“They are taking an abnormal position, because the risks are very high, and, of course, they, using their influence on Kyiv, could and should have called on the Ukrainian side ... to stop shelling,” TASS quoted him as saying.
He added that on August 11, the West will have such an opportunity at a meeting of the UN Security Council, but there is no certainty that the right words will be uttered.
As Ulyanov noted, with statements like those made by the G7 countries, they encourage further attacks by Kyiv.
“By the way, Zaporozhye NPP is under the control of Ukrainian personnel.
The Russian side does not interfere in the work of this personnel,” the diplomat stressed.
Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, earlier warned that in the event of an accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant due to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a global man-made disaster would occur that would exceed the scale of the consequences of accidents at nuclear power plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Volodymyr Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, suggested that the Ukrainian military deliberately shelled the ZNPP, trying to force Russia to withdraw its military from there.