ZAPORIZKA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT AS AN OBJECT OF CONCENTRATION OF

Abstract

The article is devoted to the criminological analysis of the mechanism of 
committing certain war crimes against radioecological safety in connection with 
the capture and detention of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant by the 
Russian occupation forces. It is proved that the act of capturing the Zaporizhzhya 
Nuclear Power Plant should be considered in the complex of military-economic 
components of the crime of aggression. But such a seizure, unlike a number of 
other components of this segment of aggressive measures, is characterized by 
exceptional public danger due to the inherent characteristics of the specified 
object: dangerous forces, high concentration and mass of ionizing radiation 
sources, the release of which from a controlled (in technical, technological, 
physical aspects) state threatens a nuclear catastrophe of a global, planetary scale. 
The following stages of the act of capturing the ZNPP as a war crime against 
radioecological safety are highlighted, described and explained: 1) initial attack 
and occupation; 2) occupational appropriation of the power plant and taking over 
management of processes; 3) deployment of a military base on the territory of the 
ZNPP; 4) continuation of an ongoing war crime (attack on an object containing 
dangerous forces), the commission of which is combined with concomitant 
criminal practices: a) against the civilian population (illegal deprivation of liberty, 
torture of ZNPP personnel - citizens of Ukraine); b) against radioecological safety 
– regular shelling of objects located on the territory of the station.