Ukraine calls on world to ‘show strength’ after shelling near nuclear plant – Times of India

Kyiv: Ukraine Called for new sanctions on Russia and highlighted the risks and consequences of devastation at Europe’s largest nuclear plant, where fresh shelling nearby has restarted a blame game between the two sides.
Ukrainian And Russian-founded officials have traded allegations about who is responsible for the attacks. zapsorizia Nuclear plant in southern Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Russian troops that they will become a “special target” if they attack the site in the now Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar, or use it as a base to shoot.
Calling for new sanctions on Russia’s nuclear sector, he said in his address late Monday: “If Russian actions cause any catastrophe, it could have consequences for those who are silent for the time being.”
“If now the world does not show the strength and determination to defend a nuclear power station, it will mean that the world is lost.”
The world nuclear watchdog has warned of disaster if the fighting does not stop.
Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-established official in Enerhodar, said Monday that about 25 heavy artillery strikes from US-built M777 howitzers occurred near nuclear plants and residential areas during a two-hour period.
Russian Interfax news agency quoted the press service of the Russian-appointed administration of Enerhodar as saying that Ukrainian forces opened fire with explosions near the power plant.
But according to the head of the administration of the Nikopol district, which lies across the river from Enerhodar and remains under Ukrainian control, it was Russian forces that shelled the city to try to make it appear that Ukraine was attacking it. was.
Ukrainian presidential staff chief Andrey Yermak wrote on Twitter: “Russia thinks they can force the world to abide by their terms by shelling the Zaporizhzhya NPP (Nuclear Power Plant).”
According to a report from the South District of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Facebook, Russian forces continued to shell towns and cities – Velika Kostyumka in the south and Marhanets in front of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
It said that the Ukrainian army killed 23 Russian soldiers and destroyed two reinforced bases.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the battlefield reports.
The United Nations says it has the logistics and security capability to support the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) visit if both Russia and Ukraine agree.
The ministry said on Monday that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke with Guterres over the phone to discuss conditions for the safe functioning of the plant.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: “In close cooperation with the agency and its leadership, we will do everything possible to ensure that IAEA experts remain at the station and accurately assess the disastrous actions of the Ukrainian side.”
But Igor Vishnevsky, deputy head of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control, was later quoted as saying that it would be too dangerous for any IAEA mission to travel through the capital Kyiv to inspect the plant.
“Imagine what it means to pass through Kyiv – it means that they reach the nuclear plant from the front line,” Vishnevetsky was quoted as saying by the RIA news agency.
Ukraine, where parliament on Monday extended martial law for another three months, said it was planning a retaliation to retake Zaporizhzhya and neighboring Kherson province, following Russia’s February 24 strike. The largest part of the territory confiscated after the invasion is and still is.
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The conflict, which has left millions fleeing and thousands dead, has put enormous strain on relations between Moscow and the West.
A Russian-backed separatist court in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, charged five foreign nationals who were caught fighting with Ukrainian forces along with mercenaries on Monday, Russian media reported. The three men could face the death penalty.
Russia said late Monday that a British reconnaissance aircraft violated its airspace in a peninsula east of Finland between the Barents Sea and the White Sea and a fighter jet forced a British aircraft out of Russian airspace.
The UK Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Russia described its invasion of Ukraine as a “special military operation” to demilitarize its neighbor and protect Russian-speaking communities. Ukraine and Western supporters accused Moscow of waging an imperialist-style war of conquest.
Ukrainian military said on Monday evening that Russian forces were shelling various forward fronts in the east and south.
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