According to numerous concordant reports, the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant (Enerhodar) is riddled with mines and explosives. More specifically, according to Ukrainian intelligence services, the Russian army has placed explosives in four of the six units at the plant.
In addition, the world has just witnessed the loss of human life, including among Russian soldiers, and the destruction of infrastructure and a vast ecosystem following the blasting of the Kakhovka dam by the Russian occupying forces.
The explosion of this dam is just another episode in the strategy of the political and military authorities of the Russian Federation to terrorise the population and systematically destroy Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure.
In view of Moscow’s complete disregard for human life, NATO countries must anticipate the possibility that the Russian authorities will include a nuclear accident at the Zaporizhia power station in their military strategy for Ukraine.
As US Senators Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham have pointed out, an explosion at the Zaporizhia nuclear complex or a major incident following an interruption in the cooling system would result in a major catastrophe for Ukraine and the states in the region, including a number of NATO member states.
In order to avert such a threat, the Russian Federation should be invited to:
– Immediately withdraw all its soldiers from the site of the Zaporizhia power plant;
– have the Russian military, under the supervision of UN experts, neutralise all explosive material and any other weapons on the site of the power station;
– guarantee free and permanent access to the plant for members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
In the absence of a positive and rapid response from the Russian authorities, we ask NATO to take all necessary initiatives, including military ones, to make the Russian authorities understand that this is a red line for the Atlantic Alliance.
Signatories
Cengiz Aktar, professor of political science at the University of Athens
Vera Ammer, Memorial Deutschland, member of the board of International Memorial (2010-2023), Germany
Katarina Ammitzbøll, former member of Parliament, Denmark
Michèle Amzallag, professor, Sorbonne University, France
Guillaume Ancel, lieutenant-colonel (ret.), writer, essayist, France
Antoine Arjakovsky, director of research, Collège des Bernardins, Board member of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience, France
Olga Artyushkina, senior lecturer in Russian grammar and linguistics, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
Anders Åslund, economist and former senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, Sweden
Nicolas Auzanneau, translator, France/Belgium
Gérard Bensussan, philosopher, professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg, France
Olga Bertelsen, associate professor of Global Security and Intelligence, Tiffin University, USA
Annick Bilobran-Karmazyn, President of ADVULE, France
Marie-Aline Bloch, honorary professor at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, France
Vassilios Bogiatzis, PhD-Historian, research and teaching Associate, Panteion University, Greece
Christian Booß, historian and journalist, Germany
Martin Böttger, physicist, former member of parliament „Sächsischer Landtag“, Germany
Jean-Loup Bourget, emeritus professor of film studies, Ecole normale supérieure, France
Sara Brajbart-Zajtman, philosopher, former director of “Regards”, a progressive Jewish magazine, Belgium
Gastone Breccia, military historian, researcher at University of Pavia, Italy
Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, professor emeritus, Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy
Matthias Büchner, speaker of “Neues Forum”, former member of Parliament Landtag Thüringen, Erfurt, Germany
Daniela Luigia Caglioti, professor of contemporary history, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Marco Cappato, former member of the European Parliament, Italy
Paulo Casaca, former member of the Portuguese Parliament, former member of the European Parliament
Arnaud Castaignet, senior fellow, Open Diplomacy, France
Giovanni Catelli, writer, poet, Eastjournal correspondent, Italy
Mitch Cohen, German-English translator and editor for English, Germany
Dominique Colas, professor emeritus of political science, Sciences Po, Paris, France
Michel Collot, professor of french literature at the University of Paris III, specialising in modern and contemporary french poetry, France
Christophe D’Aloisio, researcher affiliated to the Research Institute Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (RSCS, UCLouvain), director of the Institute of Orthodox Theology in Brussels, Belgium
Annie Daubenton, journalist, essayist and consultant, specialising in central and eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Ukraine), France
Julia David, associate member of the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History (CNRS/ENS), France
Isabelle de Mecquenem, professor of philosophy, University of Reims, member of the Conseil des sages de laïcité et des valeurs de la République at the Ministry of Education, France
Christian Dietrich, president of the International Association of Former Political Prisoners and Victims of Communism, Germany
Massimiliano Di Pasquale, associate researcher at the Gino Germani Foundation, Italy
Ana Miguel dos Santos, lawyer, former member of Parliament, Portugal
Jean Bernard Dupont-Melnyczenko, professor of history, honorary dean of the College of academic inspectors of the Académie d’Amiens, France
Olivier Dupuis, former member of the European Parliament, Belgium
Emmanuel Dupuy, president of the Institute for Prospective and Security in Europe (IPSE), France
Martin Exner, member of Parliament, Czech Republic
Penelope Faulkner, vice-president of Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam, France
Andrej Findor, associate professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Jean-Louis Fournel, professor at the University of Paris 8, France
Mridula Ghosh, senior lecturer of international relations, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, board chair of the East European Development Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
Sébastien Gobert, journalist, France/Ukraine
Bernard Golse, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, professor at the University of Paris V-René Descartes, founder of the Institut Contemporain de l’Enfance, France
Marija Golubeva, historian, former member of Parliament, former Minister of the Interior, Latvia
Oleksii Goncharenko, member of Parliament, vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe committee on migration, refugees and displaced persons, Ukraine
Svetlana Gorshenina, historian, art historian, historiographer and specialist on Central Asia, director of research at CNRS Eur’Orbem, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
Iegor Gran, writer, France
Andrea Graziosi, professor of contemporary history, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Steffen Michael Gresch, actor and author, member of the opposition in East-Germany in the 1980s, Germany
Paul Grod, president, Ukrainian World Congress, USA
Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse, professor, University of Warsaw, head of department of European Union Policies at the Institute of European Studies, Poland
Florence Hartmann, journalist and essayist, former spokesman for the ICTY prosecutor (Yugoslavia & Rwanda), France
Pavel Havlicek, research fellow at the Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic
Oleksandr Havrylenko, professor at the V.N. Karazin National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Richard Herzinger, columnist, Berlin, Germany
Gerold Hildebrand, former member of oppositional Environmental Library in East-Berlin, Germany
Halyna Hryn, editor, Harvard Ukrainian studies, president of Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US
Yaroslav Hrytsak, professor, Ukrainian Catholic University of Lviv, Ukraine
Christian Kaunert, professor of International Security Policy, Dublin City University and University of South Wales
Oliver Kloss, Politologist, former member of the subversive resistance in East Germany, Human Rights Working Group in Leipzig, Germany
Adrian Kolano, editor-in-chief at European Foreign Affairs, Poland
Christiane Körner, literary translator, Germany
Oksana Kozlova, lecturer in Russian, faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication – ULB, Belgium
Volodymyr Kravchenko, professor, department of history, director of the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Programs, CIUS, University of Alberta, Canada
Bertrand Lambolez, professor of Neuroscience Paris Seine, director of research INSERM, France
Gérard Lauton, honorary senior lecturer, applied mathematics, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France
Sylvie Lindeperg,professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and emeritus member of the Institut Universitaire de France
Jonathan Littell, writer, Prix Goncourt, France
Frédérique Longuet Marx, anthropologist, France
Orysia Lutsevych, deputy director, Russia and Eurasia, head of the Ukraine Forum, Chatham House, UK
Jacobo Machover, Cuban writer exiled in France, former senior lecturer at University of Avignon, France
Luigi Marinelli, professor of literature, department of European, American and Intercultural Studies, ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome, Italy
Marie Martin, lecturer in film studies, University of Poitiers, France
Eric Marty, writer and professor emeritus, University of Paris, member of the IUF, France
Alain Maskens, physician, oncologist, founder and former medical coordinator of the European Organization for Cooperation in Cancer Prevention Studies (ECP), Belgium
Marie Matheron, actress, France
Alexandre Melnik, professor at ICN Business School, expert and consultant in geopolitics, France
Marc-Emmanuel Mélon, professor, faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Liège, Belgium
Aude Merlin, senior lecturer, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Yevhenii Monastyrskyi, PhD student, Department of History, Harvard University, USA
Alexander Motyl, professor of political science, Rutgers University-Newark, USA
Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, anthropologist, researcher at EHESS, Centre Edgar Morin, France
Boris Najman, associate professor and researcher in Economics at University Paris East Créteil, France
Laure Neumayer, professor of political science, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France
Olevs Nikers, president of the Baltic Security Foundation, Latvia
Elena A. Nikulina, analyst of Ukrainian/Russian affairs, Ukraine/Germany
James Nixey, director of Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, UK
Alexis Nuselovici, professor of general and comparative literature at the University of Aix-Marseille, France
Lydia Obolensky, professor of Russian language and literature, Belgium
Doris Pack, president of EPP Women, president of the Robert Schuman Institute, former member of the European Parliament and the Bundestag, Germany
Carmelo Palma, journalist, director of Strade-on-line, Italy
Filipe Papança, professor at the Military Academy (Amadora), Portugal
Anne-Marie Pelletier, academic, theologian, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, Ratzinger Prize 2014, France
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, professor, Northwestern University and Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, USA
Serhii Plokhii, professor of History, Harvard University, USA
Antony Polonsky, emeritus professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University, USA
Elena Poptodorova, vice president of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, former Ambassador to the USA, former member of the Bulgarian Parliament, Bulgaria
Bohdan Prots, associate professor, Danube-Carpathian programme and State Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
Eva Quistorp, theologian, writer, former member of the European Parliament, Berlin, Germany
Utz Rachowski, writer and former political prisoner in East-Germany, Germany
Pierre Raiman, doctoral student in contemporary history at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, secretary of “Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre !”, France
Philippe Robert-Demontrond, professor at the University of Rennes 1, France
Christian Rocca, Linkiesta editorial director, Italy
François Roelants du Vivier, former member of the European Parliament, former senator, Belgium
Sylvie Rollet, emeritus professor, chairwoman of “Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre !”, France
Avita Ronell, university professor of German and comparative literature, New York University, USA
Nanou Rousseau, honorary president of the Federation of Mothers for Peace, France
Malkhaz Saldadze, associate professor at Ilia State University, Georgia
Andrei Sannikov, chairman of the European Belarus Foundation, deputy foreign Minister of Belarus (1995-1996), presidential candidate 2010, former prisoner of consciousness, Belarus
Ulrich Schmölcke, senior researcher at the ZBSA, Schleswig, Germany
Myroslav Shkandrij, professor emeritus Ukrainian literature and language, University of Manitoba, Canada
Giovanna Siedina, professor of Russian and Ukrainian literature, University of Verona, Italy
Vasile Simileanu, director of GeoPolitica Magazine, Romania
Wally Struys, professor emeritus, defence economist, Royal Military Academy, Belgium
Malvina Tedgui, psychoanalyst, France
Patrizia Tosini, associate professor of history of Modern Art, Roma Tre University, Italy
Greta Uehling, PhD, teaching professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Cécile Vaissié, professor of Russian and soviet studies at the Université Rennes 2, Head of the Russian Department, France
Maïrbek Vatchagaev, Chechen historian and political analyst of the North Caucasus at the Jamestown Foundation, co-editor of the journal “Caucasus Survey”
Emmanuel Wallon, emeritus professor of political sociology, France
Charlie Weimers, member of the European Parliament, Sweden
Miroslav Žiak, former member of Parliament, Slovakia
Othar Zourabichvili, president of the Georgian Association in France
Appeal promoted by the Association “Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre”, Paris
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