In a telephone conversation, Putin and Macron advocated sending “as soon as possible” a mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to that plant in southern Ukraine, occupied by Russian troops since March, in order to “assess the real situation on the ground,” the Kremlin said.
Putin blamed the Ukrainian military for “the systematic bombing of the territory of Zaporizhia”, which “creates the risk of a major catastrophe“, added the Russian Presidency in a statement.
Ukraine claims that Russia stores heavy weapons at the plant and from there it bombards Ukrainian positions, which Moscow denies.
On the other hand, Vladimir Putin accepted that the inspection mission passes through Ukraine, “respecting the sovereignty” of Ukraine, indicated the Elysee Palace.
Fear of a nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine
the ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyurged the United Nations to guarantee the security of the site, after receiving on Thursday the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, in Lviv (West).
The Turkish president declared himself “concerned” about the danger of “another Chernobyl“, referring to the accident at that Ukrainian plant in 1986, the worst in civil nuclear history. While Guterres stated that any damage inflicted on the plant would be “suicide”.
This Friday, the UN secretary general asked Russia to refrain from cutting off supplies from Zaporizhia to the electrical network of Ukraine, echoing the fears expressed by the operator of the Ukrainian plants, Energoatom.
The cut in supply would deprive four million Ukrainian households of electricity.
“Of course Zaporizhia’s electricity is Ukrainian,” Guterres said in the port city of Odessa (south). “Naturally, its energy should be used by the Ukrainian people,” he later told AFP.
Source: Ambito
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