LONDON (Reuters) – It could be very tough to believe a Russian attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant was not deliberate, British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab stated on Friday.

Ukraine stated Russian army forces had seized the plant – Europe’s largest – after attacking it within the early hours of Friday, setting an adjoining five-storey coaching facility on hearth.

“It’s very tough to believe that it wasn’t performed intentionally. But in any occasion, it’s illegal to attack a website like this and not to do your due diligence on it and to hold bombarding it,” Raab informed BBC Television.

(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan, Editing by Paul Sandle)