Гаряча лінія
Гаряча лінія
An unexploded «Tornado» projectile was found at the site of the Neutron Source nuclear facility in the Kharkiv region.
The presence of this warhead next to a subcritical nuclear installation poses a potential risk of explosion. Currently, it is impossible to neutralize the projectile due to constant hostilities in Kharkiv in general and directly in the area of the location of the nuclear installation, which has repeatedly come under fire.
As of today, it has been transferred to a deep subcritical state.
The Neutron Source facility, like any other nuclear facility, is not designed to operate in combat. Continued bombing or shelling could result in severe radiation effects.
The situation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is also deteriorating. Forests are burning near the station. 7 fires were recorded.
The area of forest fires in the exclusion zone exceeds the permissible values by tens of times. Ukrainian rescuers are hampered by fighting and the presence of russian occupiers in the fight against forest fires that have covered an area that significantly exceeds the permissible norms.
There is a significant deterioration in safety parameters and the state of the radiation situation.
Further escalation and fighting near nuclear facilities threaten to turn Ukraine and all of Eastern Europe into a nuclear desert.
The enemy daily violates the requirements of the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Hostile Use of Means of Environmental Influence and Article 56 of the 1977 Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions and Other Acts Regulating International Nuclear Obligations.
I reiterate the need for the IAEA to take all possible measures and take the nuclear facilities of Ukraine under its protection.