MOSCOW: The Russian government has issued a new warning that a disaster is still possible at the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in Ukraine.
While Russia claims that the Ukrainian side is still putting Europe's largest nuclear plant endangered in the south of the country and has resumed bombarding the eastern city of Kharkiv this week, as per reports Both sides have blamed each other for the shelling at Zaporizhzhya.
The US-supplied weapons used by the Ukrainian military to threaten the nuclear plant, according to Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian National Security Council, in the Uzbek capital Tashkent.
"In the event of a catastrophe, its effects would be felt all over the world. Washington, London, and their go-betweens will be held accountable, "According to Interfax, he spoke at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) representatives should assess the situation on the ground, the Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, agreed in a telephone conversation later on Friday, according to the Kremlin, which added that Moscow would provide the "necessary assistance". While there has been a dispute over the path the experts would take, Russia has refused requests from throughout the world to remove its soldiers from the area.
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