28/03/2022 14:57

Commissioner: Using nuclear power plants as a shelter and a means of influencing the course of the war, Russia is deliberately endangering the whole of Europe

The growing military presence of racist troops in the exclusion zone and near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant threatens to damage insulation facilities built over the station's fourth unit after its 1986 explosion.

This will inevitably lead to the release of significant amounts of radioactive dust and contamination of Ukraine and European countries.

Ignoring the strict safety rules at the nuclear facility, the occupiers are transporting and storing a significant amount of ammunition in the immediate vicinity of the nuclear power plant.

Dozens of tons of rockets, artillery shells, mortar ammunition are transported daily by rashists.

The transport corridor of the invaders passes through the city of Pripyat and a few hundred meters from the isolation facilities of the nuclear power plant.  Further ammunition is stored in the city of Chernobyl, near the city of Pripyat, which is also a short distance from the nuclear power plant.

There is a high risk of detonation of ammunition during loading and transportation.

Using nuclear power plants as a shelter and a means of influencing the course of the war, the troops of the Russian Federation deliberately endanger the whole of Europe.  Such actions are in direct violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Force or Any Hostile to the Environment and Article 56 of the 1977 Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions and Other Acts Regulating International Obligations in the Nuclear Obligation.

I call on international partners and the IAEA to take all possible measures to withdraw the troops of the Russian Federation from the territories of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and take it and other nuclear facilities of Ukraine under its protection.