A Russian military convoy on the road to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. He said this brings the notion of having “a human shield to an entirely different and horrific level”. Most recently, Blinken said Russia seized Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhya and is using it as a military base to fire at Ukrainians, “knowing that they can’t and won’t shoot back because they might accidentally strike a nuclear reactor or highly radioactive waste in storage”. Putin said his country “consistently follows the letter and spirit” of the NPT and expects all parties to “strictly comply with their commitments” and make “a significant contribution” at the conference to strengthening the non-proliferation regime “to ensure peace, security and stability in the world”. “We believe that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, and we stand for equal and indivisible security for all members of the world community,” the Russian leader said. Putin appeared to roll back on his nuclear warning in a message of greetings to NPT participants posted on his website Monday. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock accused Russia of “brutally violating the assurances” it gave Ukraine in 1994 and said Moscow’s “reckless nuclear rhetoric” since its invasion of its smaller neighbour “is putting at risk everything the NPT has achieved in five decades”. He stressed that Russia’s threat to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war has contributed “to worldwide concern that yet another catastrophe by nuclear weapon use is a real possibility”. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said divisions in the world since the last review conference in 2015, which ended without a consensus document, have become greater. The United Nations chief warned on Monday that ‘humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation’, at a meeting to discuss the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. This was contrary to assurances given to Ukraine of its sovereignty and independence when it gave up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in 1994, Blinken said, and sends “the worst possible message” to any country thinking it needs nuclear weapons to defend itself and deter aggression. He cited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning after its February 24 invasion that any attempt to interfere would lead to “consequences you have never seen”, emphasising that his country is “one of the most potent nuclear powers”. He said Iran “has either been unwilling or unable” to accept a deal to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement aimed at reining in its nuclear program, and Russia is “engaged in reckless, dangerous nuclear sabre-rattling” in Ukraine. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said North Korea was preparing to conduct its seventh nuclear test. The conference will review progress and agree to future steps to implement the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, known as the NPT. The danger of increasing nuclear threats and a nuclear catastrophe was also raised by the United States, Japan, Germany, the UN nuclear chief and many other opening speakers.
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