Moscow dismisses as nonsense alleged Russia plans to blow up ZNPP

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has slammed allegations from the West and Kyiv that Russia is plotting to blow up the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) as nonsense.

"This is utter nonsense, we have said this many times," he said in an interview with the RT television channel on June 26, TASS reports.

"The fact that this overused warning has been surfacing in the media space for some time, primarily out of the mouths of the Kiev regime’s representatives, means only one thing: these people have been trained to wage information warfare by the Anglo-Saxons, the Poles and even by the Balts, who have become senior comrades for Ukraine," he said.

"If the results of this training are as deplorable as they are unconvincing, then I am sorry for the money Western taxpayers have to spend to pay the wages of the instructors who are training such unfit and inept pupils," Lavrov said.