26/04/2022 11:43

Commissioner: 36 years after the Chernobyl accident, Russia puts the world on the brink of new, even more powerful disasters

36 years have passed since the world-wide ecological catastrophe - the Chernobyl accident, the consequences of which we are still feeling.

In 2016, the UN General Assembly declared April 26 the International Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl Accident and the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Radiation Accidents and Disasters, recognizing this catastrophe as a global tragedy.

The accident at the nuclear power plant took the lives of half a million people, radiation pollution covered about 200,000 square kilometers and turned the fertile Ukrainian lands into an exclusion zone.

For more than three decades, Ukraine, together with European countries, has continued to work to minimize the consequences of the accident for future generations.

Russia's terrorist country is once again putting the world on the brink of new and more powerful catastrophes.

The area of the Chornobyl NPP was captured, dug up by enemy equipment, mined and dismantled "for souvenirs".

Occupied by enemy troops, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the fate of which is decided by rashists on tanks and with machine guns.  Symbolically, today, on the anniversary of the tragedy, two cruise missiles of the Russian Federation flew over the city of Zaporizhia at a short distance from NPP.

The Neutron Source nuclear facility in Kharkiv Oblast is under constant fire.

The aggressor's media reports every day about the possibility and expediency of using nuclear weapons against Ukraine.

Such actions by the aggressor country are nothing but nuclear terrorism.

Nuclear power plants and other high-risk facilities in Ukraine must not be attacked under Article 56 of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I of 8 June 1977).

I call on the world community to prevent a recurrence of the Chernobyl disaster, which could destroy the lives of generations of peoples of Ukraine and Europe and take all possible measures to end hostilities in Ukraine.

Only together will we be able to stop the terrorist state and prevent a new tragedy!

I ask international partners to provide weapons to combat the aggressor of Russia!