The United States and its allies accused Russia on Friday of attacking Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant and putting the lives of millions of Europeans at risk of radiation fallout, but Russia claimed a 'Ukrainian sabotage group' was responsible for setting fire to a nearby training facility.
UNITED NATIONS -- The United States and its allies accused Russia on Friday of attacking Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant and putting the lives of millions of Europeans at risk of radiation fallout, but Russia claimed a "Ukrainian sabotage group" was responsible for setting fire to a nearby training facility.
He said the IAEA was informed a few days ago by Russia that its forces were moving to take control of the plant. Their advance toward its perimeter "was met with opposition and some group of civilians attacking the access to the plant," he said, and early Friday the IAEA "got information that a projectile had impact a building adjacent to the block of reactors -- six of them."
In doing so, she said, it had breached international law and the Geneva Convention on the conduct of war which states that "dams, dykes and nuclear electrical generating stations, shall not be made the object of attack." Dr. Alex Rosen, a pediatrician and vice-president of the German affiliate of the Nobel prize-winning group International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said the attack "clearly shows the danger of fighting war in a nuclear state."
He claimed Russia took control of Enerhodar and the Zaporizhzhia on Feb. 28 and reached agreement with the plant's management for the Russian military to guard the facility to ensure its security "to prevent the Ukrainian nationalist or other terrorist forces from taking advantage of the current situation to organize a nuclear provocation."
For Russia and Belarus which as neighbors lived through the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Nebenzia said, maintaining "a normal radiation situation" throughout Ukraine is important. And he again blamed "Ukrainian nationalists" for the incident at the plant and accused the West of attempting "to blow it into a global scandal."
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