Putin assures Macron that Ukraine’s nuclear facilities are not Russia’s military objective

The Russian President, Vladimir Putinassured this Sunday to Emmanuel Macron that it has no intention of attacking nuclear installations in Ukraineand said that he agrees to guarantee its safety under the technical criteria of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

According to the account given by the Elysee of the telephone conversation with the French president, which lasted for an hour and three quarters, Putin He denied that civilians are a military target, and blamed the Ukrainian authorities for letting people out of besieged cities.

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Macronfor his part, pointed out to him that the Army that is attacking is the Russian, that it is not credible that it is the Ukrainian that is endangering the civilian population and -according to the account of the French presidency- he put him “in front of of its responsibilities as a belligerent.

The head of the French State reiterated, always according to Eliseo, his demand for the military operations to cease and for humanitarian law to be “fully” respected.

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Regarding nuclear power plants, after the Russian attack last Friday on the Zaporizhzhiawhich caused a fire in an administrative building a few hundred meters from the six reactors, France had proposed a series of measures based on IAEA rules.

Macron insisted before Putin in “the need” that all military installations comply with these rules, under the sovereignty of Ukraine, and that none be the object of war operations.

The Russian president agreed to work under the technical parameters of the IAEA, which tomorrow must meet with its council of governors and from which concrete proposals are expected.

Today’s was the fourth telephone conversation between Putin and Macron since the beginning of the war.

The last dialogue between the two leaders took place last Thursday and the conclusion of the French president at the time was that the worst was yet to come.

Macron insists on keeping open the channel of dialogue with the head of the Kremlin despite the invasion of Ukraineand in parallel the Ukrainian president, once again called on Westerners to close their country’s air skies to prevent bombings and missiles.

In a video posted on his Telegram account, Volodymyr Zelensky denounced this Sunday the destruction of an airport near the city of Vinnytsiain the west, due to the impact of eight Russian missiles, and above all, he insisted on his message to NATO allies: “Close the sky over Ukraine.”

“We are people and their humanitarian duty is to protect people and they can do it”stressed Zelenskywho added that if Ukrainian airspace is not closed, allow them to defend themselves by offering them planes.

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Source: Elcomercio

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