Mr Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations It warned of the dangers of fighting near the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. They met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erduan in the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Thursday.
Guterres, who has made his second visit to Ukraine since Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, said equipment and soldiers should be withdrawn from around the power plant. and avoid sending his soldiers and weapons into the area once more. The area needs to be a demilitarized zone and warned that “any damage to Zaporizhia is equal to suicide” and the Turkish leader said he feared the cataclysm of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
President Zelensky said following the discussion that He agreed with a proposal for a panel of investigators from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to control the situation at the power plant to ensure nuclear safety. and support calls for Guterres to make the area around the power plant a demilitarized zone
However, in the past several weeks, the area around the Zaporizhia power plant which is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe And was seized by the Russian army since March, was bombarded with heavy artillery. But both Ukraine and Russia blamed the attack on each other.
