Ukraine must carry out proper crisis communication, given the fact that Russia's goal in seizing nuclear plants is to sow panic, and it finds its addressees, in particular, in Germany. This was stated by DW nuclear energy expert Anna Veronica Wendland.

The expert emphasized that during the military operations of Russia against Ukraine, the third nuclear facility of Ukraine came under fire - after the Chernobyl and Zaporozhye nuclear power plants, on the night of March 10-11, the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, where the experimental nuclear facility is located, was shelled. One of the goals of attacks on nuclear facilities is to sow panic and damage international solidarity with the people of Ukraine..

" And we succeeded,"

Further, according to her, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba and President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke in the most alarming terms about the most serious dangers - the threat of an accident that would be six times greater than the Chernobyl explosion..

" All this is understandable, but leaders of countries should know that this is the wrong crisis communication.. This only worsens the situation - the only result they have achieved is that in the morning in Germany people began to ask for iodine tablets in pharmacies,"

As a result, such rhetoric reduced the feeling of international solidarity, at least in countries such as Germany, she said..

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At the same time, she stressed that it is not so easy to disable nuclear power plants..

" Nuclear power plants are designed to provide several levels of safety, or, in professional jargon, " These are smart systems that are not so easy to disable,"

Also, she pointed out that the layman is not able to assess such professional risks soberly.. And the panic in Germany is built precisely on such a philistine panic.

" Chernobyl accident (in 1986 - Red. ) - although it had consequences for Germany, it was not catastrophic. But to cause panic among the Germans - that was enough. That is why proper crisis communication is so important,"