In an appearance before the press, the ambassador rejected Kyiv’s provocations regarding the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe and urged the international community to condemn these events.

Not even that, he added to the press, is a “forbidden” sign for them.

Nebenzia also questioned the silence of Western nations by listing a series of attacks against that facility along with a pattern that since 2022 has focused mainly on the city of Energodar, where the plant’s employees and their families live, and the industrial zone around the plant.

“We wonder what Western states feel when their representatives undertake such dangerous provocations that can have serious consequences for them and for the entire world,” he emphasized in this regard.

The Russian diplomat detailed several attacks with combat or kamikaze drones in the last three days that, according to the number and intensity of the attacks and the facilities affected, are not accidents.

The events that occurred this weekend demonstrate that Ukrainian forces are simply neglecting common sense considerations, as well as the health and safety of their people and the people of other states, he said.

According to the press service of the headquarters, cited by the ambassador, on April 5, attacks by Ukrainian combat drones were detected in the area of ​​the cargo port and the nitrogen and oxygen station.

Two days later, a kamikaze drone hit the canteen area on the plant’s territory, leaving three people injured, one of them seriously, and damage to a truck that was unloading food.

That same day, others attacked the cargo port area, the dome of power unit six and power unit number five while the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the training center and the facility. The permanent representative announced that they will discuss these events in the next meeting on the conflict within the Security Council and rejected the media accusations that point to Russia as the author of the bombings against its own nuclear plant.

“Its absurdity does not stand up to any scrutiny or common sense. The reality is that our competent authorities are doing everything possible to ensure the safety of the plant, its employees and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) experts located there,” he said.

However, he warned, there is no nuclear power plant in the world designed to withstand a large-scale armed attack.

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