Initiatives to restore security are doomed to fail without a withdrawal of troops, Ukrainian president says
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/CARL COURT
His comments followed a meeting with Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency , at the Dnipro hydroelectric power station, northeast of the Zaporizhzhia plant. Grossi, who has repeatedly called for a safety zone around it, is due to visit it again this week. He has tried to negotiate with both sides but said in January that brokering a deal was getting harder.Zaporizhzhia is one of four regions Russia claimed to annex in September after referendums that were criticised globally as shams. Russia views the plant as its territory, which Ukraine denies.
Belarus’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it has agreed to host the nuclear weapons to protect itself after years of “unprecedented pressure” from the West. It said the move did not contravene international non-proliferation agreements.Putin’s war has devastated Ukrainian cities and towns, caused the deaths of thousands of people and forced millions more to flee their homes, while also sharply raising global food and energy prices and worsening tensions worldwide.
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