable external connection. --- Unanswered questions --- How can rescue teams working among the rubble be protected if the site is attacked again? How many people remain trapped under the bombed school, according to Zelensky's account? How long can diesel generators sustain the cooling of the six reactors without an external connection? --- EPM analysis --- The reported strike joins two fronts: the human one, with rescuers exposed while searching for survivors, and the civilian one, with hundreds of thousands without electricity and dozens of buildings without heating. Added to that is the fragility of Europe's largest nuclear plant, occupied by Russia and dependent on diesel generators, according to its administration. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, attacking the scene of a rescue, if confirmed in the terms denounced by Zelensky, crosses a line that the war had already strained to the extreme, because it turns those searching for life among rubble into a direct target. The response cannot remain verbal condemnation: protecting emergency teams, restoring power to the cities and securing the cooling of the plant are urgent tasks that demand sustained international pressure, verifiable on the ground.
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