New sanctions must target Russia’s nuclear industry – Zelenskyy

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO – SATURDAY, 13 AUGUST 2022, 22:09

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine and its partner countries would insist that new sanctions against Russia target the nuclear industry of the aggressor state.

Source: President Zelenskyy’s video address

Quote: "The occupiers are using the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in extremely cynical ways to try to intimidate people. They actually hide behind the plant to fire at [the cities of] Nikopol and Marhanets. They engage in relentless provocations, including shelling the territory of the nuclear power plant and attempting to deploy additional forces in this area in order to further intimidate our state and the entire free world.

If someone over there, in Russia, thinks that they will be able to achieve something with these actions, then they are wrong. The only thing Russian blackmail will achieve is the growing mobilisation of global efforts to confront terror. Every day the Russian troops remain on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia NPP and in the neighbouring areas, the radiation threat to Europe rises to a level far greater than that at the peak of the confrontation during the Cold War.

Of course, there should be a robust response to this. Ukrainian diplomats and representatives of partner states will do everything to ensure that new sanctions against Russia target the Russian nuclear industry."

Details: Zelenskyy also stressed that every official working for the terrorist state, as well as those who help them in "this blackmail operation with the nuclear power plant", must be tried by an international court. 

"And every Russian soldier who either shoots at the plant, or uses the plant as a cover, must understand that they will be a special target of our intelligence, of our secret service, of our army," the president concluded.

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