War in Ukraine, Kiev presses for an immediate ceasefire to prevent the approach of the occupation forces at a distance of less than 30 km from nuclear power plants
Ukraine calls on the International Atomic Safety Agency (IAEA) to ask NATO to close access to the airspace above its nuclear facilities and to step up its efforts. “to prevent nuclear terrorism“, reason – according to Kiev – why the Russian Federation occupied the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl and the Exclusion Zone.
“In order to bring the situation regarding the safety of the plants back into the legal field nuclear on the site of Chernobyl and in the Exclusion Zone, we urge urgent and decisive action to address the IAEA’s request to NATO to establish an A2 / AD (Anti Access / Area Denial) zone on the territory of Ukraine by holding account of the risks and geography of the location “of the country’s nuclear plants. The appeals were signed by the Minister ofEnergy Herman Galushchenkoby the head of the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation Oleg Korikov and the head of “Energoatom” Petro Kotin.
According to the text of the appeal, the representatives of Ukraine also insist on the actions of the IAEA to press on immediate ceasefire and prevent the approach of the occupation forces at a distance of less than 30 km from nuclear power plants, which in Ukraine are four. “The fact of the occupation of the nuclear power plant of Chernobylfamous all over the world, it has all the hallmarks of an act of nuclear terrorism committed against the nuclear plants of Chernobyl and its personnel by Russian military units “, reads the note whose signatories underline that the personnel of the plant, kept to work without rotation by the Russian army for the seventh day, are subjected to psychological pressures and exhaustion and, with all the risks that such a situation could follow.
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