Putin pointed out to Macron that the shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP creates danger of a catastrophe

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. During the conversation, the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant was also discussed.

The leaders noted the importance of sending an IAEA mission to the nuclear power plant as soon as possible, which would be able to assess the real situation.

“Various aspects of the situation around Ukraine were discussed. Vladimir Putin, in particular, stressed that the systematic shelling by the Ukrainian military of the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant creates the danger of a large-scale catastrophe that could lead to radiation contamination of vast territories. The Presidents noted the importance of sending an IAEA mission to the nuclear power plant as soon as possible, which would be able to assess the real situation on the spot. The Russian side has confirmed its readiness to provide the agency inspectors with the necessary assistance,” the Kremlin website said in a statement.
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3. Western experts believe that no disaster is threatening the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, but this assessment is wrong, Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov told an online briefing on Friday.

"Experts in the West are now actively plugging the idea that a major disaster is not threatening [the NPP] at the moment, that there may be some radiation contamination, but limited in scale. However, according to our military experts, this assessment does not correspond to reality. The risks of an accident are serious. And it would take a very long time to clean up the aftereffects, as it was and still is in the case with the #chernobyl plant," the diplomat noted.

Ulyanov emphasized that in the event of a nuclear accident, a large part of Ukraine, part of Belarus, part of the Russian Federation, and Black Sea coastal countries like Abkhazia, Georgia, Romania and Bulgaria would be affected. Indeed, "there’ll be hell to pay," the diplomat cautioned.
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