If Ukrainian forces keep attacking the Zaporozhye power plant, a nuclear disaster could happen at any moment, Moscow warns
Kiev’s “reckless” actions are pushing the world ever closer to a major nuclear disaster, Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, told the body’s Security Council on Thursday.
The Zaporozhye power plant in southern Ukraine has been under the control of Russian forces since February and has since been shelled by Kiev’s troops on several occasions.
“We have repeatedly warned our Western colleagues that, should they fail to talk sense into the Kiev regime, it would take the most heinous and reckless steps, which would have consequences far beyond Ukraine,” Nebenzia warned at a meeting focused on the issue.
“That is exactly what is happening,” he said, adding that the Western “sponsors” of Kiev would have to bear the responsibility for a potential nuclear catastrophe.
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