‘Putin wants to attack nuclear power plants in Ukraine’
According to Ukrainian President Zelensky, Putin is looking for ways to ‘break the Ukrainian spirit’. Energy infrastructure would be a target of the Russian president.
Zelensky stated this in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.
‘Russia has destroyed all our thermal power plants and a large part of our hydroelectric capacity. This is how Putin is preparing for winter, hoping to torment millions of Ukrainians,’ Zelensky said. 'Putin wants to leave them in the dark and [force] Ukraine to suffer and surrender.'
According to Zelensky, Putin has plans to attack Ukraine's nuclear power plants and energy infrastructure. He further warns that such an attack could lead to a ‘nuclear disaster at one of our nuclear power plants’, resulting in radiation that ‘will not respect state border’.
(Tagtik/Source: Guardian, NY Times/Illustration picture: Unsplash)