Russia circulates fresh fake story about 'Ukrainian attack' on Zaporizhzhia plant
Russia fabricates new fake claims about a "Ukrainian attack" on a nuclear power plant (photo: Getty Images)
Russian propaganda has circulated another false claim alleging that the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. This time, the claim alleges the destruction of six buses and two vehicles at the facility's transportation department, according to Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under the National Security and Defense Council.
CCD says the latest fake is a continuation of yesterday's false narrative alleging a strike on Unit 6 of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Ukraine is not conducting military operations on the territory of the nuclear facility and continues to comply with international law.
Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation and an officer in Ukraine's Defense Forces, stressed that the claims being spread by Russia have no basis in reality.
"Russians continue to mass-produce fake claims about an attack on the Zaporizhzhia plant. This has been blatant lies from the very beginning, because Ukraine has no reason to attack its own nuclear power plant, which was occupied by the Russians in 2022 and is regularly used for information provocations. So this is yet another Russian setup — a rather cheap one," Kovalenko said.
According to him, Russia's goal in repeatedly producing such disinformation is simple — to justify its own future terror, which Moscow plans. The threat of strikes, he stressed, has not gone away.
Kovalenko also reminded that it was Russia that attacked the sarcophagus of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in 2025.
The CCD added that Russia has for years consistently spread false claims about alleged Ukrainian strikes on the Zaporizhzhia plant — part of an effort to create an information pretext for possible Russian provocations at the nuclear facility.
The Kremlin tries in advance to shift responsibility for such provocations onto Ukraine. The CCD called these systematic manipulations around the plant part of Russia's policy of nuclear terrorism against Ukraine and the world.
This fake about "destroyed buses" followed an earlier false claim about a supposed Ukrainian strike on Unit 6 of the Zaporizhzhia plant, which Ukraine's Defense Forces already denied, noting that the facility is located about 50 km from the front line and that Ukrainian troops operate in full compliance with international humanitarian law.
Russian propaganda has repeatedly spread claims about Ukraine allegedly "preparing sabotage" at the Zaporizhzhia plant. A similar statement was made by the Kremlin via its Foreign Intelligence Service in autumn 2025.
