Antonio Guterres said any attack in the region was “suicidal” and urged Kyiv and Moscow to allow the IAEA access to the site to carry out analysis and maintenance work on Europe’s largest facility.
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The situation in Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the nuclear power plant of “Humanity is a misjudgment of nuclear annihilation,” according to the UN on the situation in Zaporizhia, remains the current epicenter of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine who constantly accuse themselves of having carried out attacks in the region. On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the bombing of nuclear power plants by Ukrainian forces “is a potentially extremely dangerous activity … which could have catastrophic consequences for a vast region, including the territory of Europe”, and called on Ukraine’s allies ” to use their influence to prevent further bombing”. After the new attack in the region, the Secretary General of U.N., Antonio Guterres, who has harshly criticized the situation at the plant without blaming either side, told a Tokyo news conference that “any attack on a nuclear power plant is a suicidal thing” and that he hopes “that the attacks will end” and “that the IAEA have access to the site,” he said, adding that “humanity is just a misunderstanding, a misjudgment away from nuclear annihilation.” He also seized the moment to urge the world to get rid of its nuclear weapons, “the only guarantee they will never be used.”
The UN SecretaryGeneral made the remarks after his visit to Hiroshima over the weekend, where he spoke to mark the 77th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing. During the recent attacks, Kyiv warned of the danger of a Chernobyl and advocated that the area become a demilitarized zone. “The decision that we demand from the world community and all our partners … is to remove the invaders from the site’s territory and create a demilitarized zone on the site’s territory,” said Petro Kotin, head of the State Nuclear Energy Company of Ukraine. “Presence of peacekeepers in this region and handing over control to them and control of the facility to the Ukrainian side would solve this problem.” away,” the UN says of the situation in “Humanity is one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” the UN says of the situation in Zaporizhia, which is still managed by Ukrainian technicians. According to Kyiv, further bombings in the area of the factory damaged three radiation sensors and two workers were hospitalized with shrapnel injuries.
Russia and Ukraine exchange allegations of attacks on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the new epicenter of the war │Zaporizhia NPP / ESN / AFP
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the Ukrainian fire damaged highvoltage lines feeding the Sovietera plant, forcing it to reduce power on two of its six reactors to “avoid disruptions.” The nuclear power plant of “Humanity is a misjudgment of nuclear annihilation,” the UN says of the situation in Zaporizhia, has been under Russian control since March, making access to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) DirectorGeneral Rafael Mariano Grossi difficult, according to a statement Region for repairs and maintenance, which has not happened since the beginning of the conflict. “The route to the site is very complex because it requires the consent and cooperation of multiple actors,” most notably Ukraine and Russia, and support from the UN since the facility is in a war zone, Grossi said. “I try to get a mission up and running as quickly as possible,” he added. Last week, the Director General of the IAEA even stated that the situation in Region was out of control and that all “safety principles have been violated in one way or another. And we cannot allow this to continue.” The world’s worst civilian nuclear disaster occurred in 1986 when a reactor at the Chernobyl complex in northwestern Ukraine exploded. Guterres said the International Atomic Energy Agency needs access to “Humanity is one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” the UN says of the situation in Zaporizhia. “We fully support the IAEA in all their efforts to create the conditions for the stabilization of the plant,” he said.
*With information from Portal and AFP