France has sent “various pharmaceuticals” to Ukraine, including iodine, in the event of a nuclear accident during a clash with the Russian military, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sunday night.
“Yes, we sent various medicines,” Mr Lendrian told France 2 when asked by a television reporter about sending iodine tablets to Ukraine.
“We sent a lot of medicine, it was part of them,” he later confirmed to France 5.
Earlier, the French ambassador to Ukraine, Etienne de Ponsan, told BFMTV that in the coming days Paris would deliver some “2.5 million doses of iodine” to Kyiv in order to deal with a possible nuclear accident.
The President of France, Emanuel Macron, took the initiative, had a new telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, in order to provide guarantees regarding the “protection” of the Ukrainian nuclear facilities.
President Macron “took this initiative” in coordination “with the International Atomic Energy Agency” (IAEA, part of the UN system), raising “seven or eight points on which the two (war) parties should agree”, specifically for Ukraine’s “sovereignty” over nuclear power plants and the “safety” of nuclear facilities in Ukraine, which also concerns “the whole of Europe,” Lentrian explained.
These positions “I believe President Putin has accepted” and in any case “we will see” after the IAEA Board of Directors met today and its head, Rafael Grossman, made proposals for the security of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities, he added. head of French diplomacy.
According to a statement issued by the French presidency earlier in the day, Mr Macron reiterated his “serious concern” for the safety of nuclear facilities following the March 4 bombing of a nuclear plant in Zaporizhia. of Europe’s largest.
The Russian president said he was “ready to respect IAEA rules for the protection of (nuclear) nuclear power plants” and agreed to a “dialogue between the IAEA, Ukraine and Russia” to ensure “their safety”, always in accordance with with the announcement of the French Presidency.
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