The European Union will discuss further sanctions on Russia on Tuesday as Moscow is accused of using Europe’s largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and use it to fire missiles around southern Ukraine.
Petro Kotin, head of Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Energoatom, said on the 15th that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, occupied by Russia, was “extremely tense”, adding that Russia is A power plant was deployed to deploy missile launchers, and the facility was used to bombard the Dnipro river area.
Zaporozhye is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.
The governor of eastern Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Reznichenko, said on the 16th that Russia used Grad rockets to bomb residential areas in the city of Nikopol. , causing a fire that killed at least 2 people.
The war in Ukraine continues and increasingly affects the global energy and food crisis, and EU foreign ministers are considering a ban on gold purchases from Russia.
The Group of Seven industrialized nations (G7) agreed at a summit in late June to ban imports of Russian gold.
In addition, more Russian figures will be added to the EU sanctions blacklist.
“Moscow must continue to pay a high price for its aggressive actions,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said following presenting the proposed measures.
Brussels is expected to hold preliminary discussions on the sanctions on the 18th, according to a senior EU official.
So far, the EU has adopted six waves of sanctions once morest Russia. The last wave of sanctions, passed in June, imposed an embargo on most Russian oil commodities.
It has been more than 20 weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, killing thousands of people in Ukraine and displacing millions.
However, Moscow still announced on the 16th that it would escalate its military operations. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has ordered a further increase in military pressure.
Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of intending to cause maximum harm to Ukraine, but vowed that “Ukraine will survive, Ukraine will win and rebuild our lives.”
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