Erdogan: Zelensky wants nuclear mines removed
Ukraine nuclear power plant operator “Russia plans to shut down Zaporiza nuclear power plant in Ukraine’s power grid”
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ji-yeon Kim = President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkiye (Turkey), who has acted as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia, has expressed his will to resolve the issue of demilitarization of the Zaporiza nuclear power plant.
According to Archyde.com on the 19th (local time), Erdogan told reporters that the day before he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Lviv, western Ukraine, and that he would speak directly with the Russian side on the matter on the return flight.
Erdogan said: “President Zelensky emphasized that Russia must clear all landmines (in the Zaporiza nuclear power plant area),” he said.
“I will ask Russia to do what it has to do as an important step towards world peace,” he said.
President Erdogan, who visited Ukraine for the first time the day before, met with President Zelensky and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to find a solution to the issue of war.
At this meeting, President Erdogan expressed concern over the Zaporiza nuclear power plant problem, saying he did not want to repeat the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
The Russian army occupied the Zaporiza nuclear power plant in March, the early stage of the war, and steadily deployed weapons and troops, and deployed anti-personnel mines and large-caliber self-propelled artillery.
Since this month, large and small artillery shells of unknown identity have been fired around the nuclear power plant, and both sides have returned responsibility to the other side. In particular, on this day, both sides predicted that there would be an attack in which the other was the main agent at the nuclear power plant.
There are concerns that an irreversible ‘catastrophe’ such as the Chernobyl disaster might occur if the nuclear power plant facilities were destroyed in the course of a military conflict.
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Meanwhile, Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear power plant operator Energoatom said it had information that the Russian military plans to cut off the Zaporiza nuclear power plant complex from the Ukrainian power grid.
“The Russian military is currently looking for a fuel supplier to run the diesel generators,” the company said. did.
If the nuclear power plant is cut off from the Ukrainian power grid, it might put a strain on energy supply mainly in southern Ukraine, where the Zaporiza region is located.
The Japoriza nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe as a single complex, has a total of six reactors, of which only two are currently in operation.
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