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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland, involved in fighting over Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, has distributed iodine tablets to regional fire departments to give to others in case of radioactive exposure, a deputy minister said on Thursday.
Iodine is a way to protect the framework from situations such as thyroid cancer in case of radioactive exposure.
The bombing of the site of Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, destroyed buildings near its six reactors and cut power cables, risking a nuclear crisis that would hit neighboring countries. Russia and Ukraine blame each other for the bombing around the plant.
“After media reports about the fighting near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, weArray. . . in advance to take protective measures to distribute iodine,” Deputy Interior Minister Blazej Pobozy told personal radio station Radio Zet.
“I would like to assure all citizens that these are occasional movements of the regime that will have to shield us from a scenario that. . . I hope it doesn’t happen,” he added.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine made the former Soviet satellite states nervous, and President Vladimir Putin’s risk of using nuclear weapons had already caused locals to rush for iodine materials early in the war.
The Russian military fired nine missiles at the city of Zaporizhzhia, hitting a hotel and a power plant, regional governor Oleksandr Starukh said on Thursday.
Zaporizhzhia is about 50 km (31 miles) from the nuclear plant of the same name.
The head of the United Nations atomic firm said on Wednesday he would not abandon plans to create a coverage zone around the Zaporizhzhia plant despite Russian plans to mobilize new troops and hold a referendum in the region.
(Reporting through Alan Charlish and Pawel Florkiewicz; Edited by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)