Moscow says UN secretariat’s stance on Kyiv’s bombing of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is unscrupulous

The UN Secretariat takes an unprincipled position in light of the Ukrainian bombing of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, deliberately distorting the situation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News/Sputnik – Aug 26, 2022) The UN Secretariat is taking an unprincipled stance in light of the Ukrainian bombing of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, deliberately distorting the situation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

“We have taken note of the statements of the official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stéphane Dujarric, broadcast in the media regarding the difficult situation in the ZNPP, which continues to suffer heavy bombardments from Ukraine,” the statement said. . “One gets the impression that while the Ukrainian ZNPP bombardment continues, the UN headquarters simply refuses to see the reality. This is an unprincipled position.”

The ministry stressed that in the statements of the official representative of the UN Secretary General, not a word was said about the source of the threats against the kyiv elite and the armed formations controlled by it.

“The only thing we hear again and again from the mouth of the official representative of the UN Secretary General is incitement to the international mission of the IAEA at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. When it is claimed that the shutdown of the power plants of this plant is a reminder of why it is so important to get the IAEA technical team to the ZNPP as soon as possible, the situation is deliberately distorted,” the ministry added.

Ukrainian troops are intensifying the shelling of the ZNPP, six more shells have been fired in the last hour, the press service of the municipal administration of Energodar reported. Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian forces launched an artillery strike on the ZNPP on Friday. Four impacts on the ZNPP were recorded in the radioactive isotope storage area.