Kyiv’s state-owned atomic energy company sees signs of imminent withdrawal that would put the facility in the hands of the IAEA
New activity around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. The troops guarding the facilities have received materials in recent hours to likely mine the plant’s territory, signals previously repeated at Moscow-controlled sites just before leaving them, state operator Petro Kotin said on Sunday. of Ukraine’s atomic energy, Energoatom, according to the communication portal ‘Kyiv Independent’.
The situation in Zaporizhia has alerted the international community since early March, when Moscow took control and used the factory as a base during the nine-month war. Continued bombing around the plant has fueled fears of a nuclear catastrophe like the one that occurred at Chernobyl in 1986. World leaders have called for not only a cessation of fighting but also the removal of Russian soldiers from the nuclear facility. Everything points to his wish coming true soon.
Referring to Russian media, Kotin stressed that once the Kremlin leaves Zaporizhia, control could be transferred to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an entity that discovered more than a dozen explosions near the plant on the 20th.
Meanwhile, attacks continue on various positions at the front. Kherson governor Yaroslav Yanushevich denounced that Russia has bombed the region 54 times this day, “deliberately” targeting civilian infrastructure (residential buildings, a garage and an educational institution, as well as several villages). The “terrorist tactics” caused the death of one civilian and injured two, including a child. And in Donetsk, the Kremlin attacks left seven dead and nineteen injured, all civilians. In addition, Moscow announced the death of a hundred “foreign mercenaries” in this region during the final offensive.
While the missiles fall in some areas, others are recovering from the most recent attacks. Such as Kiev, whose authorities announced that the supply of water, gas and electricity has today been “almost fully” restored after the latest wave of bombing in the capital. The repair work in the systems is already in its final phase and the electricity producers cover almost 80% of the national consumption.
But the war is not over and there are fears that Moscow will attack critical infrastructure again. In this sense, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg denounced that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to use “winter as a weapon” to attack these systems. A significant drop in temperature is announced for next week, which can reach twenty degrees below zero.
Cruelty is thus on the rise in a confrontation in which numerous rapes have taken place, as denounced today by the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, who stated that this type of aggression, like the use of chemical weapons, is a “red line” should form “. A situation that is also repeated in other countries at war such as Yemen and Iraq. “These acts are abominable and cannot go unpunished,” he stated.
Source: La Verdad
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