Cooling pool units at Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar. File photoVIENNA, Aug 9 Attacks by Ukrainian armed forces on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant are nuclear terrorism, Russian Deputy Representative to the OSCE Maxim Buyakevich said on Tuesday. is no longer enough, and he «decided to raise the stakes and actually take the whole of Europe hostage, striking at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and creating the risk of a large-scale nuclear catastrophe.» /> In Moldova and Romania, the authorities began to tell people about the dangers of radiation «It is extremely surprising that the political circles of Western countries did not react to such extremely dangerous adventures of Kyiv. The United States, being overseas, obviously considers itself safe. But do European capitals really not realize the risks «new Chernobyl»?» Buyakevich said at a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council. He noted that in the event of an accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, population of Kyiv, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv, Poltava, Kherson, Odessa regions of Ukraine, Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, border regions of Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania, in case of contamination of the water arteries, the Black Sea and the Bosphorus Strait for a long time may become unsuitable for shipping, and the coasts of Abkhazia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania and Turkey will be contaminated with high levels of radiation. «We call on the OSCE, the UN, the IAEA and everyone who can influence the Kyiv regime to exert maximum pressure on it. The qualification of the AFU attacks on the ZNPP is unequivocal — nuclear terrorism,» the diplomat concluded.
