MOSCOW, 29 Jun. Residents of Kyiv will not feel the consequences in the event of an accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, said Minister of Health of Ukraine Viktor Lyashko. He was quoted by the Strana.ua newspaper.
“Kyiv is beyond influence,” the official assured.
According to him, the department has developed and tested warning systems that will work in the event of an emergency at the station. Lyashko also urged not to create panic and artificial excitement around this topic.
In mid-June, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that he had received a report from intelligence and the SBU that Russia could allegedly arrange a terrorist attack with a release of radiation at the ZNPP. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called these words nonsense. Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, noted that the «increasing paranoid statements» of the Kyiv authorities are alarming. He recalled that the IAEA mission visited the station in June.