The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the secretary general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday for his support, and accused Russia of nuclear blackmail over its control of Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant.

Zelensky’s accusations they come after his visit to the regions of Zaporizhia and Dnipro.

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“I met with the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi. The issue is clear: the safety of our energy industry, our nuclear plants. First of all, the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), which Russia still uses for blackmailing the world community”, Zelensky said in his late-night speech from Dnipro on Monday. “No other terrorist has reached such depths in his cynicism, in which Russia constantly seeks and finds a new bottom,” he said characteristically.

Zelensky stressed that Russia’s seizure of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant threatens global security.

“to hold”hostage” a nuclear power plant for more than a year is the worst thing that could happen in the history of the European and more generally the world nuclear energy sector,” he said. “The longer the Russian occupation of the ZNPP continues, the greater the threat to the security of Ukraine, all of Europe and the world will be.”

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“I am grateful to our partners, to Grossi who understands this, and who supports Ukraine,” Zelensky said.

Zelensky met with front-line soldiers, visited a military hospital in Zaporizhia, and saw the aftermath of Russian bombings in Marchanets and Nikopoli. It also performed Cabinet meeting in Dnipro.

“I just held a staff meeting — for the first time away, in Dnipro. Right here — in the strategically important city of the center of our country, after visiting Markhanets and Nikopoli, Zaporizhia, the front-line positions of our fighters in the Zaporizhia region,” he said. “The commanders of the operational areas reported the real situation,” the Ukrainian president added.

“Every commander understands that the enemy must be held accountable for every attack on our cities and villages, on our people (…) for all the pain of Ukrainians — and not only during the full-scale war, but also since 2014” write down.

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