Zelensky: Occupiers' attempts to seize Chornobyl NPP is declaration of war against Europe

President Volodymyr Zelensky has named that the Russian occupiers' attempts to seize the Chornobyl nuclear power plant a declaration of war against the whole of Europe.

Zelensky wrote this on his Twitter account, Ukrinform reports.

“Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the Chornobyl NPP. Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated. Reported this to Swedish PM Magdalena Andersson,” Zelensky wrote.

“This is a declaration of war against the whole of Europe,” he stressed.

As reported, the head of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, announced the start of a special military operation in Donbas. At about 04:00, on February 24, Russia attacked Ukraine and launched a war.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved a presidential decree on the imposition of martial law throughout Ukraine.

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