UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that any damage to Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant would be “suicide” as Kyiv and Moscow accuse each other of bombing the site.
“We have to tell it like it is: any potential damage in Zaporizhia would be suicide,” Antonio Guterres said during a visit to Lviv, in western Ukraine, calling once again to “demilitarize” the power plant, occupied by the Russian army.
Saying he was “seriously concerned” about the situation at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, he called for it not to be used “for any military operations”.
Guterres wants Zaporizhia to be a ‘purely civilian infrastructure’
“An agreement is urgently needed to restore Zaporizhia as a purely civilian infrastructure and to ensure the security of the region,” Antonio Guterres said.
Ukraine has been accusing Moscow for weeks of storing heavy weapons at the Zaporizhia power plant and using it as a base for attacks on Ukrainian positions. He also assures that the Russian forces are shooting at the power plant they occupy to accuse Kyiv of these bombings.
Moscow on Thursday denied deploying heavy weapons at the plant, saying it only had units providing security. Russia, in turn, accuses Kyiv of preparing a “resounding provocation” on the spot during the UN Secretary General’s visit to Ukraine. He had previously mentioned Ukrainian drone attacks on the plant, which caused fires.
Source: BFM TV
