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As the war in Ukraine continues at full speed, the announcement that the world has been waiting for has just come. Moscow broke its silence after repeated warnings for the Russian-occupied nuclear power plant.
The eyes and ears of the world have been on the news from the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant for a while.
Because after Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhia, is in the middle of conflicts, there is a nuclear alarm, so to speak.
Yesterday, President After the summit in Lviv, which Erdogan also attended, Zelenski said that he accepted the parameters of a potential mission to Zaporizhia by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
After this statement of the leader of Ukraine, eyes RussiaConverted to .
RUSSIA ANNOUNCED: IT IS NOT AN OPTION AT THIS STAGE
While the warnings that a possible accident in the region could lead to a nuclear disaster continue, the first statement about Zaporizhia from the Moscow front has just come.
Russia has rejected demands for complete disarmament of the area around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine.
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The statement came from the Deputy Spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ivan Nechayev.
According to the news in the BBC, the Russian official said that disarming the region would make the facility more vulnerable.
BOTH SIDES BAD EACH OTHER
Stating that the disarmament of the region is ‘not an option at this stage’, Nechayev reiterated his claim that Ukraine could sign on to provocations.
The Ukrainian side accuses Russia of using the facility as a military shield.
ZELENSKI: THEY HAVE BEEN A SPECIFIC TARGET
Making this claim, Zelensky said, “Every Russian soldier who shoots using the facility as a cover must understand that it has become a special target for our intelligence agents, special services and military.”
WHY IS THIS POWER PLANT IMPORTANT?
Built between 1984 and 1995, the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is Europe’s largest and the world’s ninth largest nuclear power plant.
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The plant, which has six reactors producing 950 MW each and a total output of 5,700 MW, produces a quarter of Ukraine’s energy.
The plant is located in Enerhodar in Southeast Ukraine, on the banks of the Kakhovka reservoir on the Dnieper river.
The nuclear power plant is located about 200 kilometers from the Donbas region and 550 kilometers southeast of Kiev.
IT COST TEN THOUSANDS OF LIVES
On April 26, 1986, the city of Chernobyl, 130 kilometers north of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, which was part of the Soviet Union at that time, witnessed one of the most terrible environmental disasters in human history.
The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat released an amount of radiation equal to 50 times the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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After the explosion, clouds full of radioactive material affected many countries, including Turkey, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster caused the death of approximately 200,000 people directly or indirectly, according to some independent studies.
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