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Aug. 14 () –
The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, has asked this Saturday to impose sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry for the “threat” of Moscow in the vicinity of the Zaporizhia plant, after the Russian troops took control of it.
Russia is “trying to intimidate” people by using the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, Zelensky has recriminated in his daily video addressed to the Ukrainian population.
“(Russian troops) organize constant provocations with bombing of the territory of the nuclear power plant and try to push their additional forces in this direction to further blackmail our state and the entire free world,” the president denounced.
Thus, Zelensky has accused Russian troops of using this area occupied by Moscow to shoot at the towns of Nikopol and Marhanez. Therefore, he has warned that these actions increase “the radioactive threat to Europe to levels that did not exist even in the most difficult moments of confrontation during the Cold War.”
In this way, the Ukrainian president has urged a “hard reaction”. “Ukrainian diplomats and representatives of partner states will do everything possible to ensure that the new sanctions against Russia necessarily block the Russian nuclear industry,” he said.
Zelensky, too, has called for those involved in “the blackmail operation with the nuclear plant” to answer before an international court.
“Any Russian soldier who shoots at the station or shoots under cover of the station must understand that he is becoming a special target for our intelligence, for our special services, for our army,” the leader added.
In addition, Zelensky has celebrated the success of grain exports since kyiv and Moscow reached an agreement thanks to negotiations with Turkey and the United Nations.
“Since its implementation, a total of 16 grain ships for seven countries on three continents have left Ukrainian ports (…). Nearly half a million tons of agricultural products are on board,” he specified.
“This has already made it possible to reduce the severity of the food crisis and has given some hope of peace to the countries that consume our agricultural products,” he said before adding that exports have “significant benefits”, in turn, for Ukraine.
In this way, he has described that the three ports in charge of said exports have managed to export in less than two weeks the same volume as all agricultural exports by road in July and more than two thirds of exports by rail last month.
“I want to emphasize once again: these are jobs for our people, these are the funds needed for our planting next year, and these are the revenues from our state budget,” he said.
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