Zelensky: All 15 nuclear units in Ukraine are under threat

"There are four operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine today - that's 15 nuclear units, and all of them are under threat because of the war," President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said, addressing the Japanese Parliament, Report informs, citing UNIAN.

Zelensky noted that everyone knows what Chernobyl is - a nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where a powerful explosion occurred in 1986.

"The radiation discharge. Its consequences were recorded in different parts of the planet. The 30-kilometer zone around the Chernobyl station is still closed. It is dangerous," Zelensky said.

At the same time, he stressed that on February 24, Russian armored vehicles drove over this very land, raising radioactive dust into the air.

He recalled that Russian troops had already shelled the Zaporizhzhia NPPs, the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe.

In addition, the president of Ukraine stated that hundreds of industrial facilities were damaged due to hostilities, and many of them are especially dangerous.

"Shells threaten gas and oil pipelines. Coal mines. Russian troops recently also fired at a chemical plant in the Sumy region of Ukraine, causing ammonia leakage. We are being warned about possible chemical attacks, in particular with the use of Zarin gas, as it was in Syria," Zelensky said.