Cooling pool units at the Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 18Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Ukraine is engaged in nuclear blackmail in the situation around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. «This is not just a provocation, this is what we called nuclear blackmail,» — she said on the air of the Soloviev Live Telegram channel. Thus, Zakharova commented on reports that Kyiv is preparing a provocation at the ZNPP, which is scheduled for August 19 and is associated with a visit to Ukraine by UN Secretary General António Guteres. /> The Ministry of Defense warned that Kyiv was preparing a resonant provocation at the ZNPP «What else is this? A provocation around a nuclear facility for a long time, when a direct threat to nuclear energy is created. What else can you call it?» she added.
