{"id":10618,"date":"2022-09-12T12:40:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2022-09-12T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:40:45","slug":"putin-warns-france-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/putin-warns-france-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin warns France President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putin warns France President. President Vladimir Putin warned his French counterpart of the potential &#8220;catastrophic consequences&#8221; of what he said were Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>During a telephone call with Emmanuel Macron, Putin &#8220;drew attention to regular Ukrainian attacks on (Zaporizhzhia nuclear) facilities, including a radioactive waste storage facility, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences,&#8221; the Kremlin said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The largest nuclear power plant in Europe has been a focal point of fighting in recent weeks, raising concerns of a potential nuclear incident.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/putin-says-united-states-is-main-threat-to-russia.html\">Putin says United States is main threat to Russia<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Putin said Russian specialists at the plant were taking steps to ensure its safety and said Moscow was ready to continue work with the UN s atomic agency to agree on &#8220;non-politicised&#8221; solutions to problems at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>In the same call, Macron told Putin that &#8220;the Russian occupation&#8221; was the reason for the risks facing the plant, according to the French presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Macron asked Putin to withdraw &#8220;heavy and light weapons&#8221; from the site, the Elysee said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine s nuclear energy agency said Sunday the final reactor at Zaporizhzhia was shut off as a safety measure.<\/p>\n<p>During the call with Macron, Putin also accused Ukrainian forces of using Western-supplied weapons to target civilian infrastructure in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces have launched a major counter-offensive to wrest back control of swathes of the east and pro-Moscow rebels this weekend reported that separatists were fighting &#8220;difficult&#8221; battles with Kyiv s army in the Donetsk region in Donbas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin warns France President. President Vladimir Putin warned his French counterpart of the potential &#8220;catastrophic consequences&#8221; of what he said were Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine. During a telephone call with Emmanuel Macron, Putin &#8220;drew attention to regular Ukrainian attacks on (Zaporizhzhia nuclear) facilities, including a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[6771,532,2547,5744],"class_list":["post-10618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}