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Zelensky warns that the Chernobyl disaster could be repeated in Zaporizhzhia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the international community on Monday to press Russia to return the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, warning against a new Chernobyl-like catastrophe nearly four decades ago.
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"The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was occupied for 35 days. Russian soldiers looted laboratories, captured guards and abused the staff, using them as human shields to launch new hostilities," Zelensky said in a speech on the 38th anniversary of the nuclear disaster (1986), marked today.
"Radiation knows no borders and does not distinguish between national flags. The Chernobyl disaster showed the world how quickly deadly threats can arise," said Zelensky, who recognized the work of "tens of thousands of people" to prevent these "terrible consequences".
The Ukrainian President sought to draw a parallel between that episode and the current situation at the Zaporizhzhia power plant, "held hostage", he stressed, by Russian "terrorists".
"The whole world has a duty to pressure Russia to release the plant and return it to the full control of Ukraine," he said, stating that only then will it be possible to "ensure that the world does not suffer new radiological disasters, exactly the threat that exists every day with the presence of Russian invaders in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant".
Since March 4, 2022, less than two weeks after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been under Russian control.
It is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and has not produced electricity since September 11, 2022. Its six reactors are in cold shutdown mode.
A mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an agency that is part of the United Nations system, has been permanently on site since September 4, 2022. However, this has not prevented the facilities from being the scene of attacks for which Russians and Ukrainians accuse each other.
The worst nuclear accident in history occurred on April 26, 1986 in Ukraine - which was, at the time, one of the 15 Soviet republics - when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant, located about 100 kilometers from Kiev, exploded, contaminating about three quarters of Europe, especially Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
It is estimated that around 350,000 people were displaced and that the health of many thousands was affected, directly or indirectly, by the effects of the accident.
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