The Kremlin said today that it is interested in negotiations with the United States on nuclear weapons, but talks are unlikely to take place at this time.
“Given the tectonic shifts we’re seeing, we are interested and believe that the negotiations and discussions on this issue continue. The whole world needs these kinds of negotiations,” he said. Dmitry peshkov, Kremlin spokesperson told reporters.
The US Ambassador to Moscow, John J. Sullivan, also said on Monday that despite the crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine, Russia should not close the US embassy in the country because the two largest nuclear powers in the world should keep talking.
The war, now lasting more than 100 days, carries fears of a nuclear escalation, especially after the movement of Russian troops against the facilities in Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia. Second, it has Ukrainian personnel working under Russian supervision.
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Also, on Sunday, Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear power operator Energoatom said a Russian cruise missile was flying at “critical and low altitude” over a major nuclear power plant in the Mykolayiv region.
“It was probably the missile fired in the direction of Kyiv,” plant operator Pivdennoukrainska said in a Telegram post. The Ukrainian capital was hit by attacks again yesterday.
The agency said in a statement that Russian forces “do not understand that even the smallest fragment of a missile capable of hitting a still-working power supply could cause a nuclear disaster and a loss of radiation.”
100 days of war: see footage of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine
Mar 26,2022 – People standing next to the Ukrainian national flag watch the thick smoke rising after an airstrike in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
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26.mar.2022 – Aleksey Filipov/AFP
29.mar.2022 – A Ukrainian soldier stands next to a destroyed Russian tank in the northeastern town of Trostyanets
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29.mar.2022 – Fadel Senna/AFP
March 21, 2022 – A man rides a bicycle near the debris outside the Retroville shopping center in a residential area that was destroyed after the Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
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21.mar.2022 – Aris Messinis/AFP
5.mar.2022 – People cross a destroyed bridge as they evacuate the town of Irpin, northwest of Kiev
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5.mar.2022 – Aris Messinis/AFP
March 5, 2022 – A woman sits as people cross a collapsed bridge in the town of Irpin, northwest of Kiev
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5.mar.2022 – Aris Messinis/AFP
May 3, 2022 – Police search an area hit by an attack in Lviv, western Ukraine, amid smoke and fire.
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May 3, 2022 – Leon Neal/Getty Images
May 10.2022 – Halyna Moisenko runs to press her face into the coffin before the funeral of her son, Sergeant Olexandr Moisenko, in Lviv, western Ukraine
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May 10, 2022 – Leon Neal/Getty Images
16.May.2022 – Aerial view of the ruins of the – now iconic – bridge over the Irpin River, where thousands of residents fled from Russian occupation. The bridge is now an official memorial to those who lost their lives in the battle of Irpin and Bucha.
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May 16, 2022 – Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
April 27, 2022 – In the shelter of the Ostchem factory in Sievierodonetsk, eastern Ukraine, an 85-year-old woman sleeps in her bed.
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Apr 27, 2022 – Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP
April 30, 2022 – Ukrainian soldiers receive medical treatment when they arrive at an abandoned building to rest in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, after two months of fighting on the front lines.
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Apr 30, 2022 – Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP
Apr 30,2022 – Ukrainian soldiers at the forefront of the war gather in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine
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Apr 30, 2022 – Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP
18.mar.2022 – Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at an event at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium on the eighth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea
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18.mar.2022 – Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency with Getty Images
April 9, 2022 – Ukrainian refugee girl receives a plush toy when she arrives at the Zahony train station on the Ukraine-Russia border
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9. Apr.2022 – Christophe Archambault/AFP
April 27, 2022 – A Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 bursts into flames as it provides air support to ground Ukrainian troops during the battle near Yampil in eastern Ukraine
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Apr 27, 2022 – Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP
June 1, 2022 – A woman collects her belongings from the rubble of her home after an attack on a residential area in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk.
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June 1, 2022 – Aris Messinis/AFP
May 31, 2022 – A red poppy flower is seen in front of a demolished residential building in Mariupol, a port city in southeastern Ukraine.
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May 31, 2022 – AFP
June 1, 2022 – A woman walks by a destroyed apartment building in the town of Borodyanka in the Kyiv region
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June 1, 2022 – Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP
May 5.2022 – A hangar is seen at the Hostomel airport in the Kyiv region, where the Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane was destroyed after battles with Russian troops
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5.May.2022 – Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane appears to have been destroyed after clashes with Russian troops at Hostomel airport in Kyiv region
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April 2, 2022 – The bodies of civilians are seen in Bucha, northwest of Kiev, after the Russian army withdrew from the city
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Apr 2.2022 – Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP
May 6.2022 – A residential apartment was damaged in a Russian missile attack the day before in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine
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April 23, 2022 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to foreign journalists at a metro station in Kiev
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Apr 23, 2022 – Genya Savilov/AFPRafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also said this Monday that the UN body (United Nations) will send a delegation with experts to the nuclear power plant. zaporizhzhia
Stating that he is concerned about Ukraine’s supply of spare parts to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Grossi added that data on nuclear material is not yet available at the quarterly meeting of his agency’s 35-nation Executive Board. should be forwarded to the IAEA as it should be.
“I took note of the Ukrainian government’s call,” said the head of the ministry.
Throughout the conflict, Russia has denied that it has a strategy of using nuclear attacks. Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexei Zaitsev said that the use of weapons of mass destruction cannot be applied to what he calls a special military operation in Ukraine.
*With information from Reuters
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