Zakharova said that Kyiv is “taking hostage the whole of Europe” by shelling the ZNPP

Zakharova stated that adherents of Bandera's ideology "choose as a goal not only the peoples of Russia and Ukraine."

“In fact, they are taking hostage the whole of Europe and, apparently, they are not averse to setting it on fire for the sake of their Nazi idols,” the representative of the Foreign Ministry noted, commenting on the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense called the strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant nuclear terrorism.

According to the ministry, on August 7, due to shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a power surge occurred at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which caused smoke on the open switchgear of the station.