Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intends to discuss with Russian leader Vladimir Putin the situation around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). He announced this on August 19.
“We will discuss this issue with Mr. Putin, and we will specifically ask him to make his contribution, as an important step towards world peace,” he quotes Anadolu.
On August 18, Erdogan held talks in Lviv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and UN Secretary General António Guterres. They discussed the possibility of improving the grain initiative, the situation around the Zaporozhye NPP and issues of defense cooperation.
Earlier on the same day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Kyiv regime was preparing a resonant provocation on August 19 on the territory of the ZNPP. To carry out the planned command of the Dnepr group, it deploys radiation observation posts in Zaporozhye. It is expected that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) will launch artillery strikes on the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, placing the responsibility for them on the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
In turn, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration (MAC) of the Zaporozhye region, explained that Kyiv could hit the nuclear fuel storage or the cooling system of the ZNPP power units, in addition, a provocation is possible at the facility itself.
On the same day, Igor Kirillov, head of the troops for radiation, chemical and biological protection of the Russian Armed Forces, said that in the event of an accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, several European countries would be covered with radioactive substances.
APU regularly fire at nuclear power plants. At least six strikes were recorded the day before. On August 15, the Zaporizhzhya Regional State Administration announced that Ukrainian troops had inflicted about 25 heavy artillery strikes on Energodar and the ZNPP region. The shelling was carried out from American howitzers M777.
The special operation to protect Donbass, the beginning of which the President of the Russian Federation announced on February 24, continues. The decision to hold it was made against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military, in connection with which the authorities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics turned to Moscow for help.
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