OUR Ukraine goals Russian soldiers who open fire on him largest nuclear power plant in Europe or use it as a base to open fire while its countries group of seven (G7), fearing a nuclear catastrophe, urge Moscow to withdraw its forces from the station.

Ukraine and Russia have exchanged accusations of numerous bombings of a nuclear facility in Zaporozhye south of Ukraine. Russian troops occupied the station during the initial phase of the war.

“Any Russian soldier who either fires at the station or fires using the station as cover must understand that he becomes a special target for our intelligence officers, for our special services, for our military,” the president said. Vladimir Zelensky.

He has repeatedly claimed that Russia is using the station for nuclear blackmail.

Advisor to the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak accused Russia of “strike on the part of the nuclear power plant that produces energy that supplies the south of Ukraine.” “The goal is to disconnect us (from the station) and blame the Ukrainian military for this,” he tweeted.

OUR International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), seeking to inspect the station, warned of a nuclear catastrophe if the shooting did not stop. Nuclear experts fear that the fighting could damage storage facilities for spent fuel rods or reactors.

Head of the UN Antonio Guterres called for the creation of a demilitarized zone around the Zaporozhye nuclear facility, where Ukrainian specialists still work.

Zelensky demands sanctions

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky urged the West to impose sanctions on the Russian nuclear industry amid an exchange of accusations between Kyiv and Moscow in connection with the attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe.

“Russia is using this plant in southern Ukraine to terrorize the world and blackmail the Ukrainian political leadership and the entire planet,” Zelensky said in his evening speech.

Russia, a country with a nuclear arsenal, is building nuclear power plants in various countries.

Zelensky accused Russian troops of using the Zaporozhye facility as fortress and from there they attack Nikopol and Manganetson the other side of it Dnieper.

A warning that the development of the Russian armed forces “increases the radioactive threat to Europe to a level that was not even in the most difficult moments (…) of the Cold War.”

He demanded a “tough response” from the West.