Russia will be warned about consequences of terrorist attack on ZNPP - Ukraine’s Foreign Minister 

Kuleba made the statement in an interview with Suspilne. 

"A lot of diplomatic efforts will be underway now, and I think Russia will be warned about what will happen if it takes this step. Whether Russia will heed these warnings remains uncertain," Kuleba said. 

He added that the best way to prevent future tragedies is to provide Ukraine with all the weapons it needs to drive the Russians out of the temporarily occupied territories. 

"We never tire of repeating that the best way to prevent future tragedies created by Russia is to give Ukraine the weapons it needs to drive Russia out of Ukraine. We know that as long as Russia controls at least one square meter of our land, it will exploit it to orchestrate further tragedies," Kuleba emphasized. 

Information available regarding the situation at ZNPP

Russian troops occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP in late February 2022. Since then, personnel and military equipment have been permanently stationed there, which the invading forces store in the machine rooms and from time to time bring to positions to shell the territories of the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, located on the other side of the Kakhovka reservoir.

An IAEA monitoring mission is working there to ensure that the plant is not used as a military base, that the plant is not attacked or fired upon, and that external power supplies are not interrupted. However, blackouts at the NPP occur constantly. Since last year, Russian troops have started bringing explosives to ZNPP.

In May 2023, Russian forces had placed explosives in the turbine room of the fourth power unit of the occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP. They also almost completely destroyed the emergency preparedness and response system at the nuclear power plant.

On June 22, IAEA Director General Grossi said after visiting ZNPP that the situation there was extremely unstable.

On the same day, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that intelligence had received information that Russia was considering a scenario of a terrorist attack on the temporarily occupied ZNPP that would cause a radiation release. He also emphasized that the world has enough power to prevent any radiation incidents - it needs to put pressure and act.

Meanwhile, Russian leader’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Zelenskyy's statement a lie.