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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested that the foreign network force the Russian military to leave the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after the moves affected the complex.
“Everyone will have to react without delay to expel the occupants of Zaporizhzhia. Only the total withdrawal of RussiansArray. . . would ensure nuclear safety for all of Europe,” Zelensky said in his daily video speech.
It came after Ukraine accused Russia of bombing the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant on Thursday, Al Jazeera reported.
Earlier, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had demanded the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant “as soon as possible” for its safety.
“I call on both sides to cooperate . . . and allow an IAEA project to take a stand as soon as possible,” Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a speech to the UN Security Council.
Grossi said the IAEA had obtained updates from Ukraine and Russia, but the data provided was contradictory, according to Al Jazeera.
“So I propose, I beg to call this project as soon as possible,” he said, adding that preventing a nuclear crisis is a “collective responsibility. “
Ukraine’s interior minister said Kyiv is drawing up contingency plans to deal with any situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, adding to the evacuation of other people from the area.
“The factory is to this day only in the hands of the enemy, but in the hands of uneducated specialists who can allow a tragedy to occur,” Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky told Reuters in an interview.
“Of course, it’s even hard to believe the magnitude of the tragedy that could occur if the Russians continued their movements there,” he said.
Meanwhile, the UN leader called for an early end to all army activities around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and warned that any damage could have “catastrophic consequences” in the region and beyond, Al Jazeera reported.
In a preview of a U. N. Security Council assembly to discuss the safety of the plant, Guterres called for “common sense and reason” to avoid any action “that may endanger the physical integrity, safety or security of the nuclear power plant. “
Guterres issued an earlier separate report the day before the nuclear power plant site was attacked five times, according to the Ukrainian nuclear operator.
Moscow and Kyiv accused others of attacking the compound on Thursday and over the weekend.
In particular, Russia introduced a “special army operation” in Ukraine on February 24, in which the West has an unprovoked war. As a result, Western countries have also imposed several crippling sanctions on Moscow.
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Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear force plant, occupied by Moscow’s troops, returned to operation on Friday, the state operator said, after Kyiv claimed it had been cut off from the national force network by Russian bombing. The plant, Europe’s largest nuclear facility, cut off Ukraine’s force grid on Thursday for the first time in its four-decade history due to “the movements of invaders,” Energoatom said.
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