Nuclear facility safety indeed cannot be separated from the broader political resolution framework, but the premise of dialogue and negotiations is that all parties must first stop their actions. Right now, cooling down this situation is no easy task.

CoinWorld News: A routine press conference was hosted by Lin Jian, a spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A reporter from Ukrinform asked a question: the Ukrainian side said that Russia has attacked a spent nuclear fuel storage facility—an additional action to deliberately target Ukraine’s nuclear facilities following Russia’s occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant—which poses a threat to Ukraine’s nuclear safety and radiation safety. How does China assess Russia’s continued attacks on Ukraine’s nuclear facilities? Lin Jian said that China attaches great importance to the safety of nuclear facilities and believes that the ultimate resolution of nuclear safety issues depends on the prospects for a political solution to the Ukraine crisis. Dialogue and negotiations are the only viable way forward. China calls on the relevant parties to work together to cool down the situation as soon as possible and create conditions for restarting dialogue and negotiations.