"This night could have been the end of the history of Ukraine and Europe".
After hours of bombing and "nuclear terror", as Volodymyr Zelensky denounced, the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, the largest in Europe, on the banks of the Dnipro River, has fallen into Russian hands and the workers are now working "under the threat of weapons".
"They knew what they were hitting, they targeted the site directly," accused the Kiev leader, who immediately heard Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, evoking a narrow escape risk of contamination six times worse than Chernobyl.
When the battle was over, the International Atomic Energy Agency assured that "no reactors were hit and there was no release of radiation into the environment".
Before the UN,
whose Security Council has been called urgently, Moscow has denied the accusations.
The Russian defense denounced the action of "Ukrainian saboteurs, with the participation of foreign mercenaries".
But these clashes, after the fears of recent days over the fighting in the Chernobyl area, sound like another alarm clock on the further dramatic risks linked to the conflict, prompting the world to urge "concrete measures" to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants.
"The attack was the height of irresponsibility," thundered the White House in the evening.
after the fears of recent days over the fighting in the Chernobyl area, they sound like another alarm clock on the further dramatic risks linked to the conflict, prompting the world to call for "concrete measures" to guarantee the safety of nuclear power plants.
"The attack was the height of irresponsibility," thundered the White House in the evening.
after the fears of recent days over the fighting in the Chernobyl area, they sound like another alarm clock on the further dramatic risks linked to the conflict, prompting the world to call for "concrete measures" to guarantee the safety of nuclear power plants.
"The attack was the height of irresponsibility," thundered the White House in the evening.
