2022-11-22 09:29:44
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the developments around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant
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The Kiev regime continues playing with fire by staging
crude, irresponsible provocations at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. After a temporary cessation, Ukraine’s Armed Forces resumed artillery shelling of its territory inside the perimeter. The plant’s critical infrastructure and the lives and health of its workers have again come under threat.
On the evening of November 19,
the plant’s territory was shelled by numerous artillery strikes with NATO 155 calibre munitions. The shelling continued on the following day, November 20 and hit, among other things, a nuclear waste storage facility.
Luckily, the plant avoided serious damage, and no radioactive material was exposed. But
the situation was on the brink of a technogenic disaster.
From the very start of the attacks at the plant, we have maintained close contact with the IAEA Secretariat. As before, we sent all information about this latest attack, including photos and videos of the consequences of the shelling. We asked the Secretariat to inform the IAEA members about this immediately. The international community should know who stands behind the attacks.
Kiev’s actions look particularly cynical because they followed almost immediately a regular session of the IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna <...>
In this way, Kiev’s Western sponsors have again showed their duplicity. They gave the Zelensky regime carte blanche to continue its senseless attempts to irreparably damage the plant. In fact, they are
accomplices in Kiev-committed crimes that cannot be justified <...>
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t is time to call a spade a spade – otherwise it is impossible to stop these Ukrainian nationalists. This requires determination and responsibility. We hope these qualities will be displayed.
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