The head of Ukraine’s nuclear agency Energoatom called on Monday for the creation of a “demilitarized zone” at the site of the bomb-hit Zaporizhia nuclear power plant for which Kyiv and Moscow are claiming responsibility.
“What needs to be done is to remove the occupants from the territory of the power plant and create a demilitarized zone,” Petro Kotin said in a video posted on Energoatom’s Telegram page.
“There should be a peacekeeping mission that also includes experts from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and other security organizations,” he continued, considering that the presence of the Russian army in the area “creates the greatest danger for the future”. , a radiation accident or even a nuclear disaster.
occupied by the Russians
He also accused the IAEA of having “a very soft reaction” since the Russian army seized the site in March. According to him, the Zaporizhia power plant, the largest in Ukraine and Europe, is occupied by “about 500 soldiers and 50 heavy vehicles, tanks and trucks.”
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday that the latest attack, which occurred overnight from Saturday to Sunday, damaged a high-voltage line that supplies electricity to two regions of Ukraine. On Saturday, a reactor was shut down after being targeted by strikes.
According to Petro Kotin, two Ukrainian employees of the plant were injured in these strikes. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stressed on Monday that “any attack on nuclear power plants is something suicidal.”
Source: BFM TV
