(ANSA) - PARIS, 11 SEPT - The French president, Emmanuel Macron, today in a phone call asked Vladimir Putin to withdraw Russian heavy and light weapons from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
He lets the Elysée know.
In the interview, the Elysée continues, Macron "condemned the continuation of Russian military operations in Ukraine and recalled the need for them to cease as soon as possible, for negotiations to be started and for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity to be restored".
As for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, about which Macron has spoken in the last hours with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and with the director general of the IAEA, the French president "insisted" on the "need for its safety to be guaranteed".
Putin "reminded that the Russian occupation is the cause of the risks that weigh today on the integrity of the power station" and "asked that the Russian forces withdraw heavy weapons and read them following the recommendations of the IAEA to guarantee the safety of the site".
The Russian president, for his part, told the French president that the Ukrainian attacks on the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, "including the storage of radioactive waste", could have "catastrophic consequences" and called for "pressure to be exerted on Kiev to stop it immediately. the attacks ".
(HANDLE).