Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today called on Russians to protest against the Russian occupation of the largest nuclear plant in Europe.
A building in Zaporizhia nuclear plant was engulfed in flames during heavy fighting, Ukrainian authorities said today, raising fears of a possible nuclear disaster. The fire was then extinguished.
“Russian people, I want to appeal: how is this possible? After all that we fought for in 1987 against the Chernobyl disaster,” he said. Zelensky recalling memories of the worst nuclear disaster in the world.
“You have to … take to the streets and say that you want to live, you want to live on a Earth without radioactive contamination. Radioactivity does not know where Russia is, radioactivity does not know where your country’s borders are.”
The Russian Defense Ministry attributed the attack on the Zaporizhia nuclear plant to Ukrainian saboteurs, calling it a monstrous provocation.
Russian forces invading Ukraine last week have already seized the dormant Chernobyl plant north of Kiev, which after a crash there in April 1986, contaminated much of Europe with a cloud of radioactivity.
Analysts say the Zaporizhia plant is of a different and safer type, but Zelensky said now is not the time to be silent.
“You have to remember the burning toner that was fired after the explosion, the victims. You have to remember the glow over the damaged power plant, the evacuation operation. How can you forget that? And if you have not forgotten it, you must not stay. silent “.
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