There is a risk of explosion in Chernobyl, Russian soldiers should withdraw

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verechuk said that the Russian forces, which seized the power as a result of danger of explosion in Chernobyl, ought to withdraw instantly.

Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Verechuk mentioned that there’s a danger of explosion of ammunition on the Chernobyl nuclear energy plant and that the Russian forces occupying the power ought to instantly withdraw. Verechuk said that the warning of the explosion got here from the Ukrainian armed forces.

“We demand that the United Nations Safety Council take fast motion to demilitarize Chernobyl, which is the forbidden zone, and provoke a particular UN mission to the area to reduce the chance of a nuclear catastrophe once more,” the Ukrainian official mentioned. Verechuk additionally introduced that Ukraine requested Russia to permit the opening of 97 humanitarian corridors within the villages and cities most affected by the assaults, throughout the negotiations held in Istanbul yesterday.

Firstly of the Ukrainian invasion, the Russian military’s seize of the plant in Chernobyl precipitated considerations {that a} new leak would possibly happen on the plant, the place the nuclear catastrophe came about in 1986.