“Target for our Special Forces”
Zelenskyj Threatens Russian Nuclear Power Plant Garrison
08/14/2022 12:56 am
For days, Kiev and Moscow have blamed each other for the shelling of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. Now Ukrainian President Zelensky threatens to retaliate against Kremlin troops occupying the plant. He calls on the West to sanction Russia’s nuclear industry.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has threatened Russian soldiers in and around Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. “Every Russian soldier who shoots at that facility or shoots from its cover should know that he will become a special target for our secret agents, for our special forces, for our military,” Zelensky said in his evening video address.
He also accused Russian troops of using the nuclear plant site as a bastion to fire on the small towns of Nikopol and Marhanets on the other side of the Dnipro Dam. The president warned that stationing Russian troops at the base “increases the radiological threat to Europe.”
Zelenskyj added: “Of course there should be a tough reaction.” Ukrainian diplomats and representatives of partner countries are now doing everything to stop Russia’s nuclear industry. Zelenskyy called on the West to impose sanctions on Russia’s nuclear industry. Punitive measures should affect the nuclear industry of the occupying state, he said. Nuclear power Russia is building nuclear power plants in several countries and storing radioactive waste.
For days, Kiev and Moscow have accused each other of supporting the shelling of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. With six reactors and a net output of 5700 MW, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was occupied by Russian troops in early March. It is of strategic importance for the country’s power supply. The leadership in Moscow and the occupation authorities in Zaporizhia have rejected demands to return the nuclear plant to Ukrainian control.
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