The Ukrainian president also assured the UN General Assembly that he would “never” accept a peace agreement with Moscow that would be “imposed” on him by the major powers.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, September 25, accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of planning attacks on Ukraine’s nuclear infrastructure and insisted that his country would “never” accept a peace agreement with Moscow that was “imposed” on it by the major powers.
Dressed in his usual military attire, the Ukrainian head of state who has become a warlord since the Russian invasion of February 2022 spoke from the podium of the UN General Assembly to demand even more support from his Western allies.
After more than two and a half years of war, he accused President Putin of planning to bomb Ukraine’s civilian nuclear power plants, which would have catastrophic consequences.
“Alarming information”
“I have recently received further alarming information from our intelligence services. Putin now appears to be planning attacks on our nuclear facilities and their infrastructure,” Volodymyr Zelensky told representatives of the United Nations member states gathered for the 79th UN General Assembly in New York.
“Any critical incident in the energy system could lead to a nuclear catastrophe. A day that must never come,” warned the Ukrainian president, looking serious and speaking in English.
“Moscow must understand this and it partly depends on your determination to put pressure on the aggressor,” he told his audience.
While Volodymyr Zelensky had urged on Tuesday, before the UN Security Council and in the presence of Russia, to “force” Moscow to put an end to the war, he rejected before the General Assembly any peace agreement that would be “imposed” on his country by the “great powers”, also questioning the “real interest” of China and Brazil in this case.
