{"id":625361,"date":"2022-09-12T00:31:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T04:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/?p=625361"},"modified":"2022-09-11T23:09:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T03:09:56","slug":"attacks-at-ukraine-nuclear-plant-could-be-catastrophic-warns-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/625361\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacks at Ukraine nuclear plant could be &#8216;catastrophic&#8217;, warns Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-625362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/putin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/>MOSCOW &#8211; President Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned his French counterpart of the potential &#8220;catastrophic consequences&#8221; of what he said were Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>During a telephone call with Emmanuel Macron, Putin &#8220;drew attention to regular Ukrainian attacks on (Zaporizhzhia nuclear) facilities, including a radioactive waste storage facility, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences,&#8221; the Kremlin said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The largest nuclear power plant in Europe has been a focal point of fighting in recent weeks, raising concerns of a potential nuclear incident.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said Russian specialists at the plant were taking steps to ensure its safety and said Moscow was ready to continue work with the UN\u00a0s atomic agency to agree on &#8220;non-politicised&#8221; solutions to problems at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>In the same call, Macron told Putin that &#8220;the Russian occupation&#8221; was the reason for the risks facing the plant, according to the French presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Macron asked Putin to withdraw &#8220;heavy and light weapons&#8221; from the site, the Elysee said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u00a0s nuclear energy agency said Sunday the final reactor at Zaporizhzhia was shut off as a safety measure.<\/p>\n<p>During the call with Macron, Putin also accused Ukrainian forces of using Western-supplied weapons to target civilian infrastructure in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces have launched a major counter-offensive to wrest back control of swathes of the east and pro-Moscow rebels this weekend reported that separatists were fighting &#8220;difficult&#8221; battles with Kyiv\u00a0s army in the Donetsk region in Donbas.<\/p>\n<p>(AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW &#8211; President Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned his French counterpart of the potential &#8220;catastrophic consequences&#8221; of what he said were Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine. During a telephone call with Emmanuel Macron, Putin &#8220;drew attention to regular Ukrainian attacks on (Zaporizhzhia nuclear) facilities, including a radioactive waste storage facility, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences,&#8221; the Kremlin said in a statement. The largest nuclear power plant in Europe has been a focal point of fighting in recent weeks, raising concerns&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":625362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}