President Zelensky’s address last night to his Ukrainian citizens explained that he had spent the day securing coordination with “the President of France, the Prime Minister of Sweden and the NATO Secretary General” to coordinate “our steps in the run-up to Vilnius,” that is, the NATO summit in Vilnius on July 11. “Every day we are adding content to the NATO Summit that will take place in Vilnius next week, and I am grateful to all our partners who are working with us to strengthen the Alliance and thus to ensure security in Europe—real security.... For peace to come sooner and to be lasting, fair and real, the Russian evil must see the limit we will set for the Kremlin’s ambitions.” There can be no “Russian terrorists” nor “any of their acts of blackmail and aggression.”
“Very importantly, the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The whole world must now realize that common security depends entirely on global attention to the actions of the occupiers at the plant. Russia must clearly realize that the world sees what scenarios terrorists are preparing for, and the world is ready to respond.... Now we have information from our intelligence that the Russian troops have placed objects resembling explosives on the roof of several power units of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.... [T]he world sees—can’t but see—that the only source of danger to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is Russia and no one else. Unfortunately, there was no timely and large-scale response to the terrorist attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. And this may incite the Kremlin to commit new evil. It is the responsibility of everyone in the world to stop it, no one can stand aside....”
