Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says in a Twitter post that he discussed the issue of “Russian nuclear terrorism” at the Ukrainian Zaporizhia nuclear power plant during his phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. The Ukrainian president would not elaborate on the conversation about the Zaporizhia station, which Russian forces seized in March after […]
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Macron will have a phone conversation with Zelensky about the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
French President Emmanuel Macron will today have a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky about the situation at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control in southern Ukraine. The two leaders will communicate “mainly to talk about the situation around the Zaporizhia station,” the French presidency announced. This station, the […]
Zelensky: The world will lose if no action is taken on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
The world will lose to terrorism and succumb to nuclear blackmail if steps are not taken to prevent an accident at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday, according to Reuters. “If now the world does not show strength and determination to defend a nuclear power plant, it will […]
Zelensky wants sanctions on Russia’s nuclear power industry
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West on Saturday night to impose sanctions on Russia’s nuclear industry, amid an exchange of blame between Kyiv and Moscow over attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest. Russia is using this factory in southern Ukraine to terrorize the world and blackmail the Ukrainian political leadership […]
Zelensky: Russians firing at or from Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in our sights
Ukraine is targeting Russian soldiers who fire at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant or use it as a base to fire from, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. “Every Russian soldier who either shoots at the station, or shoots using the station as cover, must understand that he is becoming a target for our […]
Zelensky: EU should not be ‘supermarket’ for Russians with money
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday Friday made a new appeal to the member states of the European Union to ban the granting of passport visas to all citizens of Russia, in order to become a “supermarket” for anyone who has the means to travel to them. He hastened to add that this proposal does not […]
Zelensky demands an end to statements about army tactics
Ukraine’s president demanded on Thursday that officials of the state apparatus stop talking to journalists about the tactics of his country’s forces against Russia, which Volodymyr Zelensky called “frankly irresponsible”. After the explosions at a Russian airbase in Crimea on Tuesday, the New York Times and Washington Post, citing unnamed officials, said it was an […]
Zelensky: Russia lost nine fighter jets to explosions in Crimea
Russia has lost nine fighter jets in explosions at an airbase in Crimea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, according to Bloomberg. “Within a single day, the occupiers lost 10 fighter jets, nine in Crimea and one more in the direction of Zaporizhia,” Zelensky said in a video message. He also noted that further Russian armored […]
Zelensky: The war with Russia must end with the liberation of Crimea
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a speech last night that the war with Russia will not end until the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014, is liberated. “Crimea is Ukrainian and we will never leave it,” he said. “The Black Sea region cannot be secure as long as Crimea is […]
V. Zelensky: If Russia holds referendums in the occupied territories, there can be no talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that if Russia goes ahead with plans to hold referendums in the country’s occupied territories on its union with Russia, there can be no talks with Ukraine or its international allies. “If the occupiers go down the road of fake referendums, they will foreclose any possibility of talks with […]