"If the reactors or the cooling plant are hit, it risks blowing up half of Europe."
Thus Yevgeny Balitsky, the head of the Russian civil-military administration of the region in southern Ukraine where the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is located, commented in an interview with Russian TV on the situation of the site, which according to the Russians was always attacked yesterday by the Ukrainians with the use of kamikaze drones which caused 11 injuries.
Tass reports it.
Kiev accuses the Russian forces of storing a large number of weapons, including tanks and missile systems, at the plant.
The Zaporizhzhia power plant
"The attacks by the Ukrainian army on nuclear sites show the intention to create the conditions for a nuclear disaster in Europe".
This was stated today by the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, after yesterday's Russian sources denounced a drone attack on the Zaporizhzhia plant with a toll of 11 injured.
Lee same sources had said that service buildings had been hit but none of the six reactors of the plant, which is the largest in Europe.
According to Energoatom, the state-owned company that oversees nuclear plants in Ukraine, Russian forces have meanwhile requested access to the machine rooms of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where they intend to store their "entire military arsenal", reports Ukrainska Pravda.
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The Russian military forces ask the administration of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to open the engine rooms of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd units in order to be able to store the entire military arsenal.
It seems safe to the occupants, as they are terribly afraid of receiving 'gifts' from the Ukrainian Armed Forces ", comments Energoatom." For this reason they now want to bring tanks, trucks, armaments with loads of ammunition, etc. into the engine rooms ", continues Energoatom On Saturday, the president of Energoatom, Pedro Kotin, announced that Russia was using the Zaporizhzhia power plant - the largest in Europe - as a base for the storage of weapons, including "missile systems".
2nd and 3rd units to be able to deposit the entire military arsenal.
It seems safe to the occupants, as they are terribly afraid of receiving 'gifts' from the Ukrainian Armed Forces ", comments Energoatom." For this reason they now want to bring tanks, trucks, armaments with loads of ammunition, etc. into the engine rooms ", continues Energoatom On Saturday, the president of Energoatom, Pedro Kotin, announced that Russia was using the Zaporizhzhia power plant - the largest in Europe - as a base for the storage of weapons, including "missile systems".
2nd and 3rd units to be able to deposit the entire military arsenal.
It seems safe to the occupants, as they are terribly afraid of receiving 'gifts' from the Ukrainian Armed Forces ", comments Energoatom." For this reason they now want to bring tanks, trucks, armaments with loads of ammunition, etc. into the engine rooms ", continues Energoatom On Saturday, the president of Energoatom, Pedro Kotin, announced that Russia was using the Zaporizhzhia power plant - the largest in Europe - as a base for the storage of weapons, including "missile systems".
Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko
The West, Ukraine and Russia must end the conflict to avoid the "precipice" of "nuclear war".
This was stated by Belarusian President
Alexander Lukashenko
, Moscow's main ally, in an interview with AFP.
In any case, according to Lukashenko "it all depends on Ukraine, because at this point the war could end in better conditions for them".
Thus,
the Kiev government "must sit down at the negotiating table and agree to never threaten Russia".
Russia, Lavrov: 'The West is trying to aggravate the situation'
MORE BOMBS ON THE GROUND
Two people died and 19 were injured this morning in a
Russian bombing of Kharkiv
, in north-eastern Ukraine, according to the head of the regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, quoted by Ukrainska Pravda.
The mayor, Igor Terekhov, said the bombing took place in a densely populated area.
New threats come from former Russian President Dmytri
Medvedev
, current deputy head of the National Security Council, according to which "as a result of all that is happening, Ukraine could lose the remnants of its state sovereignty and disappear from the world map. ".
