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"Misses for rockets of the Russian Federation". Ukraine in the UN urged to close the sky over all Ukrainian NPPs

On June 5, the Russian rocket was critically low over the South Ukrainian NPP (photo: a screenshot video of Energoatom/Telegram), Deputy Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Mykola Tochytsky called on the UN to close the sky over all Ukrainian NPPs to avoid threats from the Russian Federation. He said this at a conference on a non -proliferation of nuclear weapons, Ukrinform writes.

"For the first time in history, civilian nuclear objects were transformed into military objects and bridgeheads of the Russian army - violating the provisions of the Nuclear Weapons Treaty for the peaceful use of nuclear energy," Totchitsky said. He stressed that the world "witnessed how nuclear terrorism, sponsored by a nuclear state.

"We ask that we close the sky over nuclear power plants in Ukraine, to protect the air defense systems, to prove the case that the aggressor cannot be left without any punishment only because it has nuclear weapons," the Deputy Head of the Foreign Ministry said. Energoatom's press service explained that it was a specific military regime that closes the airspace over a certain territory of the country for aircraft of a particular state or military bloc.

This will completely isolate air and ground fighting near this territory. “There are currently 15 nuclear power units in Ukraine, each of which can be a target for Russian aviation or rocket artillery. The closed sky over these objects guarantees pan -European security and will make it impossible for Russian blackmail, ”Tochitsky summarized. Since March 4, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, Zaporizhzhya NPP, was captured by Russian invaders after heavy battles in Energodar.