The Warnings Come After Russia Set Up A Military Base On The Nuclear Power Plant's Property Trapping The Ukrainian Workers Inside

The UN's nuclear watchdog IAEA has warned that Russia's continued mismanagement of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant would result in a new Chernobyl catastrophe for the nations of Ukraine, Russia, and Europe.

Reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded on April 26th 1986, after it's RBMK nuclear reactor exploded due to the graphite detonating the uranium.

The resulting explosion killed and continues to kill untold amounts of people, and the area around the plant located in Northern Ukraine and Southern Belarus will remain uninhabitable for the next 20,000 years.

IAEA chief Rafael Mariano Grossi told how he and his agency were: "Extremely concerned by reports of shelling and mismanagement at Europe's largest operational nuclear power plant".

The Ukrainian Army has relayed reports back to Kiev, telling of how the facility was severely damaged by both Ukrainian and Russian missile strikes.

The Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant began in March and was one of the first major installations captured by the Russian Army at the start of the war, including the now decommissioned Chernobyl.

Though Russian troops have long since left Chernobyl, with the exception of the snipers who continue to pick off staff and Ukrainian troops in The Zone, Zaporizhzhia continues to be occupied, with Ukrainian workers still stuck inside held hostage by the Russian military base set up outside.

Workers inside the plant have warned both Kiev and Moscow that the more they continue to shell the plant to draw the other out, the more they'll risk nuclear meltdowns, leaks, and explosions akin to Chernobyl.