By deliberately striking the shelter over the 4th power unit of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Russia has once again demonstrated its complete unwillingness to seek peace, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated during a media briefing at the Munich Security Conference.
"The drone was flying at an altitude of 85 meters. It is important to understand that radar systems do not detect objects at this height. There will, of course, be an investigation, but this already gives us reason to say that they did this intentionally," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
He emphasized that the drone strike directly hit the Chornobyl sarcophagus, one of the most hazardous sites in Europe, which was constructed with the help of 40 countries. The President also underscored that Russia launched this attack on the very day the Munich Security Conference began.
"To me, this is a very clear ‘message’ from Putin and the Russian Federation regarding the security conference. I don’t know what others think, but he certainly does not want peace. At least not under the conditions he is in today. I believe those conditions are quite comfortable for him – comfortable enough to strike the Chornobyl plant. A person who is truly under pressure from different sides would not do this. Someone who genuinely seeks dialogue and wants to end the war would not do this, in my opinion," the President said.