The Kremlin dismissed the allegation as “another lie”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The two sides have accused each other of shelling the vast complex, and international efforts to establish a demilitarised zone around it have failed so far.
“Unfortunately, I have had to remind more than once that radiation knows no state borders. And who it will hit is determined only by the direction of the wind...” Mr Zelensky said. Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, suffered the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986, when clouds of radioactive material spread across much of Europe after an explosion and fire at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
Mr Zelensky made his statement two days after Ukraine’s military intelligence chief accused Russia of “mining” the cooling pond that is used to keep the reactors cool at the Zaporizhzhia plant. Russian forces have occupied swathes of Ukraine’s south and east, and Moscow has unilaterally declared them a part of Russia.More On This Topic
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