Vereshchuk urges people living near ZNPP to leave

Residents of Ukraine who are in the Russian-occupied territories and live directly near the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant should leave this territory as soon as possible. This was stated by Minister for Temporary Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk.

Find any opportunity and leave. Do not wait until the occupant, as we saw after they blew up the hydropower plant, has done nothing to help civilians. It will be like that in this case too," she pointed out.

Vereshchuk noted that the Russians may use local residents as a 'human shield' during the counter-attack by the AFU.

I sincerely hope that this will not happen, and I do not believe it ... but we must be ready. Our AFU is going at it, they're getting pretty "fired up". And you understand that they want to use our civilian population as a human shield. We should not let them do that, we need to leave, wait, we will de-occupy these territories, then we will return," she said.

It should be noted that Russia occupies the ZAZ, covers with it the shelling of neighbouring cities, keeps weapons and military there. Moreover, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that Russia had completed preparations for a possible terrorist act at the occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. Budanov believes that Russia may give the order for a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhya NPP after it is defeated on the left bank of the Dnipro river.