The Russian Foreign Ministry called Yakovlev's murder an attempt to threaten the operation of the station.

The attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which killed Alexander Yakovlev, an engineer at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, is an attempt by Kiev to endanger the safe operation of the plant. This was announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry on July 15.

"This criminal step by Kiev is another attempt to endanger the safe operation of the NPP and intimidate its employees. The Nazi-Bandera regime is building illusions that it will be able to put pressure on our country in this way, and at the same time it is blackmailing its Western masters, demanding more and more money and weapons," the publication says on the website of the Foreign Ministry.

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