The Ukrainian nuclear agency "Energoatom" announced an "unprecedented" cyberattack against its website, reports "France Presse".

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It is specified that its activity was not disrupted.

"On August 16, 2022, the most powerful cyber attack since the beginning of the Russian invasion was carried out against the Energoatom website," the operator informed Telegram.

The message stated that the attack was carried out from Russian territory.

According to Energoatom data, Russian hackers used more than 7 million Internet bots to attack the website for three hours.

However, the attack "did not have a significant impact on the operation of the website of Energoatom".

A Russian Telegram channel dubbed the "people's cyber army" called on its followers around noon yesterday to attack the website of the Ukrainian nuclear operator.

The cyber attack comes at a time when tensions are rising over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine - Europe's largest.

It was taken over by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine.

The plant has come under fire in recent days, with both Moscow and Kyiv accusing each other of creating the conditions for a nuclear accident.

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Kyiv denies striking the plant's facilities and says Russian troops are conducting "operations under a foreign flag" and shelling it themselves to blame Ukraine.

For his part, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, warned that the demilitarization of the Zaporizhia NPP proposed by the UN Secretary General would make it more vulnerable, as Russian troops "guard" the plant, including from terrorists.

Subsequently, the occupation administration of the Zaporozhye region stated that the UN leadership and the head of EU diplomacy should announce not demilitarization, but to introduce a regime of silence and provide not only sanctions for its violation, but also the most severe sanctions for shelling nuclear power plants.

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