Vladimir Putin Warns France’s Macron Of “Disaster” Over Ukraine Nuclear Plant Assaults

Emmanuel Macron talks to Vladimir Putin throughout a video convention in Paris. (File)

Moscow:

President Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned his French counterpart of the potential “catastrophic penalties” of what he stated have been Ukrainian assaults on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant in a Russian-controlled space of Ukraine.

Throughout a phone name with Emmanuel Macron, Putin “drew consideration to common Ukrainian assaults on (Zaporizhzhia nuclear) services, together with a radioactive waste storage facility, which is fraught with catastrophic penalties,” the Kremlin stated in a press release.

The biggest nuclear energy plant in Europe has been a focus of preventing in latest weeks, elevating considerations of a possible nuclear incident.

Putin stated Russian specialists on the plant have been taking steps to make sure its security and stated Moscow was able to proceed work with the UN’s atomic company to agree on “non-politicised” options to issues on the facility.

In the identical name, Macron instructed Putin that “the Russian occupation” was the rationale for the dangers dealing with the plant, in line with the French presidency.

Macron requested Putin to withdraw “heavy and light-weight weapons” from the location, the Elysee stated.

Ukraine’s nuclear vitality company stated Sunday the ultimate reactor at Zaporizhzhia was shut off as a security measure.

Throughout the name with Macron, Putin additionally accused Ukrainian forces of utilizing Western-supplied weapons to focus on civilian infrastructure within the japanese Donbas area of Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces have launched a significant counter-offensive to wrest again management of swathes of the east and pro-Moscow rebels this weekend reported that separatists have been preventing “tough” battles with Kyiv’s military within the Donetsk area in Donbas.

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