MOSCOW, March 9. /TASS/. Alexander Shulgin, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), informed the organization about Ukraine’s plans to arrange a provocation at an experimental nuclear reactor in Kharkov.
"At the plenary session yesterday, I touched upon the provocation which is being readied at the experimental [nuclear] reactor in Kharkov," he said on the Rossiya-24 news channel on Wednesday.
In addition, Shulgin said that he had told the OPCW about the attempts of Ukrainian sabotage groups to break into the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. In his opinion, a disaster might have occurred there, but was thwarted thanks to the Russian military.
"At yesterday’s plenary session, the Ukrainian representative was trying to present the case as if Russia was on the verge of generating a terribly perilous situation with radioactive contamination on the ground," the permanent representative added.
On February 24, Putin announced a special military operation in response to a request for help by the heads of the Donbass republics. He stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories, but aims to demilitarize and denazify the country. The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian troops are not targeting Ukrainian cities, but are incapacitating Ukrainian military infrastructure, therefore there are no threats to the civilian population.